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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

Calibration precision is currently a limiting systematic in 21 cm cosmology experiments. While there are innumerable calibration approaches, most can be categorized as either `sky-based,' relying on an extremely accurate model of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ruby Byrne , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna Hazelton , Michael Wilensky

Observations of 21cm line from neutral hydrogen promise to be an exciting new probe of astrophysics and cosmology during the Cosmic Dawn and through the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) to when dark energy accelerates the expansion of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 Tyler A. Cox , Aaron R. Parsons , Joshua S. Dillon , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Robert Pascua

To recover the 21 cm hydrogen line, it is essential to separate the cosmological signal from the much stronger foreground contributions at radio frequencies. The BINGO radio telescope is designed to measure the 21 cm line and detect BAOs…

This paper presents experimental results that allow for the performance evaluation of a straight-line reference alignment system based on pseudo-nondiffracting Layer beams. Sensors, developed specifically for this system, feature four…

We present a novel system architecture for a distributed wireless, self-calibrating ultrasound microphone network for synchronized in-air acoustic sensing. Once deployed the embedded nodes determine their position in the environment using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Dennis Laurijssen , Rens Baeyens , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

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 order to meet the theoretically achievable imaging performance, calibration of modern radio interferometers is a mandatory challenge, especially at low frequencies. In this perspective, we propose a novel parallel iterative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-09 Martin Brossard , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Marius Pesavento , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal , Stefan J. Wijnholds

Pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are key enablers in many state-of-the-art signal processing systems with high sampling rates. In addition to high sampling rates, such systems often demand a high linearity. To meet these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Matthias Wagner , Oliver Lang , Esmaeil Kavousi Ghafi , Arianit Preniqi , Andreas Schwarz , Mario Huemer

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…

This paper describes a new all-digital technique for calibration of the mismatches in time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (TIADCs) to reduce the circuit area. The proposed technique gives the first order approximation of the gain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Jiadong Hu , Zhe Cao , Qi An , Lei Zhao , Shubin Liu

The development of sensitive large format imaging arrays for the infrared promises to provide revolutionary capabilities for space astronomy. For example, the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on SIRTF will use four 256 x 256 arrays to provide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. J. Fixsen , S. H. Moseley , R. G. Arendt

To achieve the sensitivity required to detect signals from neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation it is critical to have a well-calibrated instrument which has a stable calibration over the course of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Christian J. Kirkham , Dominic J. Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo

Low-channel wearable electroencephalography (EEG) is attractive for long-term monitoring, but four frontal electrodes provide only a sparse and spatially biased view of distributed scalp activity. We present FAVC-Net, a compact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Minghao Xiao

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…

Considerable observational efforts are being dedicated to measuring the sky-averaged (global) 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization. Deriving observational constraints on the astrophysics of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Christian H. Bye , Stephen K. N. Portillo , Anastasia Fialkov

All 21-cm signal experiments rely on electronic receivers that affect the data via both multiplicative and additive biases through the receiver's gain and noise temperature. While experiments attempt to remove these biases, the residuals of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Keith Tauscher , David Rapetti , Bang D. Nhan , Alec Handy , Neil Bassett , Joshua Hibbard , David Bordenave , Richard F. Bradley , Jack O. Burns

Drone-based beam measurements are a promising avenue to tackle the critical challenge of calibration for 21 cm cosmology telescopes. In this paper, we introduce a new drone-based calibration system for 400-800 MHz radio observatories,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Emily R. Kuhn , Will Tyndall , Benjamin R. B. Saliwanchik , Anna Rose Polish , Maile Harris , Laura B. Newburgh

The central challenge in 21~cm cosmology is isolating the cosmological signal from bright foregrounds. Many separation techniques rely on the accurate knowledge of the sky and the instrumental response, including the antenna primary beam.…