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 …

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 …

LOFAR: The low-frequency array

MP van Haarlem, MW Wise, AW Gunst, G Heald… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
LOFAR, the LOw-Frequency ARray, is a new-generation radio interferometer constructed in
the north of the Netherlands and across europe. Utilizing a novel phased-array design …

Reionization and the cosmic dawn with the square kilometre array

G Mellema, LVE Koopmans, FA Abdalla… - Experimental …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have a low frequency component (SKA-low)
which has as one of its main science goals the study of the redshifted 21 cm line from the …

Bright source subtraction requirements for redshifted 21 cm measurements

A Datta, JD Bowman, CL Carilli - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The H i 21 cm transition line is expected to be an important probe into the cosmic dark ages
and epoch of reionization. Foreground source removal is one of the principal challenges for …

The cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization with the square kilometre array

LVE Koopmans, J Pritchard, G Mellema… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
Concerted effort is currently ongoing to open up the Epoch of Reionization (EoR)($ z\sim
$15-6) for studies with IR and radio telescopes. Whereas IR detections have been made of …

The epoch of reionization

S Zaroubi - The first galaxies: theoretical predictions and …, 2012 - Springer
The Universe's dark ages end with the formation of the first generation of galaxies. These
objects start emitting ultraviolet radiation that carves out ionized regions around them. After a …

Simulating cosmic reionization: how large a volume is large enough?

IT Iliev, G Mellema, K Ahn, PR Shapiro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present the largest-volume (425 Mpc h− 1= 607 Mpc on a side) full radiative transfer
simulation of cosmic reionization to date. We show that there is significant additional power …

Reionization and Cosmology with 21-cm Fluctuations

MF Morales, JSB Wyithe - Annual review of astronomy and …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Measurement of the spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen via the redshifted 21-cm line
promises to revolutionize our knowledge of the epoch of reionization and the first galaxies …

Foreground removal using fastica : a showcase of LOFAR-EoR

E Chapman, FB Abdalla, G Harker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a new implementation of the fastica algorithm on simulated Low Frequency
Array Epoch of Reionization data with the aim of accurately removing the foregrounds and …