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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…

The deep learning technique has been employed in removing foreground contaminants from 21 cm intensity mapping, but its effectiveness is limited by the large dynamic range of the foreground amplitude. In this study, we develop a novel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-13 Feng Shi , Haoxiang Chang , Le Zhang , Huanyuan Shan , Jiajun Zhang , Suiping Zhou , Ming Jiang , Zitong Wang

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

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 21 cm intensity mapping provides a promising probe of the large-scale structure. Astrophysical foregrounds, as the main source of contamination to the cosmological 21 cm signal, persist in a wedge-like region of Fourier space due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kaifeng Yu , Xin Wang

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising probe to study star formation, the large-scale structure of the Universe, and the epoch of reionization (EoR). Since carbon monoxide (CO) is the second most abundant molecule in the Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Xingchen Zhou , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Meng Zhang , Bin Yue , Xuelei Chen

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

In 21cm intensity mapping of the large-scale structure (LSS), regions in Fourier space could be compromised by foreground contamination. In interferometric observations, this contamination, known as the foreground wedge, is exacerbated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Qian Li , Xin Wang , Xiaodong Li , Jiacheng Ding , Tiancheng Luan , Xiaolin Luo

21-cm Intensity Mapping (IM) is a promising approach to detecting information about the large-scale structure beyond the local universe. One of the biggest challenges for an IM observation is the foreground removal procedure. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Lin-Cheng Li , Jia-Yu Lin , Yuan-Gen Wang , Lister Staveley-Smith

Aiming to correctly restore the redshifted 21 cm signals emitted by the neutral hydrogen during the cosmic reionization processes, we re-examine the separation approaches based on the quadratic polynomial fitting technique in frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu , Tao An , Junhua Gu , Xueying Guo , Weitian Li , Yu Wang , Chengze Liu , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Xiang-Ping Wu

Deep learning (DL) has recently been proposed as a novel approach for 21cm foreground removal. Before applying DL to real observations, it is essential to assess its consistency with established methods, its performance across various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 T. Chen , M. Bianco , E. Tolley , M. Spinelli , D. Forero-Sanchez , J. P. Kneib

Mapping the distribution of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) in the Universe through its 21 cm emission line provides a powerful cosmological probe to map the large-scale structures and shed light on various cosmological phenomena. The Baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Albin Joseph , Rajib Saha

We present in this paper a new Bayesian semi-blind approach for foreground removal in observations of the 21-cm signal with interferometers. The technique, which we call HIEMICA (HI Expectation-Maximization Independent Component Analysis),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Le Zhang , Emory F. Bunn , Ata Karakci , Andrei Korotkov , P. M. Sutter , Peter T. Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The future of precision cosmology could benefit from cross-correlations between intensity maps of unresolved neutral hydrogen (HI) and more conventional optical galaxy surveys. A major challenge that needs to be overcome is removing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Steven Cunnington , Laura Wolz , Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon

The success of HI intensity mapping is largely dependent on how well 21cm foreground contamination can be controlled. In order to progress our understanding further, we present a range of simulated foreground data from four different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 Steven Cunnington , Melis O. Irfan , Isabella P. Carucci , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Jérôme Bobin

The redshifted 21~cm signal from neutral hydrogen (HI) is potentially a very powerful probe for cosmology, but a difficulty in its observation is that it is much weaker than foreground radiation from the Milky Way as well as extragalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-14 Shifan Zuo , Xuelei Chen , Reza Ansari , Youjun Lu

Foreground removal presents a significant obstacle in both current and forthcoming intensity mapping surveys. While numerous techniques have been developed that show promise in simulated datasets, their efficacy often diminishes when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Jiacheng Ding , Xin Wang , Ue-Li Pen , Xiao-Dong Li

Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) presents great promise for future cosmological large-scale structure surveys. However, a major challenge for HIIM cosmological studies is to accurately subtract the foreground contamination. An…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Xinyang Zhao , Yichao Li , Wenxiu Yang , Furen Deng , Yougang Wang , Fengquan Wu , Xin Wang , Xiaohui Sun , Xin Zhang , Xuelei Chen

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 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
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