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 …

The 21-cm bispectrum as a probe of non-Gaussianities due to X-ray heating

CA Watkinson, SK Giri, HE Ross… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present analysis of the normalized 21-cm bispectrum from fully-numerical simulations of
intergalactic-medium heating by stellar sources and high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) …

A fast estimator for the bispectrum and beyond–a practical method for measuring non-Gaussianity in 21-cm maps

CA Watkinson, S Majumdar… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we establish the accuracy and robustness of a fast estimator for the bispectrum–
the 'FFT-bispectrum estimator'. The implementation of the estimator presented here offers …

The large-scale observational signatures of low-mass galaxies during reionization

KL Dixon, IT Iliev, G Mellema, K Ahn… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Observations of the epoch of reionization give us clues about the nature and evolution of the
sources of ionizing photons, or early stars and galaxies. We present a new suite of structure …

The impact of spin-temperature fluctuations on the 21-cm moments

CA Watkinson, JR Pritchard - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
This paper considers the impact of Lyman α coupling and X-ray heating on the 21-cm
brightness-temperature one-point statistics (as predicted by seminumerical simulations). The …

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 …

Self-shielding of hydrogen in the IGM during the epoch of reionization

J Chardin, G Kulkarni… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We investigate self-shielding of intergalactic hydrogen against ionizing radiation in radiative
transfer simulations of cosmic reionization carefully calibrated with Lyα forest data. While self …

Effects of the sources of reionization on 21-cm redshift-space distortions

S Majumdar, H Jensen, G Mellema… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The observed 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization will be distorted along the line of
sight by the peculiar velocities of matter particles. These redshift-space distortions will affect …

Dark-ages reionization and galaxy formation simulation V: morphology and statistical signatures of reionization

PM Geil, SJ Mutch, GB Poole, PW Angel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We use the Dark-ages, Reionization And Galaxy formation Observables from Numerical
Simulations (DRAGONS) framework to investigate the effect of galaxy formation physics on …

Expected constraints on models of the epoch of reionization with the variance and skewness in redshifted 21 cm-line fluctuations

K Kubota, S Yoshiura, H Shimabukuro… - Publications of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The redshifted 21 cm-line signal from neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM)
gives a direct probe of the epoch of reionization (EoR). In this paper, we investigate the …