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The 21-cm hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen is a useful tool to probe the conditions of the Universe during the Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and the Epoch of Reionisation. In most of the current calculations, the 21-cm line signals at given…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Jennifer Y. H. Chan , Qin Han , Kinwah Wu , Jason D. McEwen

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

The redshifted 21 cm line is an emerging tool in cosmology, in principle permitting three-dimensional surveys of our Universe that reach unprecedentedly large volumes, previously inaccessible length scales, and hitherto unexplored epochs of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Adrian Liu , J. Richard Shaw

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

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

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

Large inhomogeneities in neutral hydrogen in the universe can be detected at redshifts $z \leq 10$ using the redshifted 21 cm line emission. We use cosmological N-Body simulations for dark matter and a simple model for baryonic collapse to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. S. Bagla , Biman Nath , T. Padmanabhan

We introduce a Python package called ECHO21 for modelling the global 21-cm signal from the dark ages through cosmic dawn to the end of reionization. Leveraging its analytical framework, ECHO21 generates a single model in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Shikhar Mittal , Girish Kulkarni , Peter Sims

Measurement of the spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen via the redshifted 21 cm line promises to revolutionize our knowledge of the epoch of reionization and the first galaxies, and may provide a powerful new tool for observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Miguel F. Morales , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

The high-redshift 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen is expected to be observed within the next decade and will reveal epochs of cosmic evolution that have been previously inaccessible. Due to the lack of observations, many of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Aviad Cohen , Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana

Low-frequency radio observations of neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionization will provide hundreds of quasi-independent source planes, each of precisely known redshift, if a resolution of ~ 1 arcminutes or better…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 R. Benton Metcalf

New low frequency radio telescopes currently being built open up the possibility of observing the 21-cm radiation before the Epoch of Reionization in the future, in particular at redshifts 200 > z > 30, also known as the dark ages. At these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-03 Rishi Khatri , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Considerable observational efforts are being dedicated to measuring the sky-averaged (global) 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization. Deriving observational constraints on the astrophysics of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Christian H. Bye , Stephen K. N. Portillo , Anastasia Fialkov

We present detailed predictions for the redshifted 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization. These predictions are obtained from radiative transfer calculations on the results of large scale (100/h Mpc), high dynamic range, cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Garrelt Mellema , Ilian T. Iliev , Ue-Li Pen , Paul R. Shapiro

21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionisation is gravitationally lensed by material at all lower redshifts. Low-frequency radio observations of this emission can be used to reconstruct the projected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Stefan Hilbert , R. Benton Metcalf , S. D. M. White

The formation of the first galaxies during cosmic dawn and reionization (at redshifts $z=5-30$), triggered the last major phase transition of our universe, as hydrogen evolved from cold and neutral to hot and ionized. The 21-cm line of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Julian B. Muñoz , Yuxiang Qin , Andrei Mesinger , Steven G. Murray , Bradley Greig , Charlotte Mason

It is shown that 21 cm intensity mapping could be used in the near term to make cosmologically useful measurements. Large scale structure could be detected using existing radio telescopes, or using prototypes for dedicated redshift survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-13 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Patrick McDonald , Ue-Li Pen

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

Probing statistical distribution of the neutral hydrogen (\HI) using the redshifted 21-cm hyperfine-transition spectral line holds the key to understand the formation and evolution of the matter density in the universe. The two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-24 Urvashi Arora , Prasun Dutta