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We present a differentiable, end-to-end Bayesian forward modeling framework for line intensity mapping cosmology experiments, with a specific focus on low-frequency radio telescopes targeting the redshifted 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen…

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Neutral Hydrogen Intensity Mapping (HI IM) surveys will be a powerful new probe of cosmology. However, strong astrophysical foregrounds contaminate the signal and their coupling with instrumental systematics further increases the data…

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We assess the impact of Galactic synchrotron foreground removal on the observation of high-redshift quasar HII regions in redshifted 21-cm emission. We consider the case where a quasar is observed in an intergalactic medium (IGM) whose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-24 Paul. M. Geil , Stuart Wyithe , Nada Petrovic , Peng Oh

In this article we present a formalism to incorporate the partial-sky maps to the Gibbs ILC algorithm to estimate the joint posterior density of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal and the theoretical CMB angular power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Vipin Sudevan , Ujjal Purkayastha , Rajib Saha

We investigate the prospect of constraining scalar field dark energy models using HI 21-cm intensity mapping surveys. We consider a wide class of coupled scalar field dark energy models whose predictions about the background cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Azam Hussain , Shruti Thakur , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A Sen

The redshifted 21-cm emission by neutral hydrogen offers a unique tool for mapping structure formation in the early universe in three dimensions. Here we provide the first detailed calculation of the 21-cm emission signal during and after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anastasia Fialkov , Abraham Loeb

In this chapter, the use of machine learning (ML) in redshifted 21 cm cosmology is discussed, especially for the cosmic dawn, the Epoch of Reionization, and the scientific program of SKA-Low. The 21 cm signal is useful because it can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Hayato Shimabukuro

[Abridged] We have produced a cleaned map of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 3-year data using an improved foreground subtraction technique. We perform an internal linear combination (ILC) to subtract the Galactic foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chan-Gyung Park , Changbom Park , J. Richard Gott

One of the main obstacles preventing the detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen in the early Universe is the astrophysical foreground emission, which is several orders of magnitude brighter than the signal. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 S. Munshi , F. G. Mertens , L. V. E. Koopmans , A. R. Offringa , E. Ceccotti , S. A. Brackenhoff , J. K. Chege , B. K. Gehlot , S. Ghosh , C. Höfer , M. Mevius

We extend the ILC method in harmonic space to include the error in its CMB estimate. This allows parameter estimation routines to take into account the effect of the foregrounds as well as the errors in their subtraction in conjunction with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 Jason Dick , Guillaume Castex , Jacques Delabrouille

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Yannic Pietschke , Anne Hutter , Caroline Heneka

$\mbox{H}$ $\mbox{I}$ 21-cm absorption, an extremely useful tool to study the cold atomic hydrogen gas, can arise either from the intervening galaxies along the line-of-sight towards the background radio source or from the radio source…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-10 Debasish Mondal , Anirudh S. Nemmani , Arunima Banerjee

HI intensity mapping is an emerging tool to probe dark energy. Observations of the redshifted HI signal will be contaminated by instrumental noise, atmospheric and Galactic foregrounds. The latter is expected to be four orders of magnitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , C. Dickinson , R. A. Battye , I. W. A. Browne , Y. -Z. Ma , B. Maffei , F. Noviello , M. Remazeilles , P. N. Wilkinson

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…

Prior to the epoch of reionisation, the 21-cm signal of the cosmic dawn is dominated by the Lyman-$\alpha$ coupling and gas temperature fluctuations caused by the first sources of radiation. While early efforts to model this epoch relied on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Aurel Schneider , Sambit K. Giri , Jordan Mirocha

The separation of cosmological signal from astrophysical foregrounds is a fundamental challenge for any effort to probe the evolution of neutral hydrogen during the Cosmic Dawn and epoch of reionization (EoR) using the 21 cm hyperfine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 Naomi Orosz , Joshua S. Dillon , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Aaron R. Parsons , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

The 21-cm signal provides a novel avenue to measure the thermal state of the universe during cosmic dawn and reionization (redshifts $z\sim 5-30$), and thus to probe energy injection from decaying or annihilating dark matter (DM). These DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Yitian Sun , Joshua W. Foster , Hongwan Liu , Julian B. Muñoz , Tracy R. Slatyer

The cosmic 21-cm signal promises to revolutionize studies of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Radio interferometers are aiming for a preliminary, low signal-to-noise (S/N) detection of the 21-cm power spectrum. Cross-correlating 21-cm with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Samuel Gagnon-Hartman , James E. Davies , Andrei Mesinger

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