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Foreground mitigation is critical to all next-generation radio interferometers that target cosmology using the redshifted neutral hydrogen 21 cm emission line. Attempts to remove this foreground emission have led to new analysis techniques…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-22 Kalyani Bhopi , Will Tyndall , Pranav Sanghavi , Kevin Bandura , Laura Newburgh , Jason Gallicchio

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) allow high precision observation of the cosmic plasma at redshift z~1100. After the success of the NASA satellite COBE, that in 1992 provided the first detection of the CMB anisotropy,…

Detecting neutral Hydrogen (H\,{\sc i}) via the 21~cm line emission from the intergalactic medium at $z\gtrsim 6$ has been identified as one of the most promising probes of the epoch of cosmic reionization -- a major phase transition of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Chris Carilli , Bojan Nikolic

The rapid evolution of the cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution during the EoR is imprinted along the line of sight (LoS) in the redshifted 21-cm signal due to the light cone (LC) effect. The LC EoR 21-cm signal ceases to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Suman Pramanick , Somnath Bharadwaj , Khandakar Md Asif Elahi , Rajesh Mondal

The redshifted 21-cm emission by neutral hydrogen offers a unique tool for mapping structure formation in the early universe in three dimensions. Here we provide the first detailed calculation of the 21-cm emission signal during and after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anastasia Fialkov , Abraham Loeb

The 10m Prototype facility at the Albert-Einstein-Institute (AEI) in Hanover, Germany, employs three large seismic attenuation systems to reduce mechanical motion. The AEI Seismic-Attenuation-System (AEI-SAS) uses mechanical anti-springs in…

While the (weak) Equivalence Principle (EP) has been rigorously tested within the solar system, its validity on cosmological scales, particularly in the context of dark matter and dark energy, remains uncertain. In this study, we propose a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Guoyuan Lu , Yi Zheng , Le Zhang , Xiaodong Li , Jiacheng Ding , Kwan Chuen Chan

Horizon-T, a modern Extensive Air Showers (EAS) detector system, is constructed at Tien Shan high-altitude Science Station of Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences at approximately 3340 meters above the sea level in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-14 D. Beznosko , A. Iakovlev , A. Duspayev , M. I. Vildanova , T. Uakhitov , M. Yessenov , V. V. Zhukov

We are developing the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) to detect 21cm emission from the early Universe, when the first stars and galaxies were forming. We describe the overall experiment strategy and…

In the most distant reaches of the Universe, the 21-cm hyperfine transition in neutral hydrogen provides one of the only available tracers of large-scale structure. A number of instruments have been working and planned to measure the 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Teppei Minoda , Shohei Saga , Tomo Takahashi , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Daisuke Yamauchi , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Shintaro Yoshiura

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

The Robinson Telescope (BICEP) is a ground-based millimeter-wave bolometric array designed to study the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) and galactic foreground emission. Such measurements probe the energy…

We present a new upper limit to the 21cm power spectrum during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) which constrains reionization models with an unheated IGM. The GMRT-EoR experiment is an ongoing effort to make a statistical detection of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gregory Paciga , Tzu-Ching Chang , Yashwant Gupta , Rajaram Nityanada , Julia Odegova , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey Peterson , Jayanta Roy , Kris Sigurdson

The 21-cm forest, comprising narrow absorption features imprinted on the radio spectra of high-redshift radio-loud quasars by intervening neutral hydrogen, offers a uniquely sensitive probe of the thermal state of the neutral intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Sameer K. Patil , Tomáš Šoltinský , Soumak Maitra , Girish Kulkarni

One approach to extracting the global 21-cm signal from total-power measurements at low radio frequencies is to parametrize the different contributions to the data and then fit for these parameters. We examine parametrizations of the 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-04 Geraint J. A. Harker , Jordan Mirocha , Jack O. Burns , Jonathan R. Pritchard

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

We highlight recent progress in the sophistication and diversification of cosmic dawn and reionization simulations. The application of these modeling tools to current observations has allowed us narrow down the timing of reionization, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Andrei Mesinger

The CMB polarization is the Everest in the quest to characterize the earliest photons from the Universe. After a long list of ever-decreasing upper limits, a detection of polarization was made in 2002 by the DASI team at ell =~ 500. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Denis Barkats

Instruments targeting 21~cm emission at high redshifts need a spectral dynamic range of better than ten thousand to distinguish the 21~cm background against bright foregrounds. Systematics arising from the antenna pattern are a leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Daniel C. Jacobs

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed next-generation, underground gravitational-wave (GW) detector to be based in Europe. It will provide about an order of magnitude sensitivity increase with respect to currently operating detectors,…