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The baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) prior to recombination should be imprinted onto the 21cm emission background from the epoch of reionization through the underlying density perturbations. Using an analytical approach for both matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Chun Mao , Xiang-Ping Wu

Using high redshift radio sources as background, the 21cm forest observations probe the neutral hydrogen absorption signatures of early structures along the lines of sight. Directly sensitive to the spin temperature, it complements the 21cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yidong Xu , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen

Cross-correlating 21cm with known cosmic signals will be invaluable proof of the cosmic origin of the first 21cm detections. As some of the widest fields available, comprising thousands of sources with reasonably known redshifts,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Caroline Heneka , Andrei Mesinger

Interferometry of the cosmic 21-cm signal is set to revolutionize our understanding of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), eventually providing 3D maps of the early Universe. Initial detections however will be low signal-to-noise, limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Emanuele Sobacchi , Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig

It has recently been suggested that the power spectrum of redshifted 21cm fluctuations could be used to measure the scale of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAOs) during the reionisation era. The resulting measurements are potentially as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Kirsty J. Rhook , Paul M. Geil , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Using a suite of detailed numerical simulations we estimate the level of anisotropy generated by the time evolution along the light cone of the 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization. Our simulations include the physics necessary to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 Karolina Zawada , Benoit Semelin , Patrick Vonlanthen , Sunghye Baek , Yves Revaz

We use hydrodynamics and radiative transfer simulations to study the 21~cm signal around a bright QSO at $z \sim 10$. Due to its powerful UV and X-ray radiation, the QSO quickly increases the extent of the fully ionized bubble produced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Qing-Bo Ma , Benedetta Ciardi , Koki Kakiichi , Saleem Zaroubi , Qi-Jun Zhi , Philipp Busch

Spatial dependence in the statistics of redshifted 21cm fluctuations promises to provide the most powerful probe of the reionisation epoch. In this paper we consider the second and third moments of the redshifted 21cm intensity distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Stuart Wyithe , Miguel Morales

The redshifted 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization carries invaluable information about the cosmology and astrophysics of the early Universe. Analyzing data from a sky-averaged 21-cm signal experiment requires…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Anchal Saxena , P. Daniel Meerburg , Christoph Weniger , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley

Reionization is thought to be dominated by low mass galaxies, while direct observations of resolved galaxies probe only the most massive, rarest objects. The cross-correlation between fluctuations in the surface brightness of the cumulative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Stuart Wyithe , Avi Loeb , Brian Schmidt

Direct detection of the Epoch of Reionization via the redshifted 21-cm line will have unprecedented implications on the study of structure formation in the early Universe. To fulfill this promise current and future 21-cm experiments will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 F. Mertens , A. Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans

Spectral measurements of the 21 cm monopole background have the promise of revealing the bulk energetic properties and ionization state of our universe from z ~ 6-30. Synchrotron foregrounds are orders of magnitude larger than the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 Eric R. Switzer , Adrian Liu

The bispectrum can quantify the non-Gussianity present in the redshifted 21-cm signal produced by the neutral hydrogen (HI) during the epoch of reionization (EoR). Motivated by this, we perform a comprehensive study of the EoR 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Suman Majumdar , Mohd Kamran , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Rajesh Mondal , Arindam Mazumdar , Somnath Bharadwaj , Garrelt Mellema

The redshifted 21 cm line signal is a powerful probe of the cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization. The global spectrum can potentially be detected with a single antenna and spectrometer. However, this measurement requires an extremely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Shijie Sun , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Fengquan Wu , Bin Yue , Jiacong Zhu , Xuelei Chen

Detections of the cross correlation signal between the 21cm signal during reionization and high-redshift Lyman Alpha emitters (LAEs) are subject to observational uncertainties which mainly include systematics associated with radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Anne Hutter , Cathryn M. Trott , Pratika Dayal

Detecting the cosmic 21-cm signal during the Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn will reveal insights into the properties of the first galaxies and advance cosmological parameter estimation. Until recently, the primary focus for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Bradley Greig , Yuan-Sen Ting , Alexander A. Kaurov

The redshifted 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization (EoR) directly probes the ionization and thermal states of the intergalactic medium during that period. In particular, the distribution of the ionized regions around the radiating…

We assess the effect of a population of high-redshift quasars on the 21-cm power spectrum during the epoch of reionisation. Our approach is to implement a semi-numerical scheme to calculate the three-dimensional structure of ionised regions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-24 Paul M. Geil , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

[ABRIDGED] The cosmological 21cm signal is set to become the most powerful probe of the early Universe, with first generation interferometers aiming to make statistical detections of reionization. There is increasing interest also in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-08 Andrei Mesinger , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Jacqueline Hewitt

Upper limits from the current generation of interferometers targeting the 21-cm signal from high redshifts have recently begun to rule out physically realistic, though still extreme, models of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). While…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Jordan Mirocha , Julian B. Muñoz , Steven R. Furlanetto , Adrian Liu , Andrei Mesinger