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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

We have derived whole-sky CMB polarization maps from the WMAP 5 year polarization data, using the Harmonic Internal Linear Combination (HILC) method. Our HILC method incorporates spatial variability of linear weights in a natural way and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-06 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky , Per Rex Christensen

Analysis of microwave sky signals, such as the cosmic microwave background, often requires component separation with multi-frequency methods, where different signals are isolated by their frequency behaviors. Many so-called "blind" methods,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Fiona McCarthy , J. Colin Hill , William R. Coulton , David W. Hogg

The cosmic 21-cm line of hydrogen is expected to be measured in detail by the next generation of radio telescopes. The enormous dataset from future 21-cm surveys will revolutionize our understanding of early cosmic times. We present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 Sudipta Sikder , Rennan Barkana , Itamar Reis , Anastasia Fialkov

Detecting and characterizing the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn via the redshifted 21-cm hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen will revolutionize the study of the formation of the first stars, galaxies, black holes and intergalactic gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 F. G. Mertens , A. Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans

We are presenting an Internal Linear Combination (ILC) CMB map, in which the foreground is reduced through harmonic variance minimization. We have derived our method by converting a general form of pixel-space approach into spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky , Per Rex Christensen

The redshifted 21 cm brightness distribution from neutral hydrogen is a promising probe into the cosmic dark ages, cosmic dawn, and re-ionization. LOFAR's Low Band Antennas (LBA) may be used in the frequency range 45 MHz to 85 MHz (30>z>16)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. K. Vedantham , L. V. E. Koopmans , A. G. de Bruyn , S. J. Wijnholds , B. Ciardi , M. A. Brentjens

High-number-density tracers of large-scale structure, such as the HI-rich galaxies measured by 21 cm intensity mapping, have low sampling noise, making them particularly promising as cosmological probes. At large scales, this sampling noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Simon Foreman , Andrej Obuljen , Marko Simonović

One of the main goals of most future CMB experiments is the precise measurement of CMB B-mode polarization, whose major obstacle is the Galactic foregrounds. In this paper, we evaluate the foreground cleaning performance of the variants of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Jiazheng Dou , Shamik Ghosh , Larissa Santos , Wen Zhao

Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping with single-dish experiments is a powerful approach for probing cosmology in the post-reionization epoch. However, the presence of bright foregrounds over four orders of magnitude stronger than the HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Athanasia Gkogkou , Victor Bonjean , Jean-Luc Starck , Marta Spinelli , Panagiotis Tsakalides

We explore the potential of upcoming 21-cm interferometric observations to probe interacting dark matter (IDM). We focus on scenarios where the dark matter-baryon scattering cross-section scales as $\sigma(v) =\sigma_{0} v^n$, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Aryan Rahimieh , Priyank Parashari , Vera Gluscevic

The 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen atom is almost the only way to directly probe the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages 21 cm signal, observed at frequencies below 50 MHz, can serve as a powerful probe of cosmology, as the standard cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Shintaro Yoshiura , Fumiya Okamatsu , Tomo Takahashi

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…

The extraction of the sky-averaged 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization faces significant challenges. The bright and anisotropic Galactic foreground, which is 4 - 5 orders of magnitude brighter than the 21 cm signal,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Haoran Li , Furen Deng , Meng Zhou , Yidong Xu , Xuelei Chen

The 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen - emitted during the Epoch of Reionization - promises to be an important source of information for the study of the infant universe. However, its detection is impossible without sufficient mitigation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 A. Mouri Sardarabadi , L. V. E. Koopmans

Observations of the EoR with the 21-cm hyperfine emission of neutral hydrogen (HI) promise to open an entirely new window onto the formation of the first stars, galaxies and accreting black holes. In order to characterize the weak 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Abhik Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans , Emma Chapman , Vibor Jelic

We explore the cosmological multitracer synergies between an emission line galaxy distribution from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and a Tianlai Project 21-cm intensity map. We use simulated maps generated from a particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Feng Shi , Yong-Seon Song , Jacobo Asorey , David Parkinson , Kyungjin Ahn , Jian Yao , Le Zhang , Shifan Zuo

Separating the cosmological redshifted 21-cm signal from foregrounds is a major challenge. We present the cross-correlation of the redshifted 21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization era with the Ly-alpha forest as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Kanan Datta

The 21 cm intensity mapping provides a promising probe of the large-scale structure. Astrophysical foregrounds, as the main source of contamination to the cosmological 21 cm signal, persist in a wedge-like region of Fourier space due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kaifeng Yu , Xin Wang

In this work, we formalize a new technique to investigate joint posterior density of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal and its theoretical angular power spectrum given the observed data, using the global internal-linear-combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha