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Peering Beyond the Veil of Last Scattering: A View of the Universe with CMB Spectral Distortions
Bryce Cyr, Nabila Aghanim, Ethan Baker +37
The frequency spectrum of the cosmic microwave background is the most precise blackbody ever measured in nature, with deviations constrained at the level of almost one part per mil…
A novel technique for reflection coefficient measurement in precision cosmology
Adarsh Kumar Dash, Yash Agrawal, Somashekar R. +7
The detection of the global 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation remains a challenge to experiments worldwide. Emitted at a rest-frame frequency of 1420.405~…
The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479
We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…
Detecting cosmological recombination lines with a non-ideal antenna -- a first step to practical realization
Dhashin Krishna, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao
Photons emitted during the formation of primordial hydrogen and helium atoms over the Epoch of Recombination are expected to be preserved as additive distortions to the Cosmic Micr…
STARFIRE: An algorithm for estimating radio frequency interference in orbits around Earth
Sonia Ghosh, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Saurabh Singh
Ground-based 21-cm experiments targeting the global signal from the periods of Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are susceptible to adverse effects presented by i) t…
Synthetic Observations with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) -- development towards an end-to-end pipeline
Aishrila Mazumder, Abhirup Datta, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao +4
Detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization is one of the final frontiers of modern observational cosmology. The…
Snowmass 2021 CMB-S4 White Paper
Kevork Abazajian, Arwa Abdulghafour, Graeme E. Addison +353
This Snowmass 2021 White Paper describes the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 project CMB-S4, which is designed to cross critical thresholds in our understanding of the origin a…
On the detection of a cosmic dawn signal in the radio background
Saurabh Singh, Jishnu Nambissan T., Ravi Subrahmanyan +6
The astrophysics of cosmic dawn, when star formation commenced in the first collapsed objects, is predicted to be revealed as spectral and spatial signatures in the cosmic radio ba…
A Floating Octave Bandwidth Cone-Disc Antenna for Detection of Cosmic Dawn
Agaram Raghunathan, Ravi Subrahmanyan, N. Udaya Shankar +9
The critical component of radio astronomy radiometers built to detect redshifted 21-cm signals from Cosmic Dawn is the antenna element. We describe the design and performance of an…
SARAS 3 CD/EoR Radiometer: Design and Performance of the Receiver
Jishnu Nambissan T., Ravi Subrahmanyan, R. Somashekar +6
SARAS is an ongoing experiment aiming to detect the redshifted global 21-cm signal expected from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Standard cosmological models…
Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope overview
Kenji Kiuchi, Shunsuke Adachi, Aamir M. Ali +51
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment from the Atacama Desert in Chile comprising three small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large-apert…
CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves
S4 Collaboration, Kevork Abazajian, Graeme E. Addison +233
CMB-S4---the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment---is set to significantly advance the sensitivity of CMB measurements and enhance our underst…
Small Aperture Telescopes for the Simons Observatory
Aamir M. Ali, Shunsuke Adachi, Kam Arnold +49
The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located on Cerro Toco, Chile, that will map the microwave sky in temperature and polarizatio…
The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…
The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…
BoloCalc: a sensitivity calculator for the design of Simons Observatory
Charles A. Hill, Sarah Marie M. Bruno, Sara M. Simon +34
The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming experiment that will study temperature and polarization fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Atacama Desert in…
SARAS 2 constraints on global 21-cm signals from the Epoch of Reionization
Saurabh Singh, Ravi Subrahmanyan, N. Udaya Shankar +8
Spectral distortions in the cosmic microwave background over the 40--200~MHz band are imprinted by neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium prior to the end of reionization. Th…
SARAS 2: A Spectral Radiometer for probing Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization through detection of the global 21 cm signal
Saurabh Singh, Ravi Subrahmanyan, N. Udaya Shankar +5
The global 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts , probes the nature of first sources of radiation as well as physics of…
What Are "X-Shaped" Radio Sources Telling Us? I. Very Large Array Imaging of a Large Sample of Low Axial Ratio Radio Sources
David H. Roberts, Lakshmi Saripalli, Kevin X. Wang +5
We present historical VLA and Jansky Very Large Array multi-frequency multi-array radio continuum imaging of a unique sample of 100 radio sources that have been selected on the bas…
First results on the Epoch of Reionization from First Light with SARAS 2
Saurabh Singh, Ravi Subrahmanyan, N. Udaya Shankar +8
Long wavelength spectral distortions in the Cosmic Microwave Background arising from the 21-cm transition in neutral Hydrogen are a key probe of Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reioni…
GMOSS: All-sky model of spectral radio brightness based on physical components and associated radiative processes
Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Ravi Subrahmanyan, N Udaya Shankar +1
We present Global MOdel for the radio Sky Spectrum (GMOSS) -- a novel, physically motivated model of the low-frequency radio sky from 22 MHz to 23 GHz. GMOSS invokes different phys…