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We study the spherically averaged bispectrum of the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). This metric provides a quantitative measurement of the level of non-Gaussianity of the signal which is expected to be high. We focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Rajesh Mondal , Garrelt Mellema , Abinash Kumar Shaw , Mohd Kamran , Suman Majumdar

The 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen - emitted during the Epoch of Reionization - promises to be an important source of information for the study of the infant universe. However, its detection is impossible without sufficient mitigation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 A. Mouri Sardarabadi , L. V. E. Koopmans

The global 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts $z \sim 6-30$, probes the nature of first sources of radiation as well as physics of the Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM). Given that the signal is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Saurabh Singh , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N. Udaya Shankar , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , B. S. Girish , A. Raghunathan , R. Somashekar , K. S. Srivani

At the beginning of the reionization epoch, radiation sources produce fluctuations in the redshifted 21-cm background. We show that different types of sources (such as miniquasars, Pop II and III stars, supernovae, etc.) produce distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Leonid Chuzhoy , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro

We consider the degree to which "21 cm tomography" of the high-redshift Universe can distinguish different ionization histories. Using a new analytic model for the size distribution of HII regions that associates these ionized bubbles with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Steven Furlanetto , Matias Zaldarriaga , Lars Hernquist

The 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen is a sensitive probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn. Currently operating radio telescopes have ushered in a data-driven era of 21-cm cosmology, providing the first constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Aviad Cohen , Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana , Raul Monsalve

21 cm intensity mapping has emerged as a promising technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe, at redshifts $z$ from 1 to 10. Unfortunately, many of the key cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen , Yu Yu , Xuelei Chen

The process of heating and reionization of the Universe at high redshift links small scale structures/galaxy formation and large scale inter-galactic medium properties. Even if the first one is difficult to observe, an observation window is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 Nicolas J. F. Gillet , Dominique Aubert , Florent G. Mertens , Pierre Ocvirk

One of the most promising approaches for studying reionization is to use the redshifted 21 cm line. Early generations of redshifted 21 cm surveys will not, however, have the sensitivity to make detailed maps of the reionization process, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthew Malloy , Adam Lidz

The 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a powerful probe of the evolution of the Universe. However, accurate measurements of the EoR signal from radio interferometric observations are sensitive to efficient foreground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Madhurima Choudhury , Jonathan C. Pober

Spectral distortions in the cosmic microwave background over the 40--200~MHz band are imprinted by neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium prior to the end of reionization. This signal, produced in the redshift range $z = 6-34$ at the…

We study the behavior of internal signal chain reflections and antenna cross coupling as systematics for 21 cm cosmological surveys. We outline the mathematics for how these systematics appear in interferometric visibilities and describe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-28 Nicholas S. Kern , Aaron R. Parsons , Joshua S. Dillon , Adam E. Lanman , Nicolas Fagnoni , Eloy de Lera Acedo

The redshifted 21 cm line is an emerging tool in cosmology, in principle permitting three-dimensional surveys of our Universe that reach unprecedentedly large volumes, previously inaccessible length scales, and hitherto unexplored epochs of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Adrian Liu , J. Richard Shaw

We discuss low frequency radio astronomy from the moon, predominantly in the context of studying the neutral intergalactic medium during cosmic reionization using the HI 21cm line of neutral hydrogen. The epoch of reionization is the next…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. L. Carilli , J. N. Hewitt , A. Loeb

The 21cm background from the epoch of reionization is a promising cosmological probe: line-of-sight velocity fluctuations distort redshift, so brightness fluctuations in Fourier space depend upon angle, which linear theory shows can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Paul R. Shapiro , Yi Mao , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Kanan K. Datta , Kyungjin Ahn , Jun Koda

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation and the 21 cm line fluctuations are powerful probes of cosmological reionisation. We study how the cross-correlation between the CMB polarisation (E-modes) and the 21 cm line fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Marian Douspis , Saleem Zaroubi

Measurement of the spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen via the redshifted 21 cm line promises to revolutionize our knowledge of the epoch of reionization and the first galaxies, and may provide a powerful new tool for observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Miguel F. Morales , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

The designs of the first generation of cosmological 21-cm observatories are split between single dipole experiments which integrate over a large patch of sky in order to find the global (spectral) signature of reionization, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Jonathan M. Bittner , Abraham Loeb

A possible way to study the reionization of cosmic hydrogen is by observing the large ionized regions (bubbles) around bright individual sources, e.g., quasars, using the redshifted 21 cm signal. It has already been shown that matched…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Raghunath Ghara , T. Roy Choudhury

The EoR 21-cm signal is expected to become highly non-Gaussian as reionization progresses. This severely affects the error-covariance of the EoR 21-cm power spectrum which is important for predicting the prospects of a detection with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-14 Rajesh Mondal , Somnath Bharadwaj , Suman Majumdar