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Direct detection of the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization via the redshifted 21-cm line of neutral Hydrogen will have unprecedented implications for studying structure formation in the early Universe. This exciting goal is challenged by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Florent G. Mertens , Jérôme Bobin , Isabella P. Carucci

The ionosphere introduces chromatic distortions on low frequency radio waves, and thus poses a hurdle for 21-cm cosmology. In this paper we introduce time-varying chromatic ionospheric effects on simulated antenna temperature data of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Emma Shen , Dominic Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Anastasia Fialkov

Extended 21cm absorption regions (dubbed ``21cm absorption halos'') around first galaxies at $z\sim 30$ are likely the first distinctive structures accessible to radio observations. Though the radio array capable of detecting and resolving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pengjie Zhang , Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen

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

(Abridged) Noise considerations for experiments that aim to statistically estimate the 21 cm signal from high redshift neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) using interferometric data are typically computed assuming a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Cathryn M. Trott

Detecting the cosmic 21-cm signal during the Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn will reveal insights into the properties of the first galaxies and advance cosmological parameter estimation. Until recently, the primary focus for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Bradley Greig , Yuan-Sen Ting , Alexander A. Kaurov

Contamination from instrumental effects interacting with bright astrophysical sources is the primary impediment to measuring Epoch of Reionization and BAO 21 cm power spectra---an effect called mode-mixing. In this paper we identify four…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Miguel F. Morales , Bryna Hazelton , Ian Sullivan , Adam Beardsley

As a result of our limited data on reionization, the total optical depth for electron scattering, $\tau$, limits precision measurements of cosmological parameters from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). It was recently shown that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Anastasia Fialkov , Abraham Loeb

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

We propose a deep learning analyzing technique with convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the evolutionary track of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) from the 21-cm differential brightness temperature tomography images. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yungi Kwon , Sungwook E. Hong , Inkyu Park

Cross-correlating 21cm and Ly$\alpha$ intensity maps of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) promises to be a powerful tool for exploring the properties of the first galaxies. Next-generation intensity mapping experiments such as the Hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Tyler A. Cox , Daniel C. Jacobs , Steven G. Murray

The cosmological 21 cm signal is one of the most promising avenues to study the Epoch of Reionization. One class of experiments aiming to detect this signal is global signal experiments measuring the sky-averaged 21 cm brightness…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Stefan Heimersheim , Leiv Rønneberg , Henry Linton , Filippo Pagani , Anastasia Fialkov

Statistical observations of the Epoch of Reionization using the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of structure formation and the first luminous objects. However, these observations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Miguel F. Morales , Judd D. Bowman , Jacqueline N. Hewitt

The cosmic 21 cm signal is set to revolutionise our understanding of the early Universe, allowing us to probe the 3D temperature and ionisation structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM). It will open a window onto the unseen first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger

Observation of the redshifted 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization is a challenging endeavor in observational cosmology. Presence of orders of magnitude brighter astrophysical foregrounds and various instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Aishrila Mazumder , Abhirup Datta , Arnab Chakraborty , Suman Majumdar

Using the latest upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum at $z\approx9.1$ from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), we explore regions of parameter space which are inconsistent with the data. We use 21CMMC, a Monte Carlo Markov Chain sampler…

Detecting the cosmological sky-averaged (global) 21 cm signal as a function of observed frequency will provide a powerful tool to study the ionization and thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the early Universe ($\sim$ 400…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Bang D. Nhan , David D. Bordenave , Richard F. Bradley , Jack O. Burns , Keith Tauscher , David Rapetti , Patricia J. Klima

One approach to extracting the global 21-cm signal from total-power measurements at low radio frequencies is to parametrize the different contributions to the data and then fit for these parameters. We examine parametrizations of the 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-04 Geraint J. A. Harker , Jordan Mirocha , Jack O. Burns , Jonathan R. Pritchard

The light-cone (LC) effect causes the mean as well as the statistical properties of the redshifted 21-cm signal $T_{\rm b}(\hat{\bf n},\nu)$ to change with frequency $\nu$ (or cosmic time). Consequently, the statistical homogeneity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Rajesh Mondal , Abinash Kumar Shaw , Ilian T. Iliev , Somnath Bharadwaj , Kanan K. Datta , Suman Majumdar , Anjan K. Sarkar , Keri L. Dixon

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