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Cross-correlations between 21cm observations and galaxy surveys provide a powerful probe of reionization by reducing foreground sensitivity while linking ionization morphology to galaxies. We quantify the constraining power of 21cm-Galaxy…

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The Minkowski Functionals (MFs), a set of topological summary statistics, have emerged as a powerful tool for extracting non-Gaussian information. We investigate the prospect of constraining the reionization parameters using the MFs of the…

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We propose the HI 21-cm power spectrum from the post-reionization epoch as a probe of a cosmological model with decaying dark matter particles. The unstable particles are assumed to undergo a 2-body decay into a massless and massive…

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The global 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts $z \sim 6-30$, probes the nature of first sources of radiation as well as physics of the Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM). Given that the signal is…

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A proposed method for dealing with foreground emission in upcoming 21-cm observations from the epoch of reionization is to limit observations to an uncontaminated window in Fourier space. Foreground emission can be avoided in this way,…

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The 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization will be observed with the up-coming Square Kilometer Array (SKA). SKA should yield a full tomography of the signal which opens the possibility to explore its non-Gaussian properties. How can…

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We develop an effective perturbation theory (and, equivalently, a bias expansion) for the inhomogeneous 21cm radiation field from reionization. Using large-scale simulations of cosmological reionization, we find that this expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Matthew McQuinn , Anson D'Aloisio

The sky-averaged (global) highly redshifted 21-cm spectrum from neutral hydrogen is expected to appear in the VHF range of $\sim20-200$ MHz and its spectral shape and strength are determined by the heating properties of the first stars and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Keith Tauscher , David Rapetti , Jack O. Burns , Eric R. Switzer

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 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a powerful probe of the evolution of the Universe. However, accurate measurements of the EoR signal from radio interferometric observations are sensitive to efficient foreground…

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The precise measurement of the sky-averaged HI absorption signal between 50 and 200 MHz is the primary goal of global 21-cm cosmology. This measurement has the potential to unravel the underlying physics of cosmic structure formation and…

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Detection of the \hi~ 21-cm power spectrum is one of the key science drivers of several ongoing and upcoming low-frequency radio interferometers. However, the major challenge in such observations come from bright foregrounds, whose accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Madhurima Choudhury , Abhirup Datta , Suman Majumdar

We discuss the 21cm power spectrum (PS) following the completion of reionization. In contrast to the reionization era, this PS is proportional to the PS of mass density fluctuations, with only a small modulation due to fluctuations in the…

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The redshifted 21\,cm line is an emerging tool in observational cosmology that can serve as a direct probe of the intergalactic medium throughout the cosmic timeline. However, the observation of the cosmological 21\,cm signal from early…

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Direct detection of the Epoch of Reionization via the redshifted 21-cm line will have unprecedented implications on the study of structure formation in the early Universe. To fulfill this promise current and future 21-cm experiments will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 F. Mertens , A. Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans

The 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen is a promising probe of the early Universe, yet extracting astrophysical parameters from its power spectrum remains a major challenge. We present a beginner-friendly PyTorch pipeline for Marginal Neural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Bisweswar Sen

Measurements of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal hold the potential to constrain models of reionization. In this paper we consider a reionization model with three astrophysical parameters namely (1) the minimum halo mass which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-18 Abinash Kumar Shaw , Somnath Bharadwaj , Rajesh Mondal

Observation of the 21cm line signal from neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionization is challenging due to extremely bright Galactic and extragalactic foregrounds and complicated instrumental calibration. A reasonable approach for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 S. Yoshiura , K. Ichiki , B. Pindor , K. Takahashi , H. Tashiro , C. M. Trott

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

We present a simulation-based inference (SBI) cosmological analysis of cosmic shear two-point statistics from the fourth weak gravitational lensing data release of the ESO Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000). KiDS-SBI efficiently performs…

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