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Multiple instruments are pursuing constraints on dark energy, observing reionization and opening a window on the dark ages through the detection and characterization of the 21cm hydrogen line across the redshift spectrum, from nearby to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-11 Daniel C. Jacobs , Jacob Burba , Judd Bowman , Abraham R. Neben , Benjamin Stinnett , Lauren Turner

This paper is the first of a series reporting the results of the Australia Telescope ESO Slice Project (ATESP) radio survey obtained at 1400 MHz with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) close to the South Galactic Pole (SGP) over…

Detecting the cosmic 21-cm signal during the Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn will reveal insights into the properties of the first galaxies and advance cosmological parameter estimation. Until recently, the primary focus for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Bradley Greig , Yuan-Sen Ting , Alexander A. Kaurov

Most of the current Global 21-cm experiments include ground screens that help moderate effects from the Earth. In this paper, we report on a possible systematic artifact within the ground plane that may produce broad absorption features in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Richard F. Bradley , Keith Tauscher , David Rapetti , Jack O. Burns

Foreground subtraction in global redshifted 21 cm measurements is limited by frequency-dependent (chromatic) structure in antenna beam patterns. Chromatic beams couple angular structures in Galactic foreground emission to spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Thomas J. Mozdzen , Judd D. Bowman , Raul A. Monsalve , Alan E. E. Rogers

We present a differentiable, end-to-end Bayesian forward modeling framework for line intensity mapping cosmology experiments, with a specific focus on low-frequency radio telescopes targeting the redshifted 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Nicholas Kern

In 2018 the EDGES experiment claimed the first detection of the global cosmic 21cm signal, which featured an absorption trough centered around $z \sim 17$ with a depth of approximately -500mK. This amplitude is deeper than the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Junsong Cang , Andrei Mesinger , Steven G. Murray , Daniela Breitman , Yuxiang Qin , Roberto Trotta

In this paper, we propose a novel method to recover the 21cm global signal from the 21cm power spectrum using artificial neural networks (ANNs). The 21cm global signal is crucial for understanding cosmic evolution from the Dark Ages through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hayato Shimabukuro

Radio interferometric experiments aim to constrain the reionization model parameters by measuring the 21-cm signal statistics, primarily the power spectrum. However the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal is highly non-Gaussian, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Himanshu Tiwari , Abinash Kumar Shaw , Suman Majumdar , Mohd Kamran , Madhurima Choudhury

We investigate the 21-cm signature that may arise from the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of full reionization (z>5). In scenarios in which the IGM is reionized by discrete sources of photoionizing radiation, the neutral gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Piero Madau , Avery Meiksin , Martin J. Rees

Global 21cm experiments aim to measure the sky averaged HI absorption signal from cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionisation. However, antenna chromaticity coupling to bright foregrounds can introduce distortions into the observational data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-12 Dominic Anstey , John Cumner , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley

We report absolutely calibrated measurements of diffuse radio emission between 90 and 190 MHz from the Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES). EDGES employs a wide beam zenith-pointing dipole antenna centred on a declination…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Thomas. J. Mozdzen , Judd. D. Bowman , Raul. A. Monsalve , Alan. E. E. Rogers

Precision measurements of the beam pattern response are needed to predict the response of a radio telescope. Mapping the beam of a low frequency radio array presents a unique challenge and science cases such as the observation of the 21\,cm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Yifan Zhao , Daniel C. Jacobs , Titu Samson , Mrudula Gopal Krishna , Michael Horn , Marc-Olivier R. Lalonde , Raven Braithwaite , Logan Skabelund

A redshifted 21 cm line absorption signature is commonly expected from the cosmic dawn era, when the first stars and galaxies formed. The detailed traits of this signal can provide important insight on the cosmic history. However, high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Yuan Shi , Furen Deng , Yidong Xu , Fengquan Wu , Qisen Yan , Xuelei Chen

Detection of millikelvin-level signals from the 'Cosmic Dawn' requires an unprecedented level of sensitivity and systematic calibration. We report the theory behind a novel calibration algorithm developed from the formalism introduced by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-15 I. L. V. Roque , W. J. Handley , N. Razavi-Ghods

Global 21cm cosmology aims to investigate the cosmic dawn and epoch of reionisation by measuring the sky averaged HI absorption signal, which requires, accurate modelling of, or correction for, the bright radio foregrounds and distortions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Dominic Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley

The Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer (EoR-Spec) is an upcoming Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) instrument designed to study the evolution of the early universe (z = 3.5 to 8) by probing the redshifted [CII] 158 $\mu$m fine-structure line…

We develop a Bayesian model that jointly constrains receiver calibration, foregrounds and cosmic 21cm signal for the EDGES global 21\,cm experiment. This model simultaneously describes calibration data taken in the lab along with sky-data…

The cosmic 21-cm line of hydrogen is expected to be measured in detail by the next generation of radio telescopes. The enormous dataset from future 21-cm surveys will revolutionize our understanding of early cosmic times. We present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 Sudipta Sikder , Rennan Barkana , Itamar Reis , Anastasia Fialkov

Following the reported detection of an absorption profile associated with the 21~cm sky-averaged signal from the Cosmic Dawn by the EDGES experiment in 2018, a number of experiments have been set up to verify this result. This paper…