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The long wavelength modes lost to bright foregrounds in the interferometric 21-cm surveys can partially be recovered using a forward modeling approach that exploits the non-linear coupling between small and large scales induced by…

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The redshifted 21\,cm line is an emerging tool in observational cosmology that can serve as a direct probe of the intergalactic medium throughout the cosmic timeline. However, the observation of the cosmological 21\,cm signal from early…

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The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature, imprinted in the transverse and radial clustering of dark matter tracers, enables the simultaneous measurement of the angular diameter distance $D_A(z)$ and the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ at a…

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Recent development in the reconstruction of the large-scale structure (LSS) has seen significant improvement in restoring the linear baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) from at least the non-linear matter field. This outstanding performance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xin Wang , Ue-Li Pen

The cosmic curvature density parameter has been constrained in the present work independent of any background cosmological model. The reconstruction is performed adopting the non-parametric Gaussian Processes (GP). The constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Purba Mukherjee , Narayan Banerjee

The use of standard rulers, such as the scale of the Baryonic Acoustic oscillations (BAO), has become one of the more powerful techniques employed in cosmology to probe the entity driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Caroline Zunckel , J. Richard Gott , Ragnhild Lunnan

The 21 cm radiation of neutral hydrogen provides crucial information for studying the early universe and its evolution. To advance this research, countries have made significant investments in constructing large low-frequency radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Ming-wei Qin , Rui Tang , Ying-hui Zhou , Chang-jun Lan , Wen-hao Fu , Huan Wang , Bao-lin Hou , Zamri , Jin-song Ping , Wen-jun Yang , Liang Dong

In the search for stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWB) of cosmological origin with LISA, it is crucial to account for realistic complications in the noise and astrophysical foreground modeling that may impact the signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 Jun'ya Kume , Marco Peloso , Mauro Pieroni , Angelo Ricciardone

Potential evidence for primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is expected to lie in the largest scales mapped by cosmological surveys. Forthcoming 21cm intensity mapping experiments will aim to probe these scales by surveying neutral hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-20 Steven Cunnington , Stefano Camera , Alkistis Pourtsidou

21-cm intensity surveys aim to map neutral hydrogen atoms in the universe through hyper-fine emission. Unfortunately, long-wavelength (low-wavenumber) radial modes are highly contaminated by smooth astrophysical foregrounds that are six…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Naim Goksel Karacayli , Nikhil Padmanabhan

Line-of-sight distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), including gravitational lensing, cosmic birefringence, and patchy screening, encode crucial cosmological information. While quadratic estimators (QE) have been excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-06 Omar Darwish

One of the main goals of modern observational cosmology is to map the large scale structure of the Universe. A potentially powerful approach for doing this would be to exploit three-dimensional spectral maps, i.e. the specific intensity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Roland de Putter , Gilbert P. Holder , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Dore

21cm intensity mapping experiments aim to observe the diffuse neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution on large scales which traces the Cosmic structure. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have the capacity to measure the 21cm signal over a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Laura Wolz , Filipe B. Abdalla , David Alonso , Chris Blake , Philip Bull , Tzu-Ching Chang , Pedro G. Ferreira , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Marios G. Santos , Richard Shaw

We present cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the pre- and post-reconstruction galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the final data release of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Geometric constraints are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

An improved method for subtracting contaminants from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) sky maps is presented, and used to estimate how well future experiments will be able to recover the primordial CMB fluctuations. We find that the naive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Max Tegmark , George Efstathiou

Neutral hydrogen intensity mapping can in principle deliver rapid and large-volume cosmological surveys with exquisitely accurate redshifts that are determined directly from imaging. However, intensity maps suffer from very strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Rahul Kothari , Roy Maartens

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

Upcoming 21cm surveys with the SKA1-LOW telescope will enable imaging of the neutral hydrogen distribution on cosmological scales in the early Universe. These surveys are expected to generate huge imaging datasets that will encode more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Tumelo Mangena , Sultan Hassan , Mario G. Santos

We present the first statistically significant detection of cosmic structure using broadly distributed hydrogen radio emission. This is accomplished using a cross correlation with optical galaxies. Statistical noise levels of $20 \mu $K are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ue-Li Pen , Lister Staveley-Smith , Jeffrey Peterson , Tzu-Ching Chang

Several cosmological measurements have attained significant levels of maturity and accuracy over the last decade. Continuing this trend, future observations promise measurements of the statistics of the cosmic mass distribution at an…

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