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 …

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 …

A needle in a haystack? Catching Population III stars in the epoch of reionization: I. Population III star-forming environments

A Venditti, L Graziani, R Schneider… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Despite extensive search efforts, direct observations of the first [Population III (Pop III)] stars
have not yet succeeded. Theoretical studies have suggested that late Pop III star formation is …

Constraining the state of the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization using MWA 21-cm signal observations

R Ghara, SK Giri, B Ciardi, G Mellema… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) team has derived new upper limits on the
spherically averaged power spectrum of the 21-cm signal at six redshifts in the range z≈ 6.5 …

Starbursts in low-mass haloes at Cosmic Dawn. I. The critical halo mass for star formation

O Nebrin, SK Giri, G Mellema - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The first stars, galaxies, star clusters, and direct-collapse black holes are expected to have
formed in low-mass (∼ 105–109 M⊙) haloes at Cosmic Dawn (z∼ 10–30) under conditions …

HERA bound on x-ray luminosity when accounting for population III stars

H Lazare, D Sarkar, ED Kovetz - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Recent upper bounds from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array on the cosmological
21-cm power spectrum at redshifts z≈ 8, 10, have been used to constrain LX< 2 keV/SFR …

Snowmass2021 cosmic frontier white paper: dark matter physics from halo measurements

K Bechtol, S Birrer, FY Cyr-Racine, K Schutz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The non-linear process of cosmic structure formation produces gravitationally bound
overdensities of dark matter known as halos. The abundances, density profiles, ellipticities …

Bursty star formation during the Cosmic Dawn driven by delayed stellar feedback

SR Furlanetto, J Mirocha - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, several analytic models have demonstrated that simple assumptions about
halo growth and feedback-regulated star formation can match the (limited) existing …

First upper limits on the 21 cm signal power spectrum from cosmic dawn from one night of observations with NenuFAR

S Munshi, FG Mertens, LVE Koopmans… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
The redshifted 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen is a direct probe of the physics of the
early universe and has been an important science driver of many present and upcoming …

Signatures of cosmic ray heating in 21-cm observables

T Gessey-Jones, A Fialkov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cosmic rays generated by supernovae carry away a significant portion of the lifetime energy
emission of their parent star, making them a plausible mechanism for heating the early …