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We describe how the high-redshift 21-cm background can be used to improve both our understanding of the fundamental cosmological parameters of our Universe and exotic processes originating in the dark sector. The 21-cm background emerging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Steven R. Furlanetto

We explore the possibility of retrieving cosmological information from 21-cm tomographic data at intermediate redshift. The first step in our approach consists of training an encoder, composed of several three dimensional convolutional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Sambatra Andrianomena

Understanding the astrophysical nature of the first stars remains an unsolved problem in cosmology. The redshifted global 21-cm signal $({T}_{21})$ acts as a treasure trove to probe the cosmic dawn era -- when the intergalactic medium was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Vivekanand Mohapatra , Johnny J , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Jishnu Goswami , Alekha C. Nayak

Accurate beam modeling is important in many radio astronomy applications. In this paper, we focus on beam modeling for 21-cm intensity mapping experiments using radio interferometers, though the techniques also apply to single dish…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Michael J. Wilensky , Philip Bull , Nicolas Fagnoni

Observations of the high-redshift Universe with the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen promise to open an entirely new window onto the early phases of cosmic structure formation. Here we review the physics of the 21 cm transition,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven Furlanetto , S. Peng Oh , Frank Briggs

The 21-cm signal holds the key to understanding the first structure formation during cosmic dawn. Theoretical progress over the last decade has focused on simulations of this signal, given the nonlinear and nonlocal relation between initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Julian B. Muñoz

Measuring temperature fluctuations in the 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn is one of the most promising ways to study the Universe at high redshifts. Unfortunately, the 21 cm signal is affected by both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-01 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The 21 cm spectral line emission of atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) is one of the primary wavelengths observed in radio astronomy. However, the signal is intrinsically faint and the HI content of galaxies depends on the cosmic environment,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 J. A. Barkai , M. A. W. Verheijen , E. T. Martínez , M. H. F. Wilkinson

The light of the first astrophysical objects is expected to leave an imprint on the global 21-cm signal as it heats, excites, and ionizes neutral hydrogen. This dependence on early astrophysics introduces significant uncertainties in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 Omer Zvi Katz

In this review article, we briefly outline our current understanding of the physics associated with the HI 21-cm signal from cosmic dawn. We discuss different phases of cosmic dawn as the ambient gas and the background radiations evolve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Ankita Bera , Raghunath Ghara , Atrideb Chatterjee , Kanan K. Datta , Saumyadip Samui

We perform an analysis of the Cosmic Web as a complex network, which is built on a $\Lambda$CDM cosmological simulation. For each of nodes, which are in this case dark matter halos formed in the simulation, we compute 10 network metrics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj , Yurij Holovatch , Noam I Libeskind

The redshifted 21-cm signal emitted by neutral Hydrogen (HI) is a promising probe to understand the evolution of the topology of ionized regions during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The topology of ionized regions allows us to infer the…

This paper presents the CosmicWeb-21cm array, a novel radio interferometer designed to overcome the key challenges in 21 cm cosmology. Its core innovations include: (1) a multi-scale nested geometry combining a hexagonal core with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jiancheng Wang , Jirong Mao , Xiangming Cheng , Yigong Zhang , Jie Su , Xiaogu Zhong , Min Wang , Zhigang Zhang , Qingwei Wang , Yonghua Xu , Zhixuan Li , Longhua Qin , Zhengjun Zhang

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

The sky-averaged (global) 21-cm signal is a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the completion of reionization. However, it has so far been unclear that even in the best case scenario, in which the signal is accurately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jordan Mirocha , Geraint J. A. Harker , Jack O. Burns

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have the sensitivity to take the 3D light-cones of the 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization. This signal, however, is highly non-Gaussian and can not be fully interpreted by the traditional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Xiaosheng Zhao , Shifan Zuo , Yi Mao

The 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen is a sensitive probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn. Currently operating radio telescopes have ushered in a data-driven era of 21-cm cosmology, providing the first constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Aviad Cohen , Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana , Raul Monsalve

I review the potential for observing cosmic reionization using the HI 21cm line of neutral hydrogren. Studies include observations of the evolution of large scale structure of the IGM (density, excitation temperature, and neutral fraction),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. L. Carilli

Global 21cm experiments aim to measure the sky averaged HI absorption signal from cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionisation. However, antenna chromaticity coupling to bright foregrounds can introduce distortions into the observational data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-12 Dominic Anstey , John Cumner , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley

This chapter describes the astrophysics encoded by the 21-cm background. We begin with a brief introduction to the radiative transfer and ionization chemistry relevant to the high-z intergalactic medium. Then, we will provide a review of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Jordan Mirocha