HERA phase I limits on the cosmic 21 cm signal: constraints on astrophysics and cosmology during the epoch of reionization

Z Abdurashidova, JE Aguirre, P Alexander… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Recently, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) has produced the
experiment's first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21 cm fluctuations at z∼ 8 and 10 …

Studying cosmic dawn using redshifted HI 21-cm signal: A brief review

A Bera, R Ghara, A Chatterjee, KK Datta… - Journal of Astrophysics …, 2023 - Springer
In this review article, we briefly outline our current understanding of the physics associated
with the HI 21-cm signal from cosmic dawn. We discuss different phases of cosmic dawn as …

Astrophysical constraints from the SARAS 3 non-detection of the cosmic dawn sky-averaged 21-cm signal

HTJ Bevins, A Fialkov, E de Lera Acedo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Observations of the redshifted 21-cm line of atomic hydrogen have provided several upper
limits on the 21-cm power spectrum and a tentative detection of the sky-averaged signal at …

Probing early Universe through redshifted 21-cm signal: Modeling and observational challenges

AK Shaw, A Chakraborty, M Kamran, R Ghara… - Journal of Astrophysics …, 2023 - Springer
Cosmic dawn (CD) and the epoch of reionization (EoR) are the most important parts of
cosmic history during which the first luminous structures emerged. These first objects heated …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Measuring the topology of reionization with Betti numbers

SK Giri, G Mellema - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The distribution of ionized hydrogen during the epoch of reionization (EoR) has a complex
morphology. We propose to measure the 3D topology of ionized regions using the Betti …

Cosmological forecast of the 21-cm power spectrum with the halo model of reionization

A Schneider, T Schaeffer, SK Giri - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The 21-cm power spectrum of reionization is a promising probe for cosmology and
fundamental physics. Exploiting this new observable, however, requires fast predictors …

Marginal post-processing of Bayesian inference products with normalizing flows and kernel density estimators

HTJ Bevins, WJ Handley, P Lemos… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian analysis has become an indispensable tool across many different cosmological
fields, including the study of gravitational waves, the cosmic microwave background, and the …