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21cm emission from residual neutral hydrogen after the epoch of reionization can be used to trace the cosmological power spectrum of density fluctuations. Using a Fisher matrix formulation, we provide a detailed forecast of the constraints…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eli Visbal , Abraham Loeb , Stuart Wyithe

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted much attention as a promising approach to alleviate spectrum congestion. However, traditional ISAC systems rely on phased arrays to provide high spatial diversity, where enormous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

To create high-fidelity cosmic microwave background maps, current component separation methods rely on availability of information on different foreground components, usually through multi-band frequency coverage of the instrument. Internal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Guillermo F. Quispe Peña , Andrei V. Frolov

Correlations between cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature, polarization and spectral distortion anisotropies can be used as a probe of primordial non-Gaussianity. Here, we perform a reconstruction of $\mu$-distortion anisotropies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 M. Remazeilles , J. Chluba

We describe a new technique for constraining the radio loud population of active galactic nuclei at high redshift by measuring the imprint of 21 cm spectral absorption features (the 21 cm forest) on the 21 cm power spectrum. Using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-03 Aaron Ewall-Wice , Joshua S. Dillon , Andrei Mesinger , Jacqueline Hewitt

The 21 cm signal from cosmic hydrogen is one of the most propitious probes of the early Universe. The detection of this signal would reveal key information about the first stars, the nature of dark matter, and early structure formation. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Joe H. N. Pattison , Dominic J. Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo

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

Different physical processes in galaxy evolution, such as galaxy mergers that lead to coalescence of dual Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and outflows emanating from the narrow line region, can leave their imprint on the optical spectra of AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-08 Rajeshwari Dutta , Raghunathan Srianand

We use cosmological simulations of reionization to predict the possible signal from the redshifted 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen in the pre-reionization era and to investigate the observability of this signal. We show that the separation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Peter A. Shaver

Efforts are underway to measure the global 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen, which is a powerful probe of the early universe, using NASA radio telescopes on the far side of the Moon. Physics-based models of the signal are computationally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 J. Dorigo Jones , J. O. Burns , D. Rapetti , Shah Mohammad Bahauddin , B. Reyes , D. W. Barker

Before it becomes a sensitive probe of the Epoch of Reionization, the Dark Ages, and fundamental physics, 21 cm tomography must successfully contend with the issue of foreground contamination. Broadband foreground sources are expected to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-16 Adrian Liu , Max Tegmark

In order to study the "Cosmic Dawn" and the Epoch of Reionization with 21 cm tomography, we need to statistically separate the cosmological signal from foregrounds known to be orders of magnitude brighter. Over the last few years, we have…

We revisit the global 21cm signal calculation incorporating a possible radio background at early times, and find that the global 21cm signal shows a much stronger absorption feature, which could enhance detection prospects for future 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Chang Feng , Gilbert Holder

The precise form of the foregrounds for sky-averaged measurements of the 21-cm line during and before the epoch of reionization is unknown. We suggest that the level of complexity in the foreground models used to fit global 21-cm data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Geraint Harker

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising probe to study star formation, the large-scale structure of the Universe, and the epoch of reionization (EoR). Since carbon monoxide (CO) is the second most abundant molecule in the Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Meng Zhang , Bin Yue , Xuelei Chen

We present a detection of 21-cm emission from large-scale structure (LSS) between redshift 0.78 and 1.43 made with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). Radio observations acquired over 102 nights are used to construct…

Cosmic birefringence, arising from a potential parity-violating interaction between cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons and evolving pseudo-scalar fields such as axion-like particles, can rotate the CMB polarization plane and induce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Mathieu Remazeilles

Cosmic Microwave Background experiments from COBE to Planck, have launched cosmology into an era of precision science, where many cosmological parameters are now determined to the percent level. Next generation telescopes, focussing on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Claude J. Schmit , Alan F. Heavens , Jonathan R. Pritchard

The cosmic microwave background absorption intensity in the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen in the presence of additional power in the form of a "bump" in the spectrum of cosmological density perturbations is calculated. The main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Yu. N. Eroshenko , V. N. Lukash , E. V. Mikheeva , S. V. Pilipenko , M. V. Tkachev

Power spectrum estimators are an important tool in efforts to detect the 21 cm brightness temperature fluctuations from neutral hydrogen at early times. An initial detection will likely be statistical in nature, meaning that it will not be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Jacob Burba , Philip Bull , Michael J. Wilensky , Fraser Kennedy , Hugh Garsden , Katrine A. Glasscock