Prospects for precision cosmology with the 21 cm signal from the dark ages

R Mondal, R Barkana - Nature Astronomy, 2023 - nature.com
The 21 cm signal from the dark ages provides a potential new probe of fundamental
cosmology. While exotic physics could be discovered, here we quantify the expected …

Cosmic mysteries and the hydrogen 21-cm line: bridging the gap with lunar observations

A Fialkov, T Gessey-Jones… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The hydrogen 21-cm signal is predicted to be the richest probe of the young Universe,
including those eras known as the cosmic Dark Ages, the Cosmic Dawn (when the first star …

Axion star explosions: A new source for axion indirect detection

M Escudero, CK Pooni, M Fairbairn, D Blas, X Du… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
If dark matter is composed of axions, then axion stars form in the cores of dark matter halos.
These stars are unstable above a critical mass, decaying to radio photons that heat the …

An effective model for the cosmic-dawn 21-cm signal

JB Muñoz - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The 21-cm signal holds the key to understanding the first structure formation during cosmic
dawn. Theoretical progress over the last decade has focused on simulations of this signal …

Constraining the X-ray heating and reionization using 21-cm power spectra with Marginal Neural Ratio Estimation

A Saxena, A Cole, S Gazagnes… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are epochs of the
Universe which host invaluable information about the cosmology and astrophysics of X-ray …

HERA bound on x-ray luminosity when accounting for population III stars

H Lazare, D Sarkar, ED Kovetz - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Recent upper bounds from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array on the cosmological
21-cm power spectrum at redshifts z≈ 8, 10, have been used to constrain LX< 2 keV/SFR …

IGM damping wing constraints on the tail end of reionization from the enlarged XQR-30 sample

B Greig, A Mesinger, E Bañados… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The attenuation of Lyα photons by neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z≳
5 continues to be a powerful probe for studying the epoch of reionization. Given a framework …

First upper limits on the 21 cm signal power spectrum from cosmic dawn from one night of observations with NenuFAR

S Munshi, FG Mertens, LVE Koopmans… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
The redshifted 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen is a direct probe of the physics of the
early universe and has been an important science driver of many present and upcoming …

beorn: a fast and flexible framework to simulate the epoch of reionization and cosmic dawn

T Schaeffer, SK Giri, A Schneider - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we introduce beorn (Bubbles during the Epoch of Reionization Numerical
Simulator), a publicly available python code that generates three-dimensional maps of the …

Modeling the High-energy Ionizing Output from Simple Stellar and X-Ray Binary Populations

K Garofali, AR Basu-Zych, BD Johnson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a methodology for modeling the joint ionizing impact due to a" simple X-ray
population"(SXP) and its corresponding simple stellar population (SSP), where" simple" …