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Tomographic three-dimensional 21 cm images from the epoch of reionization contain a wealth of information about the reionization of the intergalactic medium by astrophysical sources. Conventional power spectrum analysis cannot exploit the…

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Cosmic baryon evolution during the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization results in redshifted 21-cm spectral distortions in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These encode information about the nature and timing of first sources over redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-04 Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N Udaya Shankar , Jens Chluba

Detection and analysis of the cosmic 21 cm signal of neutral hydrogen has long been considered the most promising route towards exploration of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). 21CMMC, a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampler of the semi-numerical…

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We explore the impact of dark matter annihilation on the 21-cm signal during the cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization (EoR). Using modified 21cmFAST simulations and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), we investigate how energy injected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Kenji Kadota

The next generation 21 cm surveys open a new window onto the early stages of cosmic structure formation and provide new insights about the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). However, the non-Gaussian nature of the 21 cm signal along with the huge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-18 Héctor J. Hortúa , Luigi Malago , Riccardo Volpi

The study of the cosmic Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) using the all-sky averaged redshifted HI 21cm signal, are some of the key science goals of most of the ongoing or upcoming experiments, for example, EDGES,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-24 Madhurima Choudhury , Abhirup Datta , Arnab Chakraborty

The measurements of the 21-cm brightness temperature fluctuations from the neutral hydrogen at the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) should inaugurate the next generation of cosmological observables. In this respect, many works have concentrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-10 Sebastien Clesse , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Christophe Ringeval , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Michel H. G. Tytgat

We study the constraints that future multifrequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments will be able to set on the metal enrichment history of the Inter Galactic Medium at the epoch of reionisation. We forecast the signal to noise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez

We examine the constraints on the epoch of reionization (redshift z_r) set by recent WMAP-3 observations of tau_e = 0.09 +/- 0.03, the electron-scattering optical depth of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), combined with models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Shull , Aparna Venkatesan

With a statistical detection of the 21 cm signal fluctuations from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) expected in the next few years, there is an interest in developing robust and precise techniques to constrain the underlying astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Evan Eames , Aristide Doussot , Benoît Semelin

The reionisation time field treion(r) captures the entire history of cosmic reionisation by mapping the moment where each region of the Universe became ionised. Previous work has shown that treion(r) can be inferred from 21-cm observations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Julien Hiegel , Dominique Aubert , Émilie Thélie , Rodrigo Ibata , Nicolas Mai

The redshifted 21-cm line of distant neutral H atoms provides a probe of the cosmic ``dark ages'' and the epoch of reionization (``EOR'') which ended them. The radio continuum produced by this redshifted line can be seen in absorption or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Ue-Li Pen , Hugh Merz

We investigate the potential of second generation measurements of redshifted 21 cm radiation from before and during the epoch of reionization (EOR) to reconstruct the matter density fluctuations along the line of sight. To do so we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Oliver Zahn , Matias Zaldarriaga

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) depends on the complex astrophysics governing the birth and evolution of the first galaxies and structures in the intergalactic medium. EoR models rely on cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Yuxiang Qin , Vivian Poulin , Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig , Steven Murray , Jaehong Park

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…

The amplitude of redshifted 21 cm fluctuations during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is expected to show a distinctive "rise and fall" behavior with decreasing redshift as reionization proceeds. On large scales (k <~ 0.1 Mpc^{-1}) this can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Angus Beane , Adam Lidz

The 21 cm signal arising from fluctuations in the neutral hydrogen field, and its cross-correlation with other tracers of cosmic density, are promising probes of the high-redshift Universe. In this study, we assess the potential of the 21…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Barun Maity

Spectroscopic studies of high-redshift objects and increasingly precise data on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are beginning to independently place strong complementary bounds on the epoch of hydrogen reionization. Parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Aparna Venkatesan

Detection of redshifted \ion{H}{i} 21-cm emission is a potential probe for investigating the Universe's first billion years. However, given the significantly brighter foreground, detecting 21-cm is observationally difficult. The Earth's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Anshuman Tripathi , Abhirup Datta , Madhurima Choudhury , Suman Majumdar

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will produce images of neutral hydrogen distribution during the epoch of reionization by observing the corresponding 21-cm signal. However, the 21-cm signal will be subject to…

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