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The redshifted $21$\,cm signal of neutral hydrogen can be used as a direct probe of the intergalactic medium during Cosmic Dawn\,(CD) and Epoch of Reionization\,(EoR). However, detecting this inherently weak signal has numerous challenges.…

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Stellar intensity interferometers correlate photons within their coherence time and could overcome the baseline limitations of existing amplitude interferometers. Intensity interferometers do not rely on phase coherence of the optical…

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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…

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 investigate the use of closure phase as a method to detect the HI 21cm signal from the neutral IGM during cosmic reionzation. Closure quantities have the unique advantage of being independent of antenna-based calibration terms. We employ…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-04 C. L. Carilli , P. Sims

A radio interferometer uses time delays to maximize its response to radiation coming from a particular direction. These time delays compensate for differences in the time of arrival of the wavefront at the different elements of the…

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Numerous experiments have been designed to investigate the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) by examining redshifted 21-cm emissions from neutral hydrogen. Detecting the global spectrum of redshifted 21-cm signals is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Feiyu Zhao , Quan Guo , Qian Zheng , Ruxi Liang , Pengfei Zhang , Yajun Wu , Junhua Gu , Zhao Yang , Yun Yu , Yan Huang , Tianyang Liu

We investigate the possibility of probing the large scale structure in the universe at large redshifts by studying fluctuations in the redshifted 1420 MHz emission from the neutral hydrogen (HI) at early epochs. The neutral hydrogen content…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Somnath Bharadwaj , Shiv K. Sethi

Drift scan observations provide the broad sky coverage and instrumental stability needed to measure the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal. In such observations, the telescope's pointing center (PC) moves continuously on the sky. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Suman Chatterjee , Khandakar Md Asif Elahi , Somnath Bharadwaj , Shouvik Sarkar , Samir Choudhuri , Shiv Sethi , Akash Kumar Patwa

Detecting a signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) requires an exquisite understanding of galactic and extra-galactic foregrounds, low frequency radio instruments, instrumental calibration, and data analysis pipelines. In this work we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Ronniy C. Joseph , C. M. Trott , R. B. Wayth , A. Nasirudin

Current radio interferometers output multi-petabyte-scale volumes of data per year making the storage, transfer, and processing of this data a sizeable challenge. This challenge is expected to grow with the next-generation telescopes such…

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We introduce the Evolution of 21-cm Structure (EOS) project: providing periodic, public releases of the latest cosmological 21-cm simulations. 21-cm interferometry is set to revolutionize studies of the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig , Emanuele Sobacchi

A measurement of the 21-cm global signal would be a revealing probe of the Dark Ages, the era of first star formation, and the Epoch of Reionization. It has remained elusive owing to bright galactic and extra-galactic foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Yordan D. Ignatov , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Yuqing Wu

Detecting the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) is challenging due to the strong astrophysical foregrounds, ionospheric effects, radio frequency interference and instrumental effects. Understanding and calibrating these…

Simulated maps of the HI distribution in the post-reionization era are used to study the prospects for detection with existing and upcoming radio telescopes. We consider detection in the redshifted radiation from the hyperfine transition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Nishikanta Khandai , Kanan K. Datta , J. S. Bagla

CII line intensity mapping (LIM) is a potential technique to probe the early galaxies from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Several experiments e.g. CONCERTO, TIME, CCAT-p are underway to map the CII LIM signal fluctuations from the EoR,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-03 Chandra Shekhar Murmu , Suman Majumdar , Kanan K. Datta

The cross-correlation of the Ly-alpha forest and redshifted 21-cm emission has recently been proposed as an observational tool for mapping out the large-scale structures in the post-reionization era z < 6. This has a significant advantage…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-06 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj

A detection of the 21 cm signal can provide a unique window of opportunity for uncovering complex astrophysical phenomena at the epoch of reionization and placing constraints on cosmology at high redshifts, which are usually elusive to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Danial Baradaran , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Martin J. White , Noah Sailer

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…

The radio observation of 21\,cm-line signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) enables us to explore the evolution of galaxies and intergalactic medium in the early universe. However, the detection and imaging of the 21\,cm-line signal…

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