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The CosmoCube project plans to deploy a global 21-cm spectrometer with 10-100 MHz observation band in a lunar orbit. The farside part of such an orbit, i.e. the part of orbit behind the Moon, offers an ideal site for accurately measuring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Jiacong Zhu , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Kaan Artuc , Xuelei Chen

[Abridged] The spatially averaged global spectrum of the redshifted 21cm line has generated much experimental interest, for it is potentially a direct probe of the Epoch of Reionization and the Dark Ages. Since the cosmological signal here…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-07 Adrian Liu , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Max Tegmark , Abraham Loeb

Instruments targeting 21~cm emission at high redshifts need a spectral dynamic range of better than ten thousand to distinguish the 21~cm background against bright foregrounds. Systematics arising from the antenna pattern are a leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Daniel C. Jacobs

The sky-averaged, or global, background of redshifted $21$ cm radiation is expected to be a rich source of information on cosmological reheating and reionizaton. However, measuring the signal is technically challenging: one must extract a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Tejaswi Venumadhav , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Christopher M. Hirata

Observation of the redshifted 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization is a challenging endeavor in observational cosmology. Presence of orders of magnitude brighter astrophysical foregrounds and various instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Aishrila Mazumder , Abhirup Datta , Arnab Chakraborty , Suman Majumdar

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn (CD) are pivotal stages during the first billion years of the universe, exerting a significant influence on the development of cosmic structure. The detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Anshuman Tripathi , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder , Suman Majumdar

Radiometers are crucial instruments in radio astronomy, forming the primary component of nearly all radio telescopes. They measure the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, converting this radiation into electrical signals. A radiometer's…

Radiometer experiments to detect 21-cm Hydrogen line emission from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization rely upon precise absolute calibration. During calibration, noise generated by amplifiers within the radiometer receiver must be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Danny C. Price , Cheuk-Yu Edward Tong , Adrian T. Sutinjo , Nipanjana Patra , Lincoln J. Greenhill

The study of the cosmic Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) using the all-sky averaged redshifted HI 21cm signal, are some of the key science goals of most of the ongoing or upcoming experiments, for example, EDGES,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-24 Madhurima Choudhury , Abhirup Datta , Arnab Chakraborty

The EDGES High-Band experiment aims to detect the sky-average brightness temperature of the $21$-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in the redshift range $14.8 \gtrsim z \gtrsim 6.5$. To probe this redshifted signal, EDGES…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Raul A. Monsalve , Alan E. E. Rogers , Judd D. Bowman , Thomas J. Mozdzen

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

In this paper, we propose a novel method to recover the 21cm global signal from the 21cm power spectrum using artificial neural networks (ANNs). The 21cm global signal is crucial for understanding cosmic evolution from the Dark Ages through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hayato Shimabukuro

21 cm Epoch of Reionization observations promise to transform our understanding of galaxy formation, but these observations are impossible without unprecedented levels of instrument calibration. We present end-to-end simulations of a full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-09 N. Barry , B. Hazelton , I. Sullivan , M. F. Morales , J. C. Pober

The residual gain errors add to the systematics of the radio interferometric observations. In case of the high dynamic range observations, these systematic effects dominates over the thermal noise of the observation. In this work, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Jais Kumar , Prasun Dutta , Nirupam Roy

Observation of multifrequency angular power spectrum of the redshifted 21-cm brightness temperature fluctuation from the neutral hydrogen holds the key to understand the structure formation and its evolution during the reionization and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Saikat Gayen , Jais Kumar , Prasun Dutta , Khandakar Md Asif Elahi , Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy

Experimental 21 cm cosmology aims to detect the formation of the first stars during the cosmic dawn and the subsequent epoch of reionization by utilizing the 21 cm hydrogen line transition. While several experiments have published results…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 John Cumner , Carla Pieterse , Dirk De Villiers , Eloy de Lera Acedo

A redshifted 21 cm line absorption signature is commonly expected from the cosmic dawn era, when the first stars and galaxies formed. The detailed traits of this signal can provide important insight on the cosmic history. However, high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Yuan Shi , Furen Deng , Yidong Xu , Fengquan Wu , Qisen Yan , Xuelei Chen

Cosmological measurements of the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen are poised to dramatically enhance our understanding of the early universe. In particular, both the epochs of reionization and cosmic dawn remain largely uncharted, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Julian B. Muñoz , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

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
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