The first stars: formation, properties, and impact

RS Klessen, SCO Glover - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The first generation of stars, often called Population III (or Pop III), form from metal-free
primordial gas at redshifts z∼ 30 and below. They dominate the cosmic star-formation …

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 …

GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey–I. A low-frequency extragalactic catalogue

N Hurley-Walker, JR Callingham… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the low-frequency Square Kilometre
Array precursor located in Western Australia, we have completed the GaLactic and …

Cosmic reionization and early star-forming galaxies: A joint analysis of new constraints from Planck and the Hubble Space Telescope

BE Robertson, RS Ellis, SR Furlanetto… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss new constraints on the epoch of cosmic reionization and test the assumption that
most of the ionizing photons responsible arose from high-redshift star-forming galaxies …

Hydrogen epoch of reionization array (HERA)

DR DeBoer, AR Parsons, JE Aguirre… - Publications of the …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) is a staged experiment to
measure 21 cm emission from the primordial intergalactic medium (IGM) throughout cosmic …

wsclean: an implementation of a fast, generic wide-field imager for radio astronomy

AR Offringa, B McKinley… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Astronomical wide-field imaging of interferometric radio data is computationally expensive,
especially for the large data volumes created by modern non-coplanar many-element …

Deep multiredshift limits on Epoch of Reionization 21 cm power spectra from four seasons of Murchison Widefield Array observations

CM Trott, CH Jordan, S Midgley, N Barry… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We compute the spherically averaged power spectrum from four seasons of data obtained
for the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) project observed with the Murchison Widefield Array …

The phase II Murchison widefield array: design overview

RB Wayth, SJ Tingay, CM Trott, D Emrich… - Publications of the …, 2018 - cambridge.org
We describe the motivation and design details of the 'Phase II'upgrade of the Murchison
Widefield Array radio telescope. The expansion doubles to 256 the number of antenna tiles …

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 …

Upper limits on the 21 cm epoch of reionization power spectrum from one night with LOFAR

AH Patil, S Yatawatta, LVE Koopmans… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21 cm H i power spectra, in the
redshift range z= 7.9–10.6, using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) High-Band Antenna …