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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

Twenty-one-centimetre signals from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are expected to be detected in the low-frequency radio window by the next-generation interferometers, particularly the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). However, precision data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Chenxi Shan , Haiguang Xu , Yongkai Zhu , Yuanyuan Zhao , Sarah V. White , Jack L. B. Line , Dongchao Zheng , Zhenghao Zhu , Dan Hu , Zhongli Zhang , Xiangping Wu

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency (SKA-Low) interferometer will have the required sensitivity to detect the 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). In preparation, we investigated the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 E. Jong , C. Trott , C. D. Nunhokee , Q. Zheng

We introduce the Structured Knowledge Accumulation (SKA) framework, which reinterprets entropy as a dynamic, layer-wise measure of knowledge alignment in neural networks. Instead of relying on traditional gradient-based optimization, SKA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Bouarfa Mahi Quantiota

During the Epoch of reionisation, the intergalactic medium is reionised by the UV radiation from the first generation of stars and galaxies. One tracer of the process is the 21 cm line of hydrogen that will be observed by the Square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Julien Hiegel , Emilie Thélie , Dominique Aubert , Jonathan Chardin , Nicolas Gillet , Pierre Galois , Nicolas Mai , Pierre Ocvirk , Rodrigo Ibata

The cosmic 21 cm signal is set to revolutionise our understanding of the early Universe, allowing us to probe the 3D temperature and ionisation structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM). It will open a window onto the unseen first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope marks a significant step forward in radio astronomy, presenting new opportunities and challenges for data analysis. Traditional visual models pretrained on optical photography images may…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 Thomas Cecconello , Simone Riggi , Ugo Becciani , Fabio Vitello , Andrew M. Hopkins , Giuseppe Vizzari , Concetto Spampinato , Simone Palazzo

The Largest Cluster Statistics\,(LCS) analysis of the redshifted 21\,cm maps has been demonstrated to be an efficient and robust method for following the time evolution of the largest ionized regions\,(LIRs) during the Epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Samit Kumar Pal , Saswata Dasgupta , Abhirup Datta , Suman Majumdar , Satadru Bag , Prakash Sarkar

Conventional seismic techniques for detecting the subsurface geologic features are challenged by limited data coverage, computational inefficiency, and subjective human factors. We developed a novel data-driven geological feature detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Youzuo Lin , Shusen Wang , Jayaraman Thiagarajan , George Guthrie , David Coblentz

We explore methods for robust estimation of the 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). A Kernel Density Estimator (KDE) is introduced for measuring the spatial temperature fluctuation power spectrum from the EoR. The KDE…

21 cm Epoch of Reionization observations promise to transform our understanding of galaxy formation, but these observations are impossible without unprecedented levels of instrument calibration. We present end-to-end simulations of a full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-09 N. Barry , B. Hazelton , I. Sullivan , M. F. Morales , J. C. Pober

Future observations of 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen survey will become a promising approach to probe the large scale structure of Universe. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of Square Kilometer Array (SKA) 21 cm observation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 Jing-Fei Zhang , Li-Yang Gao , Dong-Ze He , Xin Zhang

During the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), the ultraviolet radiation from the first stars and galaxies ionised the neutral hydrogen of the intergalactic medium, which can emit radiation through its 21 cm hyperfine transition. This 21 cm signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Ivelin Georgiev , Adélie Gorce , Garrelt Mellema

The 21cm line brightness temperature brings rich information about Epoch of Reionizaton (EoR) and high-$z$ universe (Cosmic Dawn and Dark Age). While the power spectrum is a useful tool to investigate the EoR signal statistically,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shintaro Yoshiura , Hayato Shimabukuro , Keitaro Takahashi , Rieko Momose , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Hiroshi Imai

We use the Fisher matrix formalism and semi-numerical simulations to derive quantitative predictions of the constraints that power spectrum measurements on next-generation interferometers, such as the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-26 Aaron Ewall-Wice , Jacqueline Hewitt , Andrei Mesinger , Joshua S. Dillon , Adrian Liu , Jonathan Pober

A first statistical detection of the 21-cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is on the horizon, as cosmological volumes of the Universe become accessible via the adoption of low-frequency interferometers. We explore the impact which non-identical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 A. Chokshi , N. Barry , J. L. B. Line , C. H. Jordan , B. Pindor , R. L. Webster

Precise instrument calibration is critical to the success of 21 cm Cosmology experiments. Unmitigated errors in calibration contaminate the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) signal, precluding a detection. Barry et al. 2016 characterizes one…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Ruby Byrne , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna Hazelton , Wenyang Li , Nichole Barry , Adam P. Beardsley , Ronniy Joseph , Jonathan Pober , Ian Sullivan , Cathryn Trott

In this paper, we propose a novel method to recover the 21cm global signal from the 21cm power spectrum using artificial neural networks (ANNs). The 21cm global signal is crucial for understanding cosmic evolution from the Dark Ages through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hayato Shimabukuro

Due to the non-linear ionizing and heating processes, the 21-cm signals from epoch of reionization (EoR) are expected to have strong non-Gaussian fluctuations. In this paper, we use the semi-numerical simulations to study the non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Qing-Bo Ma , Ling Peng

We quantitatively investigate the possibility of detecting baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) using single-dish 21cm intensity mapping observations in the post-reionization era. We show that the telescope beam smears out the isotropic BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , David Alonso , Matteo Viel