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We consider the influence of decaying dark matter (DM) particles on the characteristics of 21 cm absorption in spectra of distant radio-loud sources - "21 cm forest" - from minihaloes with masses $M=10^5-10^7\msun$ virialized at $z_{vir} =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-08 E. O. Vasiliev , Yu. A. Shchekinov

Cosmological measurements of the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen are poised to dramatically enhance our understanding of the early universe. In particular, both the epochs of reionization and cosmic dawn remain largely uncharted, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Julian B. Muñoz , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

Long wavelength spectral distortions in the Cosmic Microwave Background arising from the 21-cm transition in neutral Hydrogen are a key probe of Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization. These features may reveal the nature of the first…

The existence of millicharged dark matter (mDM) can leave a measurable imprint on 21-cm cosmology through mDM-baryon scattering. However, the minimal scenario is severely constrained by existing cosmological bounds on both the fraction of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-25 Hongwan Liu , Nadav Joseph Outmezguine , Diego Redigolo , Tomer Volansky

The period between the creation of the cosmic microwave background at a redshift of ~1000 and the formation of the first stars and black holes that re-ionize the intergalactic medium at redshifts of 10-20 is currently unobservable. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 Dayton L. Jones , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Jack O. Burns

The redshifted 21-cm line of distant neutral H atoms provides a probe of the cosmic ``dark ages'' and the epoch of reionization (``EOR'') which ended them. The radio continuum produced by this redshifted line can be seen in absorption or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Ue-Li Pen , Hugh Merz

The nature of dark matter remains unknown, but upcoming measurements probing the high-redshift Universe may provide invaluable insight. In the presence of dark matter-baryon scattering, the suppression in the matter power spectrum and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Kathleen Short , José Luis Bernal , Kimberly K. Boddy , Vera Gluscevic , Licia Verde

We estimate the 21 cm Radio Background from accretion onto the first intermediate-mass Black Holes between $z\approx 30$ and $z\approx 16$. Combining potentially optimistic, but plausible, scenarios for black hole formation and growth with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 A. Ewall-Wice , T. -C. Chang , J. Lazio , O. Doré , M. Seiffert , R. A. Monsalve

The 21-cm signals from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization contain valuable information on cosmological structure formation dominated by dark matter. Measurements of the 21-cm power spectrum can thus probe certain dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Shihang Liu , Yilin Liu , Bowen Peng , Mengzhou Xie , Zelong Liu , Bohua Li , Yi Mao

The redshifted 21 cm line, arising from neutral hydrogen, offers a unique probe into the intergalactic medium and the first stars and galaxies formed in the early universe. However, detecting this signal is a challenging task because of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Shijie Sun , Jiaqin Xu , Minquan Zhou , Shenzhe Xu , Fengquan Wu , Haoran Zhang , Juyong Zhang , Bin Ma , Zhaohui Shang , Xuelei Chen

Observations of the 21-cm line from primordial hydrogen promise to be one of the best tools to study the early epochs of the Universe: the Dark Ages, the Cosmic Dawn, and the subsequent Epoch of Reionization. In 2018, the EDGES experiment…

Efforts are being made to observe the 21-cm signal from the 'cosmic dawn' using sky-averaged observations with individual radio dipoles. In this paper, we develop a model of the observations accounting for the 21-cm signal, foregrounds, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-26 Geraint J. A. Harker , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Jack O. Burns , Judd D. Bowman

The cosmic 21-cm line of hydrogen is expected to be measured in detail by the next generation of radio telescopes. The enormous dataset from future 21-cm surveys will revolutionize our understanding of early cosmic times. We present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 Sudipta Sikder , Rennan Barkana , Itamar Reis , Anastasia Fialkov

The 21-cm signal from cosmic dawn is a potentially sensitive probe of interactions between dark matter (DM) and baryons. We investigate the implications of the SARAS3 non-detection in the 55.5-84.4 MHz band for Coulomb-like interacting DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Shikhar Mittal , Prakhar Bansal , Harry Bevins , Saurabh Singh

Absorption or emission against the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) may be observed in the redshifted 21cm line if the spin temperature of the neutral intergalactic medium prior to reionization differs from the CMB temperature.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 Tiziana Di Matteo , Rosalba Perna , Tom Abel , Martin J. Rees

The feasibility of making highly redshifted HI 21-cm (rest frame) measurements from an early epoch of the Universe between the Dark Ages and Reionization (i.e., z>6 and nu<200 MHz) to probe the effects of feedback from the first stars and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Jack O. Burns

The EDGES experiment has detected the global absorption signal of 21 cm line at $z\sim17$ in cosmic dawn era and reported its amplitude larger than the standard cosmological prediction. One of the possible explanation requires that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Jitesh R. Bhatt , Arvind Kumar Mishra , Alekha C. Nayak

With the advent of the first luminous sources at Cosmic Dawn (CD), the redshifted 21-cm signal, from the neutral hydrogen in the Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM), is predicted to undergo a transition from absorption to emission against the CMB.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Mohd Kamran , Suman Majumdar , Raghunath Ghara , Garrelt Mellema , Somnath Bharadwaj , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Rajesh Mondal , Ilian T. Iliev

The potential use of the redshifted 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen for probing the epoch of reionization is motivating the construction of several low-frequency interferometers. There is also much interest in the possibility of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Jonathan R. Pritchard , Abraham Loeb

Nearly 50 years ago, the first radio signals from cosmic ray air showers were detected. After many successful studies, however, research ceased not even 10 years later. Only a decade ago, the field was revived with the application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tim Huege