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The potential use of the redshifted 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen for probing the epoch of reionization is motivating the construction of several low-frequency interferometers. There is also much interest in the possibility of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Jonathan R. Pritchard , Abraham Loeb

We seek to remove foreground contaminants from 21cm intensity mapping observations. We demonstrate that a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) with a UNet architecture and three-dimensional convolutions, trained on simulated…

We compare the predictions of four different algorithms for the distribution of ionized gas during the Epoch of Reionization. These algorithms are all used to run a 100 Mpc/h simulation of reionization with the same initial conditions. Two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Oliver Zahn , Andrei Mesinger , Matthew McQuinn , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Lars E. Hernquist

We present our results from training and evaluating a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict galaxy shapes from wide-field survey images of the first data release of the Dark Energy Survey (DES DR1). We use conventional shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Dezső Ribli , László Dobos , István Csabai

The 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen serves as a critical tool for unraveling the astrophysical processes that shaped cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization. We explore the usually overlooked impact of re-scattering of 21-cm photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Sudipta Sikder , Rennan Barkana , Anastasia Fialkov

Computed tomography (CT) is increasingly being used for cancer screening, such as early detection of lung cancer. However, CT studies have varying pixel spacing due to differences in acquisition parameters. Thick slice CTs have lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Meng Li , Shiwen Shen , Wen Gao , William Hsu , Jason Cong

Twenty-one centimeter tomography is emerging as a powerful tool to explore the end of the cosmic dark ages and the reionization epoch, but it will only be as good as our ability to accurately model and remove astrophysical foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiaomin Wang , Max Tegmark , Mario Santos , Lloyd Knox

Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image denoising methods have been widely studied recently, because of their high-speed processing capability and good visual quality. However, most of the existing CNN-based denoisers learn the image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Rui Zhao , Kin-Man Lam , Daniel P. K. Lun

One of the most promising probes to constrain the reionization history of the universe is the power spectrum of neutral hydrogen 21 cm emission fluctuations. The corresponding analyses require computationally efficient modelling of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Barun Maity , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

The accurate and precise removal of 21-cm foregrounds from Epoch of Reionization redshifted 21-cm emission data is essential if we are to gain insight into an unexplored cosmological era. We apply a non-parametric technique, Generalized…

The precise form of the foregrounds for sky-averaged measurements of the 21-cm line during and before the epoch of reionization is unknown. We suggest that the level of complexity in the foreground models used to fit global 21-cm data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Geraint Harker

In recent years, research on decoding brain activity based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has made remarkable achievements. However, constraint-free natural image reconstruction from brain activity is still a challenge. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Chi Zhang , Kai Qiao , Linyuan Wang , Li Tong , Ying Zeng , Bin Yan

The 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen is a promising probe of the early Universe, yet extracting astrophysical parameters from its power spectrum remains a major challenge. We present a beginner-friendly PyTorch pipeline for Marginal Neural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Bisweswar Sen

Toward a deeper understanding on the inner work of deep neural networks, we investigate CNN (convolutional neural network) using DCN (deconvolutional network) and randomization technique, and gain new insights for the intrinsic property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Kun He , Jingbo Wang , Haochuan Li , Yao Shu , Mengxiao Zhang , Man Zhu , Liwei Wang , John E. Hopcroft

Using a combination of N-body simulations, semi-analytic models and radiative transfer calculations, we have estimated the theoretical cross power spectrum between galaxies and the 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen during the epoch of…

We present new upper limits on the 21-cm signal power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts $z \approx 10.1, 9.1, \text{ and } 8.3$, based on reprocessed observations from the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). The analysis…

Improvements in current instruments and the advent of next-generation instruments will soon push observational 21 cm cosmology into a new era, with high significance measurements of both the power spectrum and the mean ("global") signal of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-08 Adrian Liu , Aaron R. Parsons

We present a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-based parameter estimation package, CosmoReionMC, to jointly constrain cosmological parameters of the $\Lambda$CDM model and the astrophysical parameters related to hydrogen reionization. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Atrideb Chatterjee , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Sourav Mitra

We present simulations of the 21-cm signal during the epoch of reionization. We focus on properly modeling the absorption regime in the presence of inhomogeneous Wouthuysen-Field effect and X-ray heating. We ran radiative transfer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Baek , B. Semelin , P. Di Matteo , Y. Revaz , F. Combes

We introduce 21CMMC: a parallelized, Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis tool, incorporating the epoch of reionization (EoR) seminumerical simulation 21CMFAST. 21CMMC estimates astrophysical parameter constraints from 21 cm EoR experiments,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger