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The first generation of redshifted 21 cm detection experiments, carried out with arrays like LOFAR, MWA and GMRT, will have a very low signal-to-noise ratio per resolution element (\sim 0.2). In addition, whereas the variance of the…

The redshifted 21cm signal from the post-reionization epoch is highly non-Gaussian; thus, higher-order statistics, such as the bispectrum, are required to extract this non-Gaussian information. However, high-signal-to-noise ratio detection…

The precise characterization and mitigation of systematic effects is one of the biggest roadblocks impeding the detection of the fluctuations of cosmological 21cm signals. Missing data in radio cosmological experiments, often due to radio…

The 21-cm hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen is a useful tool to probe the conditions of the Universe during the Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and the Epoch of Reionisation. In most of the current calculations, the 21-cm line signals at given…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Jennifer Y. H. Chan , Qin Han , Kinwah Wu , Jason D. McEwen

We investigate the effect of radio-frequency interference (RFI) excision in estimating the cosmological \hi\ 21 cm power spectrum. Flagging of RFI-contaminated channels results in a non-uniform sampling of the instrumental bandpass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Arnab Chakraborty , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder

Detecting the 21-cm hyperfine transition from neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium is our best probe for understanding the astrophysical processes driving the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). The primary means for a detection of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Bradley Greig , Yuan-Sen Ting , Alexander A. Kaurov

Measurement of redshifted 21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen promises to be the most effective method for studying the reionisation history of hydrogen and, indirectly, the first galaxies. These studies will be limited not by raw…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-24 Paul M. Geil , B. M. Gaensler , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

High-number-density tracers of large-scale structure, such as the HI-rich galaxies measured by 21 cm intensity mapping, have low sampling noise, making them particularly promising as cosmological probes. At large scales, this sampling noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Simon Foreman , Andrej Obuljen , Marko Simonović

In 2018 the EDGES experiment claimed the first detection of the global cosmic 21cm signal, which featured an absorption trough centered around $z \sim 17$ with a depth of approximately -500mK. This amplitude is deeper than the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Junsong Cang , Andrei Mesinger , Steven G. Murray , Daniela Breitman , Yuxiang Qin , Roberto Trotta

Analyses of the cosmic 21-cm signal are hampered by astrophysical foregrounds that are far stronger than the signal itself. These foregrounds, typically confined to a wedge-shaped region in Fourier space, often necessitate the removal of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Nashwan Sabti , Ram Reddy , Julian B. Muñoz , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Taewook Youn

Observations of the EoR with the 21-cm hyperfine emission of neutral hydrogen (HI) promise to open an entirely new window onto the formation of the first stars, galaxies and accreting black holes. In order to characterize the weak 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Abhik Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans , Emma Chapman , Vibor Jelic

We present a Bayesian re-analysis of the sky-averaged 21-cm experimental data from SARAS2 using nested sampling implemented with polychord, spectrally smooth foreground modelling implemented with maxsmooth, detailed systematic modelling and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-23 H. T. J. Bevins , E. de Lera Acedo , A. Fialkov , W. J. Handley , S. Singh , R. Subrahmanyan , R. Barkana

After reionization, emission in the 21 cm hyperfine transition provides a direct probe of neutral hydrogen distributed in galaxies. Different from galaxy redshift surveys, observation of baryon acoustic oscillations in the cumulative 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-14 Xiao-Chun Mao

Large Scale Structures (LSS) in the universe can be traced using the neutral atomic hydrogen HI through its 21cm emission. Such a 3D matter distribution map can be used to test the Cosmological model and to constrain the Dark Energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Ansari , J. E. Campagne , P. Colom , J. M. Le Goff , C. Magneville , J. M. Martin , M. Moniez , J. Rich , C. Yèche

The 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen is a promising probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) but suffers from contamination by spectrally smooth foregrounds, which obscure the large-scale signal along the line of sight. We explore the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Wenzer Qin , Kai-Feng Chen , Katelin Schutz , Adrian Liu

The redshifted 21-cm radiation from the atomic hydrogen (HI) provides an excellent direct probe to study the evolution of HI in IGM and thus reveal the nature of the first luminous objects, their evolution and role during Cosmic Dawn (CD)…

Intensity mapping -- the large-scale mapping of selected spectral lines without resolving individual sources -- is quickly emerging as an efficient way to conduct large cosmological surveys. Multiple surveys covering a variety of lines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hannah Fronenberg , Adrian Liu

Biconical-type antennas featuring high directivity have been designed, created, and tested in anechoic chamber. Results in the range between 1 and 5 GHz are presented in this article. In particular, two different configurations have been…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Daniele Funaro , Alessandro Chiolerio

The SZE-21cm has been proposed as an alternative probe for the Dark Ages (DA) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The effect is produced when photons of the 21cm background are inverse Compton (up-)scattered by electrons residing in hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Charles Mpho Takalana , Paolo Marchegiani , Sergio Colafrancesco