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During cosmic reionization, the 21-cm brightness fluctuations were highly non-Gaussian, and complementary statistics can be extracted from the distribution of pixel brightness temperatures that are not derivable from the 21-cm power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-27 Tony Pan , Rennan Barkana

Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropies from Planck have estimated a lower value of the optical depth to reionization ($\tau$) compared to WMAP. A significant period in the reionization history would then fall…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli , George F. Smoot

The large-angle polarization anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) arise from Thomson scattering of CMB photons off free electrons in the post-recombination Universe. In the standard $\Lambda$ cold dark matter cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Hanyu Cheng , Ziwen Yin , Eleonora Di Valentino , David J. E. Marsh , Luca Visinelli

Given that the reionization history of cosmic hydrogen is yet to be stringently constrained, it is worth checking the prospects of doing so using physically motivated models and available observational data. For this purpose, we use an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-04 Barun Maity , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

High-redshift 21-cm observations will provide crucial insights into the physical processes of the Epoch of Reionization. Next-generation interferometers such as the Square Kilometer Array will have enough sensitivity to directly image the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Simon Gazagnes , Léon V. E. Koopmans , Michael H. F. Wilkinson

One of the most promising probes to constrain the reionization history of the universe is the power spectrum of neutral hydrogen 21 cm emission fluctuations. The corresponding analyses require computationally efficient modelling of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Barun Maity , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) features a rich interplay between the first luminous sources and the low-density gas of the intergalactic medium (IGM), where photons from these sources ionize the IGM. There are currently few observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Paul La Plante , Michelle Ntampaka

Improving our knowledge of global Milky Way (MW) properties is critical for connecting the detailed measurements only possible from within our Galaxy to our understanding of the broader galaxy population. We train Gaussian Process…

Radio observations of the neutral hydrogen signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation have helped to provide constraints on the properties of the first stars and galaxies. Since this global 21-cm cosmological signal from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Christian J. Kirkham , Dominic J. Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo

The 21-cm PDF (i.e., distribution of pixel brightness temperatures) is expected to be highly non-Gaussian during reionization and to provide important information on the distribution of density and ionization. We measure the 21-cm PDF as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kazuhide Ichikawa , Rennan Barkana , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Paul Shapiro

Atmospheric retrievals are essential tools for interpreting exoplanet transmission and eclipse spectra, enabling quantitative constraints on the chemical composition, aerosol properties, and thermal structure of planetary atmospheres. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Yoav Rotman , Luis Welbanks , Michael R. Line , Peter McGill , Michael Radica , Matthew C. Nixon

Mismodeling the uncertain, diffuse emission of Galactic origin can seriously bias the characterization of astrophysical gamma-ray data, particularly in the region of the Inner Milky Way where such emission can make up over 80% of the photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Kyle Cranmer

We extend 21CMMC, a Monte Carlo Markov Chain sampler of 3D reionisation simulations, to perform parameter estimation directly on 3D light-cones of the cosmic 21cm signal. This brings theoretical analysis closer to the tomographic 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger

We present a method for extracting the expected cosmological 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization, taking into account contaminating radiations and random instrumental noise. The method is based on the maximum a-posteriori…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-21 Liron Gleser , Adi Nusser , Andrew J. Benson

The last two decades have seen a major expansion in the availability, size, and precision of time-domain datasets in astronomy. Owing to their unique combination of flexibility, mathematical simplicity and comparative robustness, Gaussian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Suzanne Aigrain , Daniel Foreman-Mackey

Gaussian process regression (GPR) is a popular nonparametric Bayesian method that provides predictive uncertainty estimates and is widely used in safety-critical applications. While prior research has introduced various uncertainty bounds,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Junyi Liu , Stanley Kok

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

In this article, we consider the general task of performing Gaussian process regression (GPR) on pointwise observations of solutions of the 3 dimensional homogeneous free space wave equation.In a recent article, we obtained promising…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Iain Henderson , Pascal Noble , Olivier Roustant

We study the prospects for extracting cosmological and astrophysical parameters from the low radio frequency 21-cm background due to the spin-flip transition of neutral Hydrogen during and prior to the reionization of the Universe. We make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mario G. Santos , Asantha Cooray

Modern machine learning will allow for simulation-based inference from reionization-era 21cm observations at the Square Kilometre Array. Our framework combines a convolutional summary network and a conditional invertible network through a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Benedikt Schosser , Caroline Heneka , Tilman Plehn