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Using a suite of detailed numerical simulations we estimate the level of anisotropy generated by the time evolution along the light cone of the 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization. Our simulations include the physics necessary to…

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The formation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) provides a very powerful probe of the early universe at the epoch of recombination. Specifically, it is possible to constrain the variation of fundamental physical constants…

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We investigate how precisely we can determine the nature of dark energy such as the equation of state (EoS) and its time dependence by using future observations of 21 cm fluctuations at the epoch of reionization (6.8 <~ z <~ 10) such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-07 Kazunori Kohri , Yoshihiko Oyama , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Tomo Takahashi

Heating of neutral gas by energetic sources is crucial for the prediction of the 21 cm signal during the epoch of reionization (EoR). To investigate differences induced on statistics of the 21 cm signal by various source types, we use five…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Qing-Bo Ma , Benedetta Ciardi , Marius B. Eide , Philipp Busch , Yi Mao , Qi-Jun Zhi

Future observations of 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen survey will become a promising approach to probe the large scale structure of Universe. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of Square Kilometer Array (SKA) 21 cm observation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 Jing-Fei Zhang , Li-Yang Gao , Dong-Ze He , Xin Zhang

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 a sophisticated statistical point-source foreground model for low-frequency radio Epoch of Reionization (EoR) experiments using the 21 cm neutral hydrogen emission line. Motivated by our understanding of the low-frequency radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Steven G. Murray , Cathryn M. Trott , Christopher H. Jordan

We investigate the effects of isocurvature perturbations on the 21cm radiation from minihaloes (MHs) at high redshifts and examine constraints on the isocurvature amplitude and power spectrum using the next generation of radio telescopes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Yoshitaka Takeuchi , Sirichai Chongchitnan

We explore the impact of dark matter annihilation on the 21-cm signal during the cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization (EoR). Using modified 21cmFAST simulations and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), we investigate how energy injected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Kenji Kadota

The damping of primordial perturbations at small scales gives rise to distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Here, the dependence of the distortion on the different types of cosmological initial conditions is explored,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-18 Jens Chluba , Daniel Grin

The statistical properties of the primordial density perturbations has been considered in the past decade as a powerful probe of the physical processes taking place in the early universe. Within the inflationary paradigm, the properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Gabriel Leon , Daniel Sudarsky

The formation of the first stars is an exciting frontier area in astronomy. Early redshifts z ~ 20 have become observationally promising as a result of a recently recognized effect of a supersonic relative velocity between the dark matter…

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There is growing interest in using 3-dimensional neutral hydrogen mapping with the redshifted 21 cm line as a cosmological probe, as it has been argued to have a greater long-term potential than the cosmic microwave background. However, its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi Mao , Max Tegmark , Matthew McQuinn , Matias Zaldarriaga , Oliver Zahn

The cosmological 21cm signal is a physics-rich probe of the early Universe, encoding information about both the ionization and the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM). The latter is likely governed by X-rays from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-17 Fabio Pacucci , Andrei Mesinger , Stefano Mineo , Andrea Ferrara

One of the most promising ways to study the epoch of reionization (EoR) is through radio observations of the redshifted 21-cm line emission from neutral hydrogen. These observations are complicated by the fact that the mapping of redshifts…

Spectral measurements of the 21 cm monopole background have the promise of revealing the bulk energetic properties and ionization state of our universe from z ~ 6-30. Synchrotron foregrounds are orders of magnitude larger than the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 Eric R. Switzer , Adrian Liu

Measurements of the 21cm line emission by residual cosmic hydrogen after reionization can be used to trace the power spectrum of density perturbations through a significant fraction of the observable volume of the Universe. We show that a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Abraham Loeb , Stuart Wyithe

A development of perturbations of number densities of ions and electrons during recombination epoch is analysed. The equations for relative perturbations of ionization fractions were derived from the system of equations for accurate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Novosyadlyj

High-number-density tracers of large-scale structure, such as the HI-rich galaxies measured by 21 cm intensity mapping, have low sampling noise, making them particularly promising as cosmological probes. At large scales, this sampling noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Simon Foreman , Andrej Obuljen , Marko Simonović