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The redshifted 21\,cm line is an emerging tool in observational cosmology that can serve as a direct probe of the intergalactic medium throughout the cosmic timeline. However, the observation of the cosmological 21\,cm signal from early…

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The 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen is anticipated to reveal critical insights into the formation of early cosmic structures during the Cosmic Dawn and the subsequent Epoch of Reionization. However, the intrinsic faintness of the signal,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yuchen Liu , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Peter Sims

Observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal emitted by neutral hydrogen represent a promising probe of large-scale structure in the universe. However, cosmological 21-cm signal is challenging to observe due to astrophysical foregrounds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Haochen Wang , Juan Mena-Parra , Tianyue Chen , Kiyoshi Masui

The neutral hydrogen 21cm line is potentially a very powerful probe of the observable universe, and a number of on-going experiments are trying to detect it at cosmological distances. However, the presence of strong foreground radiations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-14 Qizhi Huang , Fengquan Wu , Xuelei Chen

The cosmological 21 cm signal is one of the most promising avenues to study the Epoch of Reionization. One class of experiments aiming to detect this signal is global signal experiments measuring the sky-averaged 21 cm brightness…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Stefan Heimersheim , Leiv Rønneberg , Henry Linton , Filippo Pagani , Anastasia Fialkov

The extraction of the sky-averaged 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization faces significant challenges. The bright and anisotropic Galactic foreground, which is 4 - 5 orders of magnitude brighter than the 21 cm signal,…

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Understanding the astrophysical nature of the first stars remains an unsolved problem in cosmology. The redshifted global 21-cm signal $({T}_{21})$ acts as a treasure trove to probe the cosmic dawn era -- when the intergalactic medium was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Vivekanand Mohapatra , Johnny J , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Jishnu Goswami , Alekha C. Nayak

[Abridged] The spatially averaged global spectrum of the redshifted 21cm line has generated much experimental interest, for it is potentially a direct probe of the Epoch of Reionization and the Dark Ages. Since the cosmological signal here…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-07 Adrian Liu , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Max Tegmark , Abraham Loeb

The upcoming era of large-scale, high-cadence astronomical surveys demands efficient and robust methods for time-series analysis. ARIMA models provide a versatile parametric description of stochastic variability in this context. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ajinkya Naik , Will Handley

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

Astronomy depends on ever increasing computing power. Processor clock-rates have plateaued, and increased performance is now appearing in the form of additional processor cores on a single chip. This poses significant challenges to the…

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The study of the cosmic Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) using the all-sky averaged redshifted HI 21cm signal, are some of the key science goals of most of the ongoing or upcoming experiments, for example, EDGES,…

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We describe a computational framework for hierarchical Bayesian inference with simple (typically single-plate) parametric graphical models that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate computations, enabling deployment on very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-18 János M. Szalai-Gindl , Thomas J. Loredo , Brandon C. Kelly , István Csabai , Tamás Budavári , László Dobos

The 21cm global signal is an important probe to reveal the properties of the first astrophysical objects and the processes of the structure formation from which one can constrain astrophysical and cosmological parameters. To extract the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Shintaro Yoshiura , Teppei Minoda , Tomo Takahashi

We introduce a novel technique within the Nested Sampling framework to enhance efficiency of the computation of Bayesian evidence, a critical component in scientific data analysis. In higher dimensions, Nested Sampling relies on Markov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Joshua G. Albert

Extracting parameters from the global 21cm signal is crucial for understanding the early Universe. However, detecting the 21cm signal is challenging due to the brighter foreground and associated observational difficulties. In this study, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Anshuman Tripathi , Abhirup Datta , Gursharanjit Kaur

The global 21 cm signal from the hyperfine transition of cosmic atomic hydrogen is theorised to track the state of the early Universe via the analysis of its absorption and emission with respect to the radio background. Detecting this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Joe H. N. Pattison , Dominic J. Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo

Accurate detection of the cosmological 21-cm global signal requires galactic foreground models which can remove power over ~$10^6$. Although foreground and global signal models unavoidably exhibit overlap in their vector-spaces inducing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Joshua J. Hibbard , David Rapetti , Jack O. Burns , Nivedita Mahesh , Neil Bassett

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…