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Spatial variations in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest opacity at $z<6$ seem to require a late end to cosmic reionization. In this picture, the universe contains neutral hydrogen 'islands' of up to 100 cMpc$/h$ in extent down to redshifts as low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Janakee Raste , Girish Kulkarni , Catherine A. Watkinson , Laura C. Keating , Martin G. Haehnelt

Observations of redshifted 21-cm radiation from neutral hydrogen during the epoch of reionization (EoR) are considered to constitute the most promising tool to probe that epoch. One of the major goals of the first generation of low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Kanan K. Datta , Garrelt Mellema , Yi Mao , Ilian T. Iliev , Paul R. Shapiro , Kyungjin Ahn

The cosmic microwave background provides an image of the Universe 0.4 million years after the big bang, when atomic hydrogen formed out of free electrons and protons. One of the primary goals of observational cosmology is to obtain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-27 Abraham Loeb

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

We discuss low frequency radio astronomy from the moon, predominantly in the context of studying the neutral intergalactic medium during cosmic reionization using the HI 21cm line of neutral hydrogen. The epoch of reionization is the next…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. L. Carilli , J. N. Hewitt , A. Loeb

Concerted effort is currently ongoing to open up the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) ($z\sim$15-6) for studies with IR and radio telescopes. Whereas IR detections have been made of sources (Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters, quasars and drop-outs) in…

Detecting $\rm H_I$ 21cm line in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) suffers from foreground contamination such as Galactic synchrotron and extragalactic radio sources. Cross-correlation between the 21cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Kenji Kubota , Akio. K. Inoue , Kenji Hasegawa , Keitaro Takahashi

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Michele Bianco , Sambit. K. Giri , David Prelogović , Tianyue Chen , Florent G. Mertens , Emma Tolley , Andrei Mesinger , Jean-Paul Kneib

The 21 cm linear polarization due to Thomson scattering off free electrons can probe the distribution of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium during the epoch of reionization, complementary to the 21 cm temperature fluctuations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Bohua Li , Jianrong Tan , Yi Mao

The tumultuous effects of ultraviolet photons that source cosmic reionization, the subsequent compression and shock-heating of low-density regions, and the modulation of baryons in shallow potential wells induced by the passage of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-23 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Catalina Morales-Gutiérrez , Yao Zhang , Heyang Long , Yi Mao

The 21-cm power spectrum (PS) has been shown to be a powerful discriminant of reionization and cosmic dawn astrophysical parameters. However, the 21-cm tomographic signal is highly non-Gaussian. Therefore there is additional information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Nicolas Gillet , Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig , Adrian Liu , Graziano Ucci

We examine the prospects for studying the pre-reionization intergalactic medium (IGM) through the so-called 21 cm forest in spectra of bright high-redshift radio sources. We first compute the evolution of the mean optical depth for models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven Furlanetto

We predict the 21-cm global signal and power spectra during the Epoch of Reionisation using the MERAXES semi-analytic galaxy formation and reionisation model, updated to include X-ray heating and thermal evolution of the intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-21 Sreedhar Balu , Bradley Greig , Yisheng Qiu , Chris Power , Yuxiang Qin , Simon Mutch , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

During the epoch of reionization (EoR), the first generation of luminous sources in our Universe emitted ionizing photons that almost completely ionized the gas in the intergalactic medium (IGM). The growth of ionized bubbles and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri , Koki Kakiichi , Michele Bianco , P. Daniel Meerburg

The temporal evolution of the ionizing UV background radiation field at high redshift provides a probe of the evolution of the early star formation rate. By comparing the observed levels of absorption in the highest redshift quasar spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Renyue Cen , Patrick McDonald

The large-scale structure of the Universe should soon be measured at high redshift during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) through line-intensity mapping. A number of ongoing and planned surveys are using the 21 cm line to trace neutral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Angus Beane , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Adam Lidz

Observations of the high-redshift Universe using the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen and complimentary emission lines from the first galaxies promise to open a new door for our understanding of the epoch of reionization. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Sebastian Dumitru , Girish Kulkarni , Guilaine Lagache , Martin G. Haehnelt

We investigate the 21 cm signals from the UV ionizing sources in the reionization epoch. The formation and evolution of 21 cm emission and absorption regions depend essentially on the kinetics of photons in the physical and frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jiren Liu , Jing-Mei Qiu , Long-Long Feng , Chi-Wang Shu , Li-Zhi Fang

Reionization is an inhomogeneous process, thought to begin in small ionized bubbles of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around overdense regions of galaxies. Recent Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) studies during the epoch of reionization show…

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Datta , S. Bhatnagar , C. L. Carilli