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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,…

The 21cm line refers to a forbidden transition in neutral hydrogen associated with alignment of spins of the proton and electron. It is a very low energy transition that is emitted whenever there is neutral hydrogen in the Universe. Since…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 Adrian Liu , Laura Newburgh , Benjamin Saliwanchik , Anže Slosar

It is widely agreed that studying the 21 cm emission line from neutral hydrogen may be our best hope for understanding the creation of the first structures during the dark ages and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). This hyperfine transition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 Mahta Moazzenzadeh , Javad T. Firouzjaee

Before the universe was reionized, it was likely that the spin temperature of intergalactic hydrogen was decoupled from the CMB by UV radiation from the first stars through the Wouthuysen-Field effect. If the IGM had not yet been heated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Marcelo A. Alvarez , Ue-Li Pen , Tzu-Ching Chang

Recently the EDGES experiment has claimed the detection of an absorption feature centered at 78 MHz. When interpreted as a signature of cosmic dawn, this feature appears at the correct wavelength (corresponding to a redshift range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Prateek Sharma

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

The 21 cm emission of neutral hydrogen is the most promising probe of the epoch of reionization(EoR). In the next few years, the SKA pathfinders will provide statistical measurements of this signal. Numerical simulations predicting these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Baek , P. Di Matteo , B. Semelin , F. Combes , Y. Revaz

Predicting the 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization and cosmic dawn is a complex and challenging task. Various simplifying assumptions have been applied over the last decades to make the modeling more affordable. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Timothée Schaeffer , Sambit K. Giri , Aurel Schneider

Low-frequency radio observations of neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionization will provide hundreds of quasi-independent source planes, each of precisely known redshift, if a resolution of ~ 1 arcminutes or better…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 R. Benton Metcalf

Hybrid Foreground Residual Subtraction (HyFoReS) is a new family of algorithms designed to remove systematics-induced foreground contamination for 21-cm intensity mapping data. Previously, the algorithm was shown to be effective in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Haochen Wang , Panupong Phoompuang , Kiyoshi W. Masui , Arnab Chakraborty , Simon Foreman

Scattering between dark matter and baryon can cool intergalactic medium temperature and deepen the 21cm signal. Such interactions have been proposed to explain the unusually deep 21cm absorption signal reported by EDGES in 2018. This paper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yin-Zhe Ma

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 present a differentiable, end-to-end Bayesian forward modeling framework for line intensity mapping cosmology experiments, with a specific focus on low-frequency radio telescopes targeting the redshifted 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Nicholas Kern

Probing statistical distribution of the neutral hydrogen (\HI) using the redshifted 21-cm hyperfine-transition spectral line holds the key to understand the formation and evolution of the matter density in the universe. The two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-24 Urvashi Arora , Prasun Dutta

21 cm intensity mapping has emerged as a promising technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe, at redshifts $z$ from 1 to 10. Unfortunately, many of the key cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen , Yu Yu , Xuelei Chen

The main challenge of 21 cm cosmology experiments is astrophysical foregrounds which are difficult to separate from the signal due to telescope systematics. An earlier study has shown that foreground residuals induced by antenna gain errors…

The redshifted 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization carries invaluable information about the cosmology and astrophysics of the early Universe. Analyzing data from a sky-averaged 21-cm signal experiment requires…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Anchal Saxena , P. Daniel Meerburg , Christoph Weniger , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley

A recent observation by the EDGES collaboration shows a strong absorption signal in the global 21-cm spectrum from around a redshift of $z = 17$. This absorption is stronger than the maximum prediction by existing models and indicates that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Suman Chatterjee , Somnath Bharadwaj

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

The resonance scattering of Ly$\alpha$ photons with neutral hydrogen atoms in the intergalactic medium not only couples the spin temperature to the kinetic temperature but also leads to a heating of the gas. We investigate the impact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Raghunath Ghara , Garrelt Mellema