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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…

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The prospect of detecting the first galaxies by observing their impact on the intergalactic medium as they reionized it during the first billion years leads us to ask whether such indirect observations are capable of diagnosing which types…

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A number of experiments are currently working towards a measurement of the 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization. Whether or not these experiments deliver a detection of cosmological emission, their limited sensitivity will prevent…

One of the key science goals for the most sensitive telescopes, both current and upcoming, is the detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization. The success of detection relies on accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Aishrila Mazumder , Arnab Chakraborty , Abhirup Datta , Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy , Yogesh Wadadekar , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

We consider the evolution of the sky-averaged 21 cm background during the early phases of structure formation. Using simple analytic models, we calculate the thermal and ionization histories, assuming that stellar photons dominate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven Furlanetto

Next-generation 21cm observations will enable imaging of reionization on very large scales. These images will contain more astrophysical and cosmological information than the power spectrum, and hence providing an alternative way to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-27 Sultan Hassan , Adrian Liu , Saul Kohn , James E. Aguirre , Paul La Plante , Adam Lidz

Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are galaxies that have been selected on the basis of a strong Ly{\alpha} emission line in their spectra. Observational campaigns have dramatically increased the sample of known LAEs, which now extends out to z=7.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Dijkstra , Stuart Wyithe

We model the transmission of the Lyman-alpha line through the circum- and intergalactic media around dark matter haloes expected to host Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) at z > 5.7, using the high-dynamic-range Sherwood simulations. We find very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 Lewis H. Weinberger , Girish Kulkarni , Martin G. Haehnelt , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Ewald Puchwein

Lyman $\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) emission is one of few observable features of galaxies that can trace the neutral hydrogen content in the Universe during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). To accomplish this we need an efficient way to survey for…

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

We have studied the possibility of measuring the cross-correlation of the redshifted HI 21-cm signal and the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest using an upcoming radio-interferometric array OWFA and an spectroscopic observation like SDSS-IV. Our results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Anjan Kumar Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

We present here 21 cm predictions from high dynamic range simulations for a range of reionization histories that have been tested against available Lyman-alpha and CMB data. We assess the observability of the predicted spatial 21 cm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-13 Girish Kulkarni , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Ewald Puchwein , Martin G. Haehnelt

We study the visibility of the Lyman Alpha (Lya) emission line during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Combining galactic outflow models with large-scale semi-numeric simulations of reionization, we quantify the probability distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mark Dijkstra , Andrei Mesinger , Stuart Wyithe

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) has garnered attention as a powerful cosmological probe, with next-generation instruments such as SPHEREx preparing to map the evolution of large-scale structure during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Mouza Almualla , Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Lars Hernquist , Enrico Garaldi , Adam Lidz , Kevin Lorinc , Jennifer Yik Ham Chan , Mark Vogelsberger

Deep surveys have recently discovered galaxies at the tail end of the epoch of reionization. In the near future, these discoveries will be complemented by a new generation of low-frequency radio observatories that will map the distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stuart Wyithe , Avi Loeb

The 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a powerful probe of the evolution of the Universe. However, accurate measurements of the EoR signal from radio interferometric observations are sensitive to efficient foreground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Madhurima Choudhury , Jonathan C. Pober

The 21 cm linear polarization due to Thomson scattering off free electrons can probe the distribution of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium during the epoch of reionization, complementary to the 21 cm temperature fluctuations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Bohua Li , Jianrong Tan , Yi Mao

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

Tomographic intensity mapping of the HI using the redshifted 21 cm observations opens up a new window towards our understanding of cosmological background evolution and structure formation. This is a key science goal of several upcoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 T. Guha Sarkar , K. K. Datta , A. K. Pal , T. Roy Choudhury , S. Bharadwaj

We discuss the feasibility of the detection of the 21cm forest in the diffuse IGM with the radio telescope LOFAR. The optical depth to the 21cm line has been derived using simulations of reionization which include detailed radiative…