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The Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Signal (EDGES) has reported evidence for an absorption feature in the sky-averaged radio background near 78 MHz. A cosmological interpretation of this signal corresponds to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Alexandra Nelander , Christopher Cain , Jordan C J DSilva , Peter H Sims , Rogier A Windhorst , Judd D Bowman

We are approaching a new era to probe the 21-cm neutral hydrogen signal from the period of cosmic dawn. This signal offers a unique window to the virgin Universe, e.g., to study dark matter models with different small-scale behaviours. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-21 Venno Vipp , Andi Hektor , Gert Hütsi

The EDGES experiment recently announced evidence for a broad absorption feature in the sky-averaged radio spectrum around 78 MHz, as may result from absorption in the 21 cm line by neutral hydrogen at z~15-20. If confirmed, one implication…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Adam Lidz , Lam Hui

The birth of the first luminous sources and the ensuing epoch of reionization are best studied via the redshifted 21-cm emission line, the signature of the first two imprinting the last. In this work we present a fully-Bayesian method,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 G. Bernardi , J. T. L. Zwart , D. Price , L. J. Greenhill , A. Mesinger , J. Dowell , T. Eftekhari , S. W. Ellingson , J. Kocz , F. Schinzel

The dark ages 21-cm signal is a powerful tool for precision cosmology and probing new physics. We study two non-standard models: an excess radio background (ERB) model (possibly generated by dark matter decay) and the millicharged dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-09 Rajesh Mondal , Rennan Barkana , Anastasia Fialkov

The cosmic radio-frequency spectrum is expected to show a strong absorption signal corresponding to the 21-centimetre-wavelength transition of atomic hydrogen around redshift 20, which arises from Lyman-alpha radiation from some of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-20 Rennan Barkana

The recent detection of the 21-cm absorption signal by the EDGES collaboration has been widely used to constrain the basic properties of dark matter particles. However, extracting the parameters of the 21-cm absorption signal relies on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-05 Anton Rudakovskyi , Denys Savchenko , Maksym Tsizh

The recent detection of the "cosmic dawn" redshifted 21 cm signal at 78 MHz by the EDGES experiment differs significantly from theoretical predictions. In particular, the absorption trough is roughly a factor of two stronger than the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Jayce Dowell , Greg B. Taylor

Any particle dark matter (DM) scenario featuring a suppressed power spectrum of astrophysical relevance results in a delay of galaxy formation. As a consequence, such scenarios can be constrained using the global 21-cm absorption signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Aurel Schneider

We use the sky-average spectrum measured by EDGES High-Band ($90-190$ MHz) to constrain parameters of early galaxies independent of the absorption feature at $78$~MHz reported by Bowman et al. (2018). These parameters represent traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Raul A. Monsalve , Bradley Greig , Judd D. Bowman , Andrei Mesinger , Alan E. E. Rogers , Thomas J. Mozdzen , Nicholas S. Kern , Nivedita Mahesh

EDGES-3 is the third iteration of the EDGES experiment, designed to measure the predicted global absorption feature in the radio spectrum produced by neutral hydrogen gas at cosmic dawn, a critical observation determining when and how the…

Observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal (in absorption or emission) allow us to peek into the epoch of "dark ages" and the onset of reionization. These data can provide a novel way to learn about the nature of dark matter, in particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Alexey Boyarsky , Dmytro Iakubovskyi , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Anton Rudakovskyi , Wessel Valkenburg

The 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen is a sensitive probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn. Currently operating radio telescopes have ushered in a data-driven era of 21-cm cosmology, providing the first constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Aviad Cohen , Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana , Raul Monsalve

We investigate the impact of the recent observation of the 21cm global signal by EDGES on primordial power spectrum, particularly focusing on the running parameters $\alpha_s$ and $ \beta_s$ which characterize the detailed scale dependence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Shintaro Yoshiura , Keitaro Takahashi , Tomo Takahashi

Measurement of the global 21-cm signal during Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is made difficult by bright foreground emission which is 2-5 orders of magnitude larger than the expected signal. Fitting for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Michael Pagano , Peter Sims , Adrian Liu , Dominic Anstey , Will Handley , Eloy De Lera Acedo

The recent observation of the 21-cm absorption signal by the EDGES experiment provides a new observational window into the dynamics of the young Universe. Based on this result, we constrain the properties of ALPs and excited dark matter via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-12 Andi Hektor , Gert Hütsi , Luca Marzola , Ville Vaskonen

Observations of the redshifted 21-cm line of atomic hydrogen have resulted in several upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum and a tentative detection of the sky-averaged signal at $z\sim17$. Made with the EDGES Low-Band antenna, this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 H. T. J. Bevins , A. Fialkov , E. de Lera Acedo , W. J. Handley , S. Singh , R. Subrahmanyan , R. Barkana

The dark ages 21-cm signal is a promising probe of the currently unobserved infant universe between the formation of the Cosmic Microwave Background around $z \approx 1100$ and the first galaxies around $z\approx 30$. A detection of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 H. T. J. Bevins

The EDGES Collaboration has reported an anomalously strong 21cm absorption feature corresponding to the era of first star formation, which may indirectly betray the influence of dark matter during this epoch. We demonstrate that, by virtue…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-19 Nick Houston , Chuang Li , Tianjun Li , Qiaoli Yang , Xin Zhang

Global (i.e. sky-averaged) $21$~cm signal experiments can measure the evolution of the universe from the Cosmic Dawn to the Epoch of Reionization. These measurements are challenged by the presence of bright foreground emission that can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Marta Spinelli , Gianni Bernardi , Mario G. Santos