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HI intensity mapping is a new observational technique to map fluctuations in the large-scale structure of matter using the 21 cm emission line of atomic hydrogen (HI). Sensitive radio surveys have the potential to detect Baryon Acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 L. C. Olivari , M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson

The 21-cm intensity mapping (IM) of neutral hydrogen (HI) is a promising tool to probe the large-scale structures. Sky maps of 21-cm intensities can be highly contaminated by different foregrounds, such as Galactic synchrotron radiation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Elimboto Yohana , Yin-Zhe Ma , Di Li , Xuelei Chen , Wei-Ming Dai

The Generalized Needlet Internal Linear Combination (GNILC) method is a non-parametric component separation algorithm to remove the foreground contamination of the 21-cm intensity mapping data. In this work, we perform the Discrete Cosine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Wei-Ming Dai , Yin-Zhe Ma

Neutral Hydrogen Intensity Mapping (HI IM) surveys will be a powerful new probe of cosmology. However, strong astrophysical foregrounds contaminate the signal and their coupling with instrumental systematics further increases the data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Marta Spinelli , Isabella P. Carucci , Steven Cunnington , Stuart E. Harper , Melis O. Irfan , José Fonseca , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Laura Wolz

21 cm intensity mapping has emerged as a promising technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, the presence of foregrounds with amplitudes orders of magnitude larger than the cosmological signal constitutes a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Isabella P. Carucci , Melis O. Irfan , Jérôme Bobin

This paper introduces a technique called NKL, which cleans both polarized and unpolarized foregrounds from HI intensity maps by applying a Karhunen-Lo\`eve transform on the needlet coefficients. In NKL, one takes advantage of correlations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 John Podczerwinski , Peter Timbie

21-cm intensity mapping (IM) is a powerful technique to probe the large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) and extract cosmological information such as the baryon acoustic oscillation feature. A key challenge lies in recovering the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Zitong Wang , Feng Shi , Le Zhang , Yanming Liu , Xiaoping Li , Shulei Ni , Ming Jiang , Xiaofan Ma

Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping with single-dish experiments is a powerful approach for probing cosmology in the post-reionization epoch. However, the presence of bright foregrounds over four orders of magnitude stronger than the HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Athanasia Gkogkou , Victor Bonjean , Jean-Luc Starck , Marta Spinelli , Panagiotis Tsakalides

The high dynamic range between contaminating foreground emission and the fluctuating 21cm brightness temperature field is one of the most problematic characteristics of 21cm intensity mapping data. While these components would ordinarily…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Melis O. Irfan , Philip Bull

We present a survey strategy to detect the neutral hydrogen (HI) power spectrum at $5<z<6$ using the SKA-Low radio telescope in presence of foregrounds and instrumental effects. We simulate observations of the inherently weak HI signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Zhaoting Chen , Emma Chapman , Laura Wolz , Aishrila Mazumder

Removing contaminants is a delicate, yet crucial step in neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping and often considered the technique's greatest challenge. Here, we address this challenge by analysing HI intensity maps of about $100$ deg$^2$…

In the neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) survey, the foreground contamination on the cosmological signals is extremely severe, and the systematic effects caused by radio telescopes themselves further aggravate the difficulties in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-28 Shulei Ni , Yichao Li , Li-Yang Gao , Xin Zhang

To recover the 21 cm hydrogen line, it is essential to separate the cosmological signal from the much stronger foreground contributions at radio frequencies. The BINGO radio telescope is designed to measure the 21 cm line and detect BAOs…

We seek to remove foreground contaminants from 21cm intensity mapping observations. We demonstrate that a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) with a UNet architecture and three-dimensional convolutions, trained on simulated…

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

One of the key steps in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis is component separation to recover the CMB signal from multi-frequency observations contaminated by foreground emissions. Needlet Internal Linear Combination (NILC) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Debabrata Adak

The neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) survey is regarded as a promising approach for cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) studies. A major issue for the HI IM survey is to remove the bright foreground contamination. A key to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Li-Yang Gao , Yichao Li , Shulei Ni , Xin Zhang

Upcoming and future neutral hydrogen Intensity Mapping surveys offer a great opportunity to constrain cosmology in the post-reionization Universe, provided a good accuracy is achieved in the separation between the strong foregrounds and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-02 Siyambonga D. Matshawule , Marta Spinelli , Mario G. Santos , Sibonelo Ngobese

We make use of a large set of fast simulations of an intensity mapping experiment with characteristics similar to those expected of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in order to study the viability and limits of blind foreground subtraction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Alonso , Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos

HI intensity mapping is an emerging tool to probe dark energy. Observations of the redshifted HI signal will be contaminated by instrumental noise, atmospheric and Galactic foregrounds. The latter is expected to be four orders of magnitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , C. Dickinson , R. A. Battye , I. W. A. Browne , Y. -Z. Ma , B. Maffei , F. Noviello , M. Remazeilles , P. N. Wilkinson
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