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Missions such as WMAP or Planck measure full-sky fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background and foregrounds, among which bright compact source emissions cover a significant fraction of the sky. To accurately estimate the diffuse…

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In observations of diffuse emissions like, e.g., the Lyman-$\alpha$ heliospheric glow, contributions to the observed signal from point sources (e.g., stars) are considered as a contamination. There are relatively few brightest point sources…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Marek Strumik , Maciej Bzowski , Izabela Kowalska-Leszczynska , Marzena A. Kubiak

We present a code to generate mock observations of 21 cm intensity mapping experiments. The emphasis of the code is on reducing the computational cost of running a full-blown simulation, trading computational time for accuracy. The code can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 David Alonso , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos

Direct photometric measurements of the cosmic optical background (COB) provide an important point of comparison to both other measurement methodologies and models of cosmic structure formation, and permit a cosmic consistency test with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Teresa Symons , Michael Zemcov , Asantha Cooray , Carey Lisse , Andrew R. Poppe

We present an all-sky map of the synchrotron spectral index and curvature between 45 and 2300 MHz at a resolution of 1 degree calculated from a combination of numerous partial sky empirical measurements. We employ a least-squares parametric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Melis O. Irfan , Giuseppe Puglisi

We present an investigation of the horizon and its effect on global 21-cm observations and analysis. We find that the horizon cannot be ignored when modeling low frequency observations. Even if the sky and antenna beam are known exactly,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Neil Bassett , David Rapetti , Keith Tauscher , Bang D. Nhan , David D. Bordenave , Joshua J. Hibbard , Jack O. Burns

21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionisation is gravitationally lensed by material at all lower redshifts. Low-frequency radio observations of this emission can be used to reconstruct the projected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Stefan Hilbert , R. Benton Metcalf , S. D. M. White

The 21 cm spectral line emission of atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) is one of the primary wavelengths observed in radio astronomy. However, the signal is intrinsically faint and the HI content of galaxies depends on the cosmic environment,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 J. A. Barkai , M. A. W. Verheijen , E. T. Martínez , M. H. F. Wilkinson

Modeling the hemispherical night sky brightness of anthropogenic origin is a demanding computational challenge, due to the intensive calculations required to produce all-sky maps with fine angular resolution including high-order scattering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Miroslav Kocifaj , Salvador Bará , Fabio Falchi

Building the radio sky template are crucial for detecting the 21 cm emission line signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), as well as for other cosmological research endeavors. Utilizing data from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Jinyang Lin , Zhenghao Zhu , Renyi Ma , Anna Bonaldi , Huanyuan Shan

With increasing amounts of data in astronomy, automated analysis methods have become crucial. Synthetic data are required for developing and testing such methods. Current simulations often suffer from insufficient detail or inaccurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Tobias Vičánek Martínez , Nicolás Barón Pérez , Marcus Brüggen

The all-sky 408 MHz map of Haslam et al. is one the most important total-power radio surveys. It has been widely used to study diffuse synchrotron radiation from our Galaxy and as a template to remove foregrounds in cosmic microwave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , A. J. Banday , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , T. Ghosh

Detecting and characterizing the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn via the redshifted 21-cm hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen will revolutionize the study of the formation of the first stars, galaxies, black holes and intergalactic gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 F. G. Mertens , A. Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans

To recover the 21 cm hydrogen line, it is essential to separate the cosmological signal from the much stronger foreground contributions at radio frequencies. The BINGO radio telescope is designed to measure the 21 cm line and detect BAOs…

The future of precision cosmology could benefit from cross-correlations between intensity maps of unresolved neutral hydrogen (HI) and more conventional optical galaxy surveys. A major challenge that needs to be overcome is removing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Steven Cunnington , Laura Wolz , Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon

Before it becomes a sensitive probe of the Epoch of Reionization, the Dark Ages, and fundamental physics, 21 cm tomography must successfully contend with the issue of foreground contamination. Broadband foreground sources are expected to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-16 Adrian Liu , Max Tegmark

We present a comprehensive analysis of the 21 cm intensity mapping (IM) data from the Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array (TCPA), focusing on multi-scale foreground mitigation and three-dimensional power spectrum estimation. Utilizing 20 days…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yikai Deng , Shifan Zuo , Jixia Li , Yougang Wang , Xuelei Chen

The next generation of cosmological spectroscopic sky surveys will probe the distribution of matter across several Gigaparsecs (Gpc) or many billion light-years. In order to leverage the rich data in these new maps to gain a better…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Cooper Jacobus , Roger de Belsunce , Solene Chabanier , Peter Harrington , JD Emberson , Zarija Lukić , Salman Habib

Light sources based on high-harmonic generation (HHG) underpin ultrafast spectroscopy experiments across a large range of photon energies, spanning from the extreme-ultraviolet to the soft x-ray. To this day their design, implementation and…

We use full sky simulations, including the effects of foreground contamination and removal, to explore multi-tracer synergies between a SKA-like 21cm intensity mapping survey and a LSST-like photometric galaxy redshift survey. In particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Amadeus Witzemann , David Alonso , José Fonseca , Mario G. Santos