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The 21 cm transition from neutral Hydrogen promises to be the best observational probe of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). This has led to the construction of low-frequency radio interferometric arrays, such as the Hydrogen Epoch of…

The redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) can potentially be detected using low-frequency radio instruments such as the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). So far, LOFAR upper limits on the 21-cm signal…

Motivated by the desire for wide-field images with well-defined statistical properties for 21cm cosmology, we implement an optimal mapping pipeline that computes a maximum likelihood estimator for the sky using the interferometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-28 Zhilei Xu , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , Kai-Feng Chen , Honggeun Kim , Joshua S. Dillon , Nicholas S. Kern , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna J. Hazelton , Ruby Byrne , Nicolas Fagnoni , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Zara Abdurashidova , Tyrone Adams , James E. Aguirre , Paul Alexander , Zaki S. Ali , Rushelle Baartman , Yanga Balfour , Adam P. Beardsley , Gianni Bernardi , Tashalee S. Billings , Judd D. Bowman , Richard F. Bradley , Philip Bull , Jacob Burba , Steven Carey , Chris L. Carilli , Carina Cheng , David R. DeBoer , Matt Dexter , Nico Eksteen , John Ely , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Randall Fritz , Steven R. Furlanetto , Kingsley Gale-Sides , Brian Glendenning , Deepthi Gorthi , Bradley Greig , Jasper Grobbelaar , Ziyaad Halday , Jack Hickish , Daniel C. Jacobs , Austin Julius , MacCalvin Kariseb , Joshua Kerrigan , Piyanat Kittiwisit , Saul A. Kohn , Matthew Kolopanis , Adam Lanman , Paul La Plante , Adrian Liu , Anita Loots , Yin-zhe Ma , David Harold Edward MacMahon , Lourence Malan , Cresshim Malgas , Keith Malgas , Bradley Marero , Zachary E. Martinot , Andrei Mesinger , Mathakane Molewa , Tshegofalang Mosiane , Steven G. Murray , Abraham R. Neben , Bojan Nikolic , Hans Nuwegeld , Aaron R. Parsons , Nipanjana Patra , Samantha Pieterse , Jonathan C. Pober , Nima Razavi-Ghods , James Robnett , Kathryn Rosie , Peter Sims , Craig Smith , Hilton Swarts , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Pieter Van Van Wyngaarden , Peter K. G. Williams , Haoxuan Zheng

Building the radio sky template are crucial for detecting the 21 cm emission line signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), as well as for other cosmological research endeavors. Utilizing data from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Jinyang Lin , Zhenghao Zhu , Renyi Ma , Anna Bonaldi , Huanyuan Shan

Cross-correlation between the redshifted 21 cm signal and Lyman-{\alpha} emitters (LAEs) is powerful tool to probe the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Although the cross-power spectrum (PS) has an advantage of not correlating with foregrounds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 S. Yoshiura , J. L. B. Line , K. Kubota , K. Hasegawa , K. Takahashi

The global 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts $z \sim 6-30$, probes the nature of first sources of radiation as well as physics of the Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM). Given that the signal is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Saurabh Singh , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N. Udaya Shankar , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , B. S. Girish , A. Raghunathan , R. Somashekar , K. S. Srivani

The 21 cm emission of neutral hydrogen is the most promising probe of the epoch of reionization(EoR). In the next few years, the SKA pathfinders will provide statistical measurements of this signal. Numerical simulations predicting these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Baek , P. Di Matteo , B. Semelin , F. Combes , Y. Revaz

21cm radiation from neutral hydrogen serves as a direct probe of the Epoch of Reionization. However, both its detection and physical interpretation are severely hindered by contamination from astrophysical foreground emission and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Anirban Chakraborty , Kwanit Gangopadhyay , Arka Banerjee , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Interferometric experiments designed to detect the highly redshifted 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen are producing increasingly stringent constraints on the 21-cm power spectrum, but some k-modes remain systematics-dominated. Mutual…

Radio interferometers, such as the Low-Frequency Array and the future Square Kilometre Array, are attempting to measure the spherically averaged 21-cm power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization. Understanding of the dominant physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Ivelin Georgiev , Garrelt Mellema , Sambit K. Giri , Rajesh Mondal

The overwhelming foreground causes severe contamination on the detection of 21-cm signal during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Among various foreground components, the Galactic free-free emission is less studied, so that its impact on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-07 Xiaoli Lian , Haiguang Xu , Dongchao Zheng , Zhenghao Zhu , Dan Hu

We have used semi-numerical simulations of reionization to study the behaviour of the power spectrum of the EoR 21-cm signal in redshift space. We have considered two models of reionization, one which has homogeneous recombination (HR) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Suman Majumdar , Somnath Bharadwaj , T. Roy Choudhury

Numerous studies have established the theoretical potential of the 21cm bispectrum to boost our understanding of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), and therefore early generation of stars and galaxies. In this paper we look at the impact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Catherine A Watkinson , Cathryn M Trott , Ian Hothi

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) remains a poorly understood cosmic era for the most part. Yet, efforts are still going on to probe and understand this epoch. We present a review of the latest developments in the techniques (especially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Chandra Shekhar Murmu , Raghunath Ghara , Suman Majumdar , Kanan K. Datta

Recently, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) collaboration has produced the experiment's first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21-cm fluctuations at z~8 and 10. Here, we use several independent theoretical models to infer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 The HERA Collaboration , Zara Abdurashidova , James E. Aguirre , Paul Alexander , Zaki Ali , Yanga Balfour , Rennan Barkana , Adam Beardsley , Gianni Bernardi , Tashalee Billings , Judd Bowman , Richard Bradley , Phillip Bull , Jacob Burba , Steven Carey , Christopher Carilli , Carina Cheng , David DeBoer , Matthew Dexter , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Joshua Dillon , John Ely , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Nicolas Fagnoni , Anastasia Fialkov , Randall Fritz , Steven Furlanetto , Kingsley Gale-Sides , Brian Glendenning , Deepthi Gorthi , Bradley Greig , Jasper Grobbelaar , Ziyaad Halday , Bryna Hazelton , Stefan Heimersheim , Jacqueline Hewitt , Jack Hickish , Daniel Jacobs , Austin Julius , Nicholas Kern , Joshua Kerrigan , Piyanat Kittiwisit , Saul Kohn , Matthew Kolopanis , Adam Lanman , Paul La Plante , Telalo Lekalake , David Lewis , Adrian Liu , Yin-Zhe Ma , David MacMahon , Lourence Malan , Cresshim Malgas , Matthys Maree , Zachary Martinot , Eunice Matsetela , Andrei Mesinger , Jordan Mirocha , Mathakane Molewa , Miguel Morales , Tshegofalang Mosiane , Julian Munoz , Steven Murray , Abraham Neben , Bojan Nikolic , Chuneeta Devi Nunhokee , Aaron Parsons , Nipanjana Patra , Samantha Pieterse , Jonathan Pober , Yuxiang Qin , N. Razavi-Ghods , Itamar Reis , Jon Ringuette , James Robnett , Kathryn Rosie , Mario Santos , Sudipta Sikder , Peter Sims , Craig Smith , Angelo Syce , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Peter Williams , Haoxuan Zheng

One of the critical challenges facing imaging studies of the 21-cm signal at the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is the separation of astrophysical foreground contamination. These foregrounds are known to lie in a wedge-shaped region of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Samuel Gagnon-Hartman , Yue Cui , Jacob Kennedy , Adrian Liu , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

We present the first of two papers dedicated to verifying the Australian Epoch of Reionisation pipeline (AusEoRPipe) through simulation. The AusEoRPipe aims to disentangle 21-cm radiation emitted by gas surrounding the very first stars from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 J. L. B. Line , C. M. Trott , J. H. Cook , B. Greig , N. Barry , C. H. Jordan

The redshifted 21 cm signal from the cosmic dawn and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) encodes important information about both astrophysical processes and primordial physics, such as inflation. In this work, we use morphological statistics to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Kanan Virkar , Suvedha Suresh Naik , Pravabati Chingangbam

The period in which hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) is ionized, known as the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is still poorly understood. The timing and duration of the EoR is expected to be governed by the underlying astrophysics.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Michael Pagano , Hannah Fronenberg

A detection of the 21-cm signal power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization is imminent, thanks to consistent advancements from telescopes such as LOFAR, MWA, and HERA, along with the development of SKA. In light of this progress, it is…