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astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmology with HI Intensity Mapping

Laura Wolz, Gabriele Autieri, José Luis Bernal +18

The redshifted spectral emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) at rest wavelength 21 cm can be used as a tracer of large-scale structure and its evolution. Within the HI intensity map…

astro-ph.CO2026

meer21cm: an Analysis Pipeline and Comprehensive Toolkit for HI Intensity Mapping

Zhaoting Chen, Steven Cunnington, Daniel Tassie +23

We present meer21cm, a comprehensive python package for cosmological data analysis of single-dish HI intensity mapping surveys. This package is simple to use, with a modularised co…

astro-ph.CO2026

Overview of 21cm Experiments at high redshift with SKAO

CD Science Working Group, Gianni Bernardi, Daniela Breitman +81

We provide an overview of the eight SKAO Science Book chapters that motivate the Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn experiments with SKA-Low. We describe the individual SKA-Low…

astro-ph.CO2026

Methodological Frontiers in 21-cm Intensity Mapping: the Treatment of Systematics and Foreground Contamination

Marta Spinelli, Matilde Barberi-Squarotti, José Luis Bernal +29

The distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization universe traces the cosmic large-scale structure and therefore serves as a powerful cosmological probe. An effici…

astro-ph.CO2026

HI Simulations for Cosmology with the SKA Observatory

Tommaso Ronconi, Gabriella De Lucia, Marta Spinelli +15

We present a comparative overview of state-of-the-art methods for modelling the distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization Universe, developed in preparation fo…

astro-ph.CO2026

Single-dish HI Intensity Mapping with the SKAO: Precursor Progress with MeerKAT's Large Area Synoptic Survey (MeerKLASS)

Steven Cunnington, Jingying Wang, Mario G. Santos +16

Using the SKAO to map the intensity of neutral hydrogen's 21cm emission line will be a golden opportunity to constrain models of cosmology. To access the largest cosmological scale…

astro-ph.CO2025

Revealing cosmological fluctuations in 21cm intensity maps with MeerKLASS: from maps to power spectra

Steven Cunnington, Matilde Barberi-Squarotti, José Luis Bernal +8

Mapping the integrated 21cm emission line from dark matter-tracing neutral hydrogen gas is the primary science goal for MeerKLASS (MeerKAT's Large Area Synoptic Survey). Prior to t…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Needlets and foreground removal for SKAO hydrogen intensity maps

Bianca De Caro, Isabella P. Carucci, Stefano Camera +2

Intensity Mapping (IM) of the 21-cm line of the neutral hydrogen (\textsc{Hi}) has become a compelling new technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. One of the ma…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 9 cited

Emission-line Stacking of 21cm Intensity Maps with MeerKLASS: Inference Pipeline and Application to the L-band Deep-field Data

Zhaoting Chen, Steven Cunnington, Alkistis Pourtsidou +11

We present a novel analysis of observational systematics through the emission-line stacking of the MeerKLASS L-band deep-field intensity maps, following the detection in arXiv:2407…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 12 cited

Hydrogen intensity mapping with MeerKAT: Preserving cosmological signal by optimising contaminant separation

Isabella P. Carucci, José L. Bernal, Steven Cunnington +9

Removing contaminants is a delicate, yet crucial step in neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping and often considered the technique's greatest challenge. Here, we address this chal…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

MeerKLASS L-band deep-field intensity maps: entering the HI dominated regime

MeerKLASS Collaboration, Matilde Barberi-Squarotti, José L. Bernal +18

We present results from MeerKAT single-dish HI intensity maps, the final observations to be performed in L-band in the MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey (MeerKLASS) campaign. The…

astro-ph.IM2024

Radio Frequency Interference from Radio Navigation Satellite Systems: simulations and comparison to MeerKAT single-dish data

Brandon Engelbrecht, Mario G. Santos, José Fonseca +11

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is emitted from various sources, terrestrial or orbital, and create a nuisance for ground-based 21cm experiments. In particular, single-dish 21cm…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Retrieving the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization with learnt Gaussian process kernels

Florent G. Mertens, Jérôme Bobin, Isabella P. Carucci

Direct detection of the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization via the redshifted 21-cm line of neutral Hydrogen will have unprecedented implications for studying structure formatio…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 34 cited

The foreground transfer function for HI intensity mapping signal reconstruction: MeerKLASS and precision cosmology applications

Steven Cunnington, Laura Wolz, Philip Bull +8

Blind cleaning methods are currently the preferred strategy for handling foreground contamination in single-dish HI intensity mapping surveys. Despite the increasing sophistication…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 31 cited

The Second Radio Synchrotron Background Workshop: Conference Summary and Report

J. Singal, N. Fornengo, M. Regis +24

We summarize the second radio synchrotron background workshop, which took place June 15-17, 2022 in Barolo, Italy. This meeting was convened because available measurements of the d…

astro-ph.CO2022

Constraining gravity with synergies between radio and optical cosmological surveys

Santiago Casas, Isabella P. Carucci, Valeria Pettorino +2

In this work we present updated forecasts on parameterised modifications of gravity that can capture deviations of the behaviour of cosmological density perturbations beyond CDM…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 106 cited

HI intensity mapping with MeerKAT: power spectrum detection in cross-correlation with WiggleZ galaxies

Steven Cunnington, Yichao Li, Mario G. Santos +13

We present a detection of correlated clustering between MeerKAT radio intensity maps and galaxies from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We find a detection of the cross-corre…

astro-ph.CO2021

Clustering redshifts with the 21cm-galaxy cross-bispectrum

Caroline Guandalin, Isabella P. Carucci, David Alonso +1

The cross-correlation between 21-cm intensity mapping experiments and photometric surveys of galaxies (or any other cosmological tracer with a broad radial kernel) is severely degr…

astro-ph.GA2021

Measurements of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron spectral index and curvature from MeerKLASS pilot data

Melis O. Irfan, Philip Bull, Mario G. Santos +6

21cm intensity mapping experiments are bringing an influx of high spectral resolution observational data in the MHz GHz regime. We use pilot MHz data fro…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 72 cited

SKAO HI Intensity Mapping: Blind Foreground Subtraction Challenge

Marta Spinelli, Isabella P. Carucci, Steven Cunnington +5

Neutral Hydrogen Intensity Mapping (HI IM) surveys will be a powerful new probe of cosmology. However, strong astrophysical foregrounds contaminate the signal and their coupling wi…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 71 cited

21cm foregrounds and polarization leakage: a user's guide on cleaning and mitigation strategies

Steven Cunnington, Melis O. Irfan, Isabella P. Carucci +2

The success of HI intensity mapping is largely dependent on how well 21cm foreground contamination can be controlled. In order to progress our understanding further, we present a r…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 64 cited

Recovery of 21 cm intensity maps with sparse component separation

Isabella P. Carucci, Melis O. Irfan, Jérôme Bobin

21 cm intensity mapping has emerged as a promising technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, the presence of foregrounds with amplitudes orders of magnit…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 6 cited

Astro2020 Science White Paper: Insights Into the Epoch of Reionization with the Highly-Redshifted 21-cm Line

Steven Furlanetto, Chris L. Carilli, Jordan Mirocha +47

The epoch of reionization, when photons from early galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium about a billion years after the Big Bang, is the last major phase transition in the Uni…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 5 cited

Astro2020 Science White Paper: Synergies Between Galaxy Surveys and Reionization Measurements

Steven Furlanetto, Adam Beardsley, Chris L. Carilli +47

The early phases of galaxy formation constitute one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics. It is during this era that the first luminous sources reionize the intergalactic…