On the detection of a cosmic dawn signal in the radio background

S Singh, J Nambissan T, R Subrahmanyan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The astrophysics of the cosmic dawn, when star formation commenced in the first collapsed
objects, is predicted to be revealed by spectral and spatial signatures in the cosmic radio …

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 …

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 …

SARAS 3 CD/EoR radiometer: design and performance of the receiver

R Subrahmanyan, R Somashekar, NU Shankar… - Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
SARAS is an ongoing experiment aiming to detect the redshifted global 21-cm signal
expected from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Standard …

Constraining the properties of Population III galaxies with multiwavelength observations

S Pochinda, T Gessey-Jones… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The early Universe, spanning 400 000 to 400 million years after the big bang (z≈ 1100–11),
has been left largely unexplored as the light from luminous objects is too faint to be …

PRATUSH experiment concept and design overview

M Sathyanarayana Rao, S Singh, S KS, G BS… - Experimental …, 2023 - Springer
PRATUSH–Probing ReionizATion of the Universe using Signal from Hydrogen–is a
proposed cosmology experiment to detect the global red-shifted 21-cm signal from the …

SARAS CD/EoR radiometer: design and performance of the digital correlation spectrometer

BS Girish, KS Srivani, R Subrahmanyan… - Journal of …, 2020 - World Scientific
In the currently accepted model for cosmic baryon evolution, Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the
Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are significant times when first light from the first luminous …

Tackling the Challenges in the 21 cm Global Spectrum Experiment: The Impact of Ionosphere and Beam Distortion

Y Wang, X Wang, S Sun, F Wu, S Luo… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The H i 21 cm global signal from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR)
offers critical insights into the evolution of our Universe. Yet, its detection presents significant …

The effects of the antenna power pattern uncertainty within a global 21 cm experiment

J Cumner, C Pieterse, D De Villiers… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Measuring the redshifted sky-averaged neutral hydrogen 21 cm signal with a wide-band
antenna operating at metre wavelengths can probe the thermal history of the Universe and …

Suppresion of Log‐Periodic Dipole Antenna Spurious Radiation by Lumped Element Loading for Radioastronomical Application

G Kyriakou, P Bolli, L Mezzadrelli - Radio Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Log‐Periodic Dipole Antennas have been known to provide good performance over
large fractional bandwidths. However, optimized designs of log‐periodic antennas, in …