Reconstructing large-scale structure with neutral hydrogen surveys

Abstract

Upcoming 21-cm intensity surveys will use the hyperfine transition in emission to map out neutral hydrogen in large volumes of the universe. Unfortunately, large spatial scales are completely contaminated with spectrally smooth astrophysical foregrounds which are orders of magnitude brighter than the signal. This contamination also leaks into smaller radial and angular modes to form a foreground wedge, further limiting the usefulness of 21-cm observations for different science cases, especially cross-correlations with tracers that have wide kernels in the radial direction. In this paper, we investigate reconstructing these modes within a forward modeling framework. Starting with an initial density field, a suitable bias parameterization and non-linear dynamics to model the observed 21-cm field, our reconstruction proceeds by combining the likelihood of a forward simulation to match the observations (under given modeling error and a data noise model) with the Gaussian prior on initial conditions and maximizing the obtained posterior. For redshifts $z=2$ and $4$, we are able to reconstruct 21cm field with cross correlation, $r_c>0.8$ on all scales for both our optimistic and pessimistic assumptions about foreground contamination and for different levels of thermal noise. The performance deteriorates slightly at $z=6$. The large-scale line-of-sight modes are reconstructed almost perfectly. We demonstrate how our method also reconstructs baryon acoustic oscillations, outperforming standard methods on all scales. We also describe how our reconstructed field can provide superb clustering redshift estimation at high redshifts, where it is otherwise extremely difficult to obtain dense spectroscopic samples, as well as open up cross-correlation opportunities with projected fields (e.g. lensing) which are restricted to modes transverse to the line of sight.

30 pages, 12 figures. Updated text to make discussion more robust

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