The REACH radiometer for detecting the 21-cm hydrogen signal from redshift z ≈ 7.5–28

E de Lera Acedo, DIL de Villiers, N Razavi-Ghods… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Observations of the 21-cm line from primordial hydrogen promise to be one of the best tools
to study the early epochs of the Universe: the dark ages, the cosmic dawn and the …

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 …

The role of Pop III stars and early black holes in the 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn

EM Ventura, A Trinca, R Schneider… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Modeling the 21-cm global signal from the Cosmic Dawn is challenging due to the many
poorly constrained physical processes that come into play. We address this problem using …

Mapper of the IGM spin temperature: instrument overview

RA Monsalve, C Altamirano, V Bidula… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The observation of the global 21 cm signal produced by neutral hydrogen gas in the
intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and Epoch of Reionization …

Modelling a hot horizon in global 21-cm experimental foregrounds

JHN Pattison, DJ Anstey… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The 21-cm signal from cosmic hydrogen is one of the most propitious probes of the early
Universe. The detection of this signal would reveal key information about the first stars, dark …

A comprehensive Bayesian reanalysis of the SARAS2 data from the epoch of reionization

HTJ Bevins, E de Lera Acedo, A Fialkov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a Bayesian re-analysis of the sky-averaged 21-cm experimental data from
SARAS2 using nested sampling implemented with polychord, spectrally smooth foreground …

21cmVAE: A Very Accurate Emulator of the 21 cm Global Signal

CH Bye, SKN Portillo, A Fialkov - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Considerable observational efforts are being dedicated to measuring the sky-averaged
(global) 21 cm signal of neutral hydrogen from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization …

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: 21cm Radiation as a Probe of Physics Across Cosmic Ages

A Liu, L Newburgh, B Saliwanchik, A Slosar - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The 21cm line refers to a forbidden transition in neutral hydrogen associated with alignment
of spins of the proton and electron. It is a very low energy transition that is emitted whenever …

A Bayesian method to mitigate the effects of unmodelled time-varying systematics for 21-cm cosmology experiments

CJ Kirkham, DJ Anstey… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Radio observations of the neutral hydrogen signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of
Reionization have helped to provide constraints on the properties of the first stars and …

Receiver design for the REACH global 21-cm signal experiment

ILV Roque, N Razavi-Ghods, SH Carey, JA Ely… - Experimental …, 2025 - Springer
We detail the REACH radiometric system designed to enable measurements of the 21-cm
neutral hydrogen line. Included is the radiometer architecture and end-to-end system …