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The epoch of reionization (EoR) sets a fundamental benchmark in cosmic structure formation, corresponding to the formation of the first luminous objects that act to ionize the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Recent observations at…

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Mapping out the first billion years using the 21-cm line with the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will revolutionize our understanding of the cosmic dawn, reionization and the galaxies that drove these milestones. However, synergies with other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Andrei Mesinger , Benedetta Ciardi , James E. Davies , Samuel Gagnon-Hartman , Valentina D'Odorico

We propose a deep learning analyzing technique with convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the evolutionary track of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) from the 21-cm differential brightness temperature tomography images. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yungi Kwon , Sungwook E. Hong , Inkyu Park

We propose a new method for feature learning and function estimation in supervised learning via regularised empirical risk minimisation. Our approach considers functions as expectations of Sobolev functions over all possible one-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-01 Bertille Follain , Francis Bach

The Square Kilometer array is expected to measure the 21cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in the coming decade, and its pathfinders may provide a statistical detection even earlier. The currently reported upper limits provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Romain Meriot , Benoit Semelin

In the next decade, radio telescopes like the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will explore the Universe at high redshift, and particularly during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). The first structures emerged during this epoch, and their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Emilie Thélie , Dominique Aubert , Nicolas Gillet , Julien Hiegel , Pierre Ocvirk

Neutral hydrogen (HI) serves as a crucial probe for the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Actual observations of the 21-cm signal often encounter challenges such as thermal noise and various systematic effects. To overcome…

The Square Kilometer Array will initiate a new era of radio astronomy by allowing 3D imaging of the Universe during Cosmic Dawn and Reionization. Modern machine learning is crucial to analyse the highly structured and complex signal.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Ayodele Ore , Caroline Heneka , Tilman Plehn

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn (CD) are pivotal stages during the first billion years of the universe, exerting a significant influence on the development of cosmic structure. The detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Anshuman Tripathi , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder , Suman Majumdar

Upcoming experiments will map the spatial distribution of the 21-cm signal over three-dimensional volumes of space during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Several methods have been proposed to mitigate the issue of astrophysical foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Jacob Kennedy , Jonathan Colaço Carr , Samuel Gagnon-Hartman , Adrian Liu , Jordan Mirocha , Yue Cui

The redshifted 21\,cm line is an emerging tool in observational cosmology that can serve as a direct probe of the intergalactic medium throughout the cosmic timeline. However, the observation of the cosmological 21\,cm signal from early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Samit Kumar Pal , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder , Anshuman Tripathi

The ability of the future low frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope (SKA-Low) to produce tomographic images of the redshifted 21-cm signal will enable direct studies of the evolution of the sizes and shapes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-06 Sambit K. Giri , Garrelt Mellema , Raghunath Ghara

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR), when the first luminous sources ionised the intergalactic medium, represents a new frontier in cosmology. The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will offer unprecedented insights into this era through…

The Cosmic Dawn was marked by the formation of the first stars, and preceded the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), when the Universe underwent a fundamental transformation caused by the radiation from these first stars and galaxies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Oscar Sage David O'Hara , Fred Dulwich , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Jiten Dhandha , Thomas Gessey-Jones , Dominic Anstey , Anastasia Fialkov

The Minkowski Functionals (MFs), a set of topological summary statistics, have emerged as a powerful tool for extracting non-Gaussian information. We investigate the prospect of constraining the reionization parameters using the MFs of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Kangning Diao , Zhaoting Chen , Xuelei Chen , Yi Mao

In the most distant reaches of the Universe, the 21-cm hyperfine transition in neutral hydrogen provides one of the only available tracers of large-scale structure. A number of instruments have been working and planned to measure the 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Teppei Minoda , Shohei Saga , Tomo Takahashi , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Daisuke Yamauchi , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Shintaro Yoshiura

Modern machine learning techniques can unlock the vast cosmological information encoded in forthcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) observations. We show that tomographic 21 cm data from the reionisation era can yield stringent tests of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Benedikt Schosser , Caroline Heneka , Björn Malte Schäfer

Concerted effort is currently ongoing to open up the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) ($z\sim$15-6) for studies with IR and radio telescopes. Whereas IR detections have been made of sources (Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters, quasars and drop-outs) in…

The 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization will be observed with the up-coming Square Kilometer Array (SKA). SKA should yield a full tomography of the signal which opens the possibility to explore its non-Gaussian properties. How can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Benoit Semelin , Romain Mériot , Ashutosh Mishra , David Cornu

The low-frequency component of the upcoming Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKA-Low) will be sensitive enough to construct 3D tomographic images of the 21-cm signal distribution during reionisation. However, foreground contamination…