Antenna beam characterization for the global 21-cm experiment LEDA and its impact on signal model parameter reconstruction

M Spinelli, G Kyriakou, G Bernardi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cosmic dawn, the onset of star formation in the early universe, can in principle be studied
via the 21-cm transition of neutral hydrogen, for which a sky-averaged absorption signal …

Lunar orbit measurement of the cosmic dawn's 21 cm global spectrum

Y Shi, F Deng, Y Xu, F Wu, Q Yan… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A redshifted 21 cm line absorption signature is commonly expected from the cosmic dawn
era, when the first stars and galaxies formed. The detailed traits of this signal can provide …

A Bayesian calibration framework for EDGES

SG Murray, JD Bowman, PH Sims… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We develop a Bayesian model that jointly constrains receiver calibration, foregrounds, and
cosmic 21 cm signal for the EDGES global 21 cm experiment. This model simultaneously …

A Bayesian approach to modelling spectrometer data chromaticity corrected using beam factors–I. Mathematical formalism

PH Sims, JD Bowman, N Mahesh… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Accurately accounting for spectral structure in spectrometer data induced by instrumental
chromaticity on scales relevant for detection of the 21-cm signal is among the most …

Lost horizon: Quantifying the effect of local topography on global 21 cm cosmology data analysis

N Bassett, D Rapetti, K Tauscher… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an investigation of the horizon and its effect on global 21 cm observations and
analysis. We find that the horizon cannot be ignored when modeling low-frequency …

Validating Posteriors Obtained by an Emulator When Jointly Fitting Mock Data of the Global 21 cm Signal and High-z Galaxy UV Luminosity Function

JD Jones, D Rapetti, J Mirocha, JJ Hibbard… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Although neural-network-based emulators enable efficient parameter estimation in 21 cm
cosmology, the accuracy of such constraints is poorly understood. We employ nested …

Joint constraints on reionization: A framework for combining the global 21 cm signal and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

JM Bégin, A Liu, A Gorce - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Recent measurements from the CMB and from high-redshift galaxy observations have
placed rough constraints on the midpoint and duration of the epoch of reionization. Detailed …

Sky-averaged 21-cm signal extraction using multiple antennas with an SVD framework: the REACH case

A Saxena, PD Meerburg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In a sky-averaged 21-cm signal experiment, the uncertainty of the extracted signal depends
mainly on the covariance between the foreground and 21-cm signal models. In this paper …

A general Bayesian framework to account for foreground map errors in global 21-cm experiments

M Pagano, P Sims, A Liu, D Anstey… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Measurement of the global 21-cm signal during Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of
Reionization is made difficult by bright foreground emission which is 2–5 orders of …

Simulation-based inference of the sky-averaged 21-cm signal from CD-EoR with REACH

A Saxena, PD Meerburg, C Weniger… - RAS Techniques …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The redshifted 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization carries
invaluable information about the cosmology and astrophysics of the early Universe …