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We conduct the first case study towards developing optimal foreground mitigation strategies for neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping using radio interferometers at low redshifts. A pipeline for simulation, foreground mitigation and power…

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Cross-correlating neutral hydrogen (HI) 21cm intensity mapping with galaxy surveys provides an effective probe of astrophysical and cosmological information. This work presents a cross-correlation analysis between MeerKAT single-dish HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Yu-Er Jiang , Yan Gong , Qi Xiong , Wenxiang Pei , Yun Liu , Furen Deng , Zi-yan Yuwen , Meng Zhang , Xingchen Zhou , Xuelei Chen , Yin-Zhe Ma , Qi Guo , Bin Yue

The 21-cm intensity mapping (IM) of neutral hydrogen (HI) is a promising tool to probe the large-scale structures. Sky maps of 21-cm intensities can be highly contaminated by different foregrounds, such as Galactic synchrotron radiation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Elimboto Yohana , Yin-Zhe Ma , Di Li , Xuelei Chen , Wei-Ming Dai

Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) presents great promise for future cosmological large-scale structure surveys. However, a major challenge for HIIM cosmological studies is to accurately subtract the foreground contamination. An…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Xinyang Zhao , Yichao Li , Wenxiu Yang , Furen Deng , Yougang Wang , Fengquan Wu , Xin Wang , Xiaohui Sun , Xin Zhang , Xuelei Chen

Upcoming 21-cm intensity surveys will use the hyperfine transition in emission to map out neutral hydrogen in large volumes of the universe. Unfortunately, large spatial scales are completely contaminated with spectrally smooth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Chirag Modi , Martin White , Anze Slosar , Emanuele Castorina

The deep learning technique has been employed in removing foreground contaminants from 21 cm intensity mapping, but its effectiveness is limited by the large dynamic range of the foreground amplitude. In this study, we develop a novel…

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Observations of the HI 21cm transition line promises to be an important probe into the cosmic dark ages and epoch of reionization. One of the challenges for the detection of this signal is the accuracy of the foreground source removal. This…

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Observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal emitted by neutral hydrogen represent a promising probe of large-scale structure in the universe. However, cosmological 21-cm signal is challenging to observe due to astrophysical foregrounds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Haochen Wang , Juan Mena-Parra , Tianyue Chen , Kiyoshi Masui

Detecting cosmological signals from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) requires high-precision calibration to isolate the cosmological signals from foreground emission. In radio interferometery, perturbed primary beams of antenna elements can…

We compare multiple foreground-cleaning pipelines for estimating the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, using simulated maps of the planned CMB-S4 experiment within the context of the South Pole Deep Patch. To evaluate robustness, we analyze bias…

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A critical challenge in measuring the power spectrum of 21cm emission from cosmic reionization is compensating for the frequency dependence of an interferometer's sampling pattern, which can cause smooth-spectrum foregrounds to appear…

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Most work on foreground removal has treated the case where the frequency dependence of all components is perfectly known and independent of position. In contrast, real-world foregrounds are generally not perfectly correlated between…

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The ability to subtract foreground contamination from low-frequency observations is crucial to reveal the underlying 21 cm signal. The traditional line-of-sight methods can deal with the removal of diffuse emission and unresolved point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiao-Chun Mao

It is well-known that foreground subtraction in 21cm surveys removes large scale power. We investigate associated systematic biases. We show that removing line-of-sight fluctuations on large scales aliases into suppression of the 3D power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nada Petrovic , S. Peng Oh

The CLEAN algorithm, widely used in radio interferometry for the deconvolution of radio images, performs well only if the raw radio image (dirty image) is, to good approximation, a simple convolution between the instrumental point-spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. M. Stewart , D. M. Fenech , T. W. B. Muxlow

We present and compare several methods to mitigate time-correlated (1/f) noise within the HI intensity mapping component of the MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey (MeerKLASS). By simulating scan strategies, the HI signal, foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-10 Melis O. Irfan , Yichao Li , Mario G. Santos , Philip Bull , Junhua Gu , Steven Cunnington , Keith Grainge , Jingying Wang

We study the clustering of HI intensity maps produced from simulations with a focus on baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the effects induced by telescope beam smoothing and foreground cleaning. We start by creating a HI catalogue at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Santiago Avila , Bernhard Vos-Ginés , Steven Cunnington , Adam R. H. Stevens , Gustavo Yepes , Alexander Knebe , Chia-Hsun Chuang

Line intensity mapping (LIM) has the potential to produce highly precise measurements of scale-dependence bias from primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) due to its ability to map much larger volumes than are available from galaxy surveys. PNG…

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