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 …

Improved constraints on the 21 cm EoR power spectrum and the X-ray heating of the IGM with HERA phase I observations

T Adams, JE Aguirre, P Alexander, ZS Ali… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the most sensitive upper limits to date on the 21 cm epoch of reionization power
spectrum using 94 nights of observing with Phase I of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization …

Improved upper limits on the 21 cm signal power spectrum of neutral hydrogen at z ≈ 9.1 from LOFAR

FG Mertens, M Mevius, LVE Koopmans… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A new upper limit on the 21 cm signal power spectrum at a redshift of z≈ 9.1 is
presented, based on 141 h of data obtained with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). The …

Balancing the efficiency and stochasticity of star formation with dust extinction in z ≳ 10 galaxies observed by JWST

J Mirocha, SR Furlanetto - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Early observations with JWST indicate an overabundance of bright galaxies at redshifts z≳
10 relative to Hubble-calibrated model predictions. More puzzling still is the apparent lack of …

Accelerating early massive galaxy formation with primordial black holes

B Liu, V Bromm - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations with JWST have identified several bright galaxy candidates at z≳ 10,
some of which appear unusually massive (up to∼ 10 11 M⊙). Such early formation of …

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 …

Cosmic reionisation

JH Wise - Contemporary Physics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The universe goes through several phase transitions during its formative stages. Cosmic
reionisation is the last of them, where ultraviolet and X-ray radiation escape from the first …

Inferring the astrophysics of reionization and cosmic dawn from galaxy luminosity functions and the 21-cm signal

J Park, A Mesinger, B Greig… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The properties of the first galaxies, expected to drive the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of
Reionization, are encoded in the 3D structure of the cosmic 21-cm signal. Parameter …

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 …

Constraining primordial black holes as dark matter using the global 21-cm signal with X-ray heating and excess radio background

S Mittal, A Ray, G Kulkarni… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Using the global 21-cm signal measurement by the EDGES collaboration, we derive
constraints on the fraction of the dark matter that is in the form of primordial black holes …