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21-cm intensity mapping (IM) is a powerful technique to probe the large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) and extract cosmological information such as the baryon acoustic oscillation feature. A key challenge lies in recovering the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Zitong Wang , Feng Shi , Le Zhang , Yanming Liu , Xiaoping Li , Shulei Ni , Ming Jiang , Xiaofan Ma

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

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 apply the Correlated Component Analysis (CCA) method on simulated data of the Square Kilometre Array, with the aim of accurately cleaning the 21 cm reionization signal from diffuse foreground contamination. The CCA has been developed for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

The redshifted 21~cm signal from neutral hydrogen (HI) is potentially a very powerful probe for cosmology, but a difficulty in its observation is that it is much weaker than foreground radiation from the Milky Way as well as extragalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-14 Shifan Zuo , Xuelei Chen , Reza Ansari , Youjun Lu

The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method and the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method are widely used for foreground subtraction in 21 cm intensity mapping experiments. We show their equivalence, and point out that the condition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Shifan Zuo , Xuelei Chen , Yi Mao

HI intensity mapping is an emerging tool to probe dark energy. Observations of the redshifted HI signal will be contaminated by instrumental noise, atmospheric and Galactic foregrounds. The latter is expected to be four orders of magnitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , C. Dickinson , R. A. Battye , I. W. A. Browne , Y. -Z. Ma , B. Maffei , F. Noviello , M. Remazeilles , P. N. Wilkinson

The success of HI intensity mapping is largely dependent on how well 21cm foreground contamination can be controlled. In order to progress our understanding further, we present a range of simulated foreground data from four different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 Steven Cunnington , Melis O. Irfan , Isabella P. Carucci , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Jérôme Bobin

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-13 Feng Shi , Haoxiang Chang , Le Zhang , Huanyuan Shan , Jiajun Zhang , Suiping Zhou , Ming Jiang , Zitong Wang

We make use of a large set of fast simulations of an intensity mapping experiment with characteristics similar to those expected of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in order to study the viability and limits of blind foreground subtraction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Alonso , Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos

Intensity Mapping (IM) of the 21-cm line of the neutral hydrogen (\textsc{Hi}) has become a compelling new technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. One of the main challenges is the presence of strong foreground emissions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Bianca De Caro , Isabella P. Carucci , Stefano Camera , Mathieu Remazeilles , Carmelita Carbone

21 cm intensity mapping has emerged as a promising technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, the presence of foregrounds with amplitudes orders of magnitude larger than the cosmological signal constitutes a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Isabella P. Carucci , Melis O. Irfan , Jérôme Bobin

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

The key challenge in the observation of the redshifted 21-cm signal from cosmic reionization is its separation from the much brighter foreground emission. Such separation relies on the different spectral properties of the two components,…

Potential evidence for primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is expected to lie in the largest scales mapped by cosmological surveys. Forthcoming 21cm intensity mapping experiments will aim to probe these scales by surveying neutral hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-20 Steven Cunnington , Stefano Camera , Alkistis Pourtsidou

We propose a kernel-PCA based method to detect anomaly in chemical sensors. We use temporal signals produced by chemical sensors to form vectors to perform the Principal Component Analysis (PCA). We estimate the kernel-covariance matrix of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Hongyi Pan , Diaa Badawi , Ishaan Bassi , Sule Ozev , Ahmet Enis Cetin

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

Principal component analysis (PCA) is traditionally implemented through a covariance or kernel matrix, leading-eigenvector extraction, and hard rank-$k$ projection. These steps can be computationally costly in high-dimensional and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yewei Yuan , Michele Minervini , Mark M. Wilde , Nana Liu

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been widely used for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction. Robust PCA (RPCA), under different robust distance metrics, such as l1-norm and l2, p-norm, can deal with noise or outliers to some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Zhao Kang , Hongfei Liu , Jiangxin Li , Xiaofeng Zhu , Ling Tian

In the neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) survey, the foreground contamination on the cosmological signals is extremely severe, and the systematic effects caused by radio telescopes themselves further aggravate the difficulties in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-28 Shulei Ni , Yichao Li , Li-Yang Gao , Xin Zhang
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