Neutrino mass ordering from oscillations and beyond: 2018 status and future prospects

PF De Salas, S Gariazzo, O Mena… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The ordering of the neutrino masses is a crucial input for a deep understanding of flavor
physics, and its determination may provide the key to establish the relationship among the …

Data analysis for precision 21 cm cosmology

A Liu, JR Shaw - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The redshifted 21 cm line is an emerging tool in cosmology, in principle permitting three-
dimensional surveys of our universe that reach unprecedentedly large volumes, previously …

Possible interaction between baryons and dark-matter particles revealed by the first stars

R Barkana - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The cosmic radio-frequency spectrum is expected to show a strong absorption signal
corresponding to the 21-centimetre-wavelength transition of atomic hydrogen around …

[HTML][HTML] Planck intermediate results-XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history

R Adam, N Aghanim, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
We investigate constraints on cosmic reionization extracted from the Planck cosmic
microwave background (CMB) data. We combine the Planck CMB anisotropy data in …

Fundamental physics with the square kilometre array

A Weltman, P Bull, S Camera, K Kelley… - Publications of the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned large radio interferometer designed to
operate over a wide range of frequencies, and with an order of magnitude greater sensitivity …

The evolution of the intergalactic medium

M McQuinn - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The bulk of cosmic matter resides in a dilute reservoir that fills the space between galaxies,
the intergalactic medium (IGM). The history of this reservoir is intimately tied to the cosmic …

21 cm cosmology in the 21st century

JR Pritchard, A Loeb - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Imaging the Universe during the first hundreds of millions of years remains one of the
exciting challenges facing modern cosmology. Observations of the redshifted 21 cm line of …

Planck intermediate results-XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

R Adam, PAR Ade, N Aghanim, M Arnaud… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
The polarized thermal emission from diffuse Galactic dust is the main foreground present in
measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at …

Enhanced global signal of neutral hydrogen due to excess radiation at cosmic dawn

C Feng, G Holder - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We revisit the global 21 cm signal calculation incorporating a possible radio background at
early times, and find that the global 21 cm signal shows a much stronger absorption feature …

“嫦娥4 号” 月球背面软着陆任务设计

吴伟仁, 王琼, 唐玉华, 于国斌, 刘继忠, 张玮… - 深空探测学报(中 …, 2017 - jdse.bit.edu.cn
介绍了“嫦娥4 号” 月球背面软着陆任务设计方案. 着陆区初步选定为月球背面南极-艾特肯(South
Pole-Aitken, SPA) 盆地内的冯· 卡门(Von Kármán) 撞击坑内. 采用中继星实现着陆器和巡视器 …