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21-cm Intensity Mapping (IM) is a promising approach to detecting information about the large-scale structure beyond the local universe. One of the biggest challenges for an IM observation is the foreground removal procedure. In this paper,…

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Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising probe to study star formation, the large-scale structure of the Universe, and the epoch of reionization (EoR). Since carbon monoxide (CO) is the second most abundant molecule in the Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Meng Zhang , Bin Yue , Xuelei Chen

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

We compare various foreground removal techniques that are being utilised to remove bright foregrounds in various experiments aiming to detect the redshifted 21cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Epoch of Reionization. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Ian Hothi , Emma Chapman , Jonathan R. Pritchard , F. G. Mertens , L. V. E Koopmans , B. Ciardi , B. K. Gehlot , R. Ghara , A. Ghosh , S. K. Giri , I. T. Iliev , V. Jelić , S. Zaroubi

We conduct the first case study towards developing optimal foreground mitigation strategies for neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping using radio interferometers at low redshifts. A pipeline for simulation, foreground mitigation and power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-08 Zhaoting Chen , Laura Wolz , Richard Battye

The low-frequency component of the upcoming Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKA-Low) will be sensitive enough to construct 3D tomographic images of the 21-cm signal distribution during reionisation. However, foreground contamination…

Current and upcoming 21-cm experiments will soon be able to map 21-cm spatial fluctuations in three dimensions for a wide range of redshifts. However, bright foreground contamination and the nature of radio interferometry create significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Shu-Fan Chen , Kai-Feng Chen , Cora Dvorkin

We present a comprehensive analysis of the 21 cm intensity mapping (IM) data from the Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array (TCPA), focusing on multi-scale foreground mitigation and three-dimensional power spectrum estimation. Utilizing 20 days…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yikai Deng , Shifan Zuo , Jixia Li , Yougang Wang , Xuelei Chen

Foreground removal is the most important step in detecting the large-scale redshifted HI 21-cm signal. Modelling foreground spectra is challenging and is further complicated by the chromatic response of the telescope. We present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Visweshwar Ram Marthi , Suman Chatterjee , Jayaram Chengalur , Somnath Bharadwaj

We propose a continuous wavelet transform based non-parametric foreground subtraction method for the detection of redshifted 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization. This method works based on the assumption that the foreground spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Junhua Gu , Haiguang Xu , Jingying Wang , Tao An , Wen Chen

Upcoming experiments will map the spatial distribution of the 21-cm signal over three-dimensional volumes of space during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Several methods have been proposed to mitigate the issue of astrophysical foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Jacob Kennedy , Jonathan Colaço Carr , Samuel Gagnon-Hartman , Adrian Liu , Jordan Mirocha , Yue Cui

Radio interferometers designed to probe the 21cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionisation must contend with systematic effects that make it difficult to achieve sufficient dynamic range to separate the 21cm signal from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-24 Fraser Kennedy , Philip Bull , Michael Wilensky , Jacob Burba , Samir Choudhuri

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,…

Foreground removal remains an ongoing challenge in radio cosmology, and increasingly sensitive experiments necessitate more robust analysis techniques. In this work, we model simulated data from a single-dish intensity mapping experiment,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Geoff G. Murphy , Philip Bull , Mario G. Santos , Zheng Zhang , Steven Cunnington

The bispectrum is a 3-point statistic with the potential to provide additional information beyond power spectra analyses of survey datasets. Radio telescopes which broadly survey the 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) are a promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Steven Cunnington , Catherine Watkinson , Alkistis Pourtsidou

We use full sky simulations, including the effects of foreground contamination and removal, to explore multi-tracer synergies between a SKA-like 21cm intensity mapping survey and a LSST-like photometric galaxy redshift survey. In particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Amadeus Witzemann , David Alonso , José Fonseca , Mario G. Santos

Neutral hydrogen (HI) serves as a crucial probe for the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Actual observations of the 21-cm signal often encounter challenges such as thermal noise and various systematic effects. To overcome…

In a sky-averaged 21-cm signal experiment, the uncertainty on the extracted signal depends mainly on the covariance between the foreground and 21-cm signal models. In this paper, we construct these models using the modes of variation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Anchal Saxena , P. Daniel Meerburg , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley , Léon V. E. Koopmans

Observing the neutral hydrogen distribution across the Universe via redshifted 21cm line intensity mapping constitutes a powerful probe for cosmology. However, the redshifted 21cm signal is obscured by the foreground emission from our…