Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) Phase II Deployment and Commissioning

LM Berkhout, DC Jacobs… - Publications of the …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the design and deployment of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization
Array (HERA) phase II system. HERA is designed as a staged experiment targeting 21 cm …

Spectral redundancy for calibrating interferometers and suppressing the foreground wedge in 21 cm cosmology

TA Cox, AR Parsons, JS Dillon… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Observations of 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen promise to be an exciting new probe of
astrophysics and cosmology during the Cosmic Dawn and through the Epoch of …

Sensitivity of Bayesian 21 cm power spectrum estimation to foreground model errors

J Burba, P Bull, MJ Wilensky, F Kennedy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Power spectrum estimators are an important tool in efforts to detect the 21 cm brightness
temperature fluctuations from neutral hydrogen at early times. An initial detection will likely …

Mitigating calibration errors from mutual coupling with time-domain filtering of 21 cm cosmological radio observations

N Charles, NS Kern, R Pascua… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The 21 cm transition from neutral Hydrogen promises to be the best observational probe of
the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). This has led to the construction of low-frequency radio …

High-dimensional inference of radio interferometer beam patterns I: parametric model of the HERA beams

MJ Wilensky, J Burba, P Bull, H Garsden… - RAS Techniques …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Accurate modelling of the primary beam is an important but difficult task in radio astronomy.
For high dynamic range problems such as 21 cm intensity mapping, small modelling errors …

Direct Optimal Mapping Image Power Spectrum and its Window Functions

Z Xu, H Kim, JN Hewitt, KF Chen, NS Kern… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The key to detecting neutral hydrogen during the epoch of reionization (EoR) is to separate
the cosmological signal from the dominating foreground radiation. We developed direct …

Instrumental Effects in 21 cm Cosmology: One-point Statistics and Power Spectrum with the HERA Interferometer

H Kim - 2024 - dspace.mit.edu
The epoch of reionization (EoR) signifies a critical phase in the universe's evolution, marking
the shift from a predominantly neutral intergalactic medium to the ionized state observed …