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most citedImproved upper limits on the 21-cm signal power spectrum of neutral hydrogen at from LOFAR

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45 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Accurate parameter inference for the Light-cone Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal

Suman Pramanick, Anoop Krishna, Rajesh Mondal +1

The light-cone (LC) effect introduces line-of-sight (LoS) statistical inhomogeneity into the 21-cm signal. Consequently, the traditional power spectrum (PS) fails to capture the fu…

astro-ph.CO2026

Inferring Cosmology and Astrophysics from the High-redshift 21cm Signal with SKA-Low

Anshuman Acharya, Satadru Bag, Sabrina Berger +29

The Square Kilometre Array's low frequency telescope (SKA-Low) will enable inference of astrophysical and cosmological parameters from the redshifted 21 cm signal, probing the Cosm…

astro-ph.CO2026

Constraining the neutral hydrogen fraction during reionization: Cross-simulation inference using power spectrum and bispectrum

Anoop Krishna, Deepthi Moorkanat, Hiten +1

The redshifted 21-cm signal is a unique probe of the early universe, particularly the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). While the 21-cm power spectrum has been the primary statistic for…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The Evolving Power Spectrum for the light cone Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal

Suman Pramanick, Somnath Bharadwaj, Khandakar Md Asif Elahi +1

The rapid evolution of the cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution during the EoR is imprinted along the line of sight (LoS) in the redshifted 21-cm signal due to the light…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 15 cited

Constraining exotic dark matter models with the dark ages 21-cm signal

Rajesh Mondal, Rennan Barkana, Anastasia Fialkov

The dark ages 21-cm signal is a powerful tool for precision cosmology and probing new physics. We study two non-standard models: an excess radio background (ERB) model (possibly ge…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 41 cited

Prospects for precision cosmology with the 21 cm signal from the dark ages

Rajesh Mondal, Rennan Barkana

The 21 cm signal from the dark ages provides a potential new probe of fundamental cosmology. While exotic physics could be discovered, here we quantify the expected benefits within…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 16 cited

POLAR -- I: linking the 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization to galaxy formation

Qing-Bo Ma, Raghunath Ghara, Benedetta Ciardi +5

To self-consistently model galactic properties, reionization of the intergalactic medium, and the associated 21-cm signal, we have developed the algorithm polar by integrating the…

astro-ph.CO2023

Quantifying and mitigating the effect of snapshot interval in light-cone Epoch of Reionization 21-cm simulations

Suman Pramanick, Rajesh Mondal, Somnath Bharadwaj

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) neutral Hydrogen (HI) 21-cm signal evolves significantly along the line-of-sight (LoS) due to the light-cone (LC) effect. It is important to accurat…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 40 cited

Inflaton phenomenology via reheating in light of primordial gravitational waves and the latest BICEP/ data

Ayan Chakraborty, Md Riajul Haque, Debaprasad Maity +1

We are in the era of precision cosmology which offers us a unique opportunity to investigate beyond standard model physics. Toward this endeavor, inflaton is assumed to be a perfec…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 22 cited

SKA Science Data Challenge 2: analysis and results

P. Hartley, A. Bonaldi, R. Braun +105

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomer…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Interpreting the HI 21-cm cosmology maps through Largest Cluster Statistics -- I: Impact of the synthetic SKA1-Low observations

Saswata Dasgupta, Samit Kumar Pal, Satadru Bag +7

We analyse the evolution of the largest ionized region using the topological and morphological evolution of the redshifted 21-cm signal coming from the neutral hydrogen distributio…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Studying the Multi-frequency Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Dawn 21-cm Signal

Abinash Kumar Shaw, Raghunath Ghara, Saleem Zaroubi +5

The light-cone (LC) anisotropy arises due to cosmic evolution of the cosmic dawn 21-cm signal along the line-of-sight (LoS) axis of the observation volume. The LC effect makes the…

hep-ph2023★ 58 cited

WIMPs, FIMPs, and Inflaton phenomenology via reheating, CMB and

MD Riajul Haque, Debaprasad Maity, Rajesh Mondal

In this paper, we extensively analyzed the reheating dynamics after inflation and looked into its possible implication on dark matter (DM) and inflaton phenomenology. We studied th…

astro-ph.IM2022

Detecting galaxies in a large H{\sc i}~spectral cube

Abinash Kumar Shaw, Manoj Jagannath, Aishrila Mazumder +4

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is expected to produce humongous amount of data for undertaking H{\sc i}~science. We have developed an MPI-based {\sc Python} pipeline to…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 9 cited

Multi-frequency angular power spectrum of the 21~cm signal from the Epoch of Reionisation using the Murchison Widefield Array

Cathryn M. Trott, Rajesh Mondal, Garrelt Mellema +5

The Multi-frequency Angular Power Spectrum (MAPS) is an alternative to spherically-averaged power spectra, and computes local fluctuations in the angular power spectrum without nee…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 13 cited

Redshifted 21-cm bispectrum: Impact of the source models on the signal and the IGM physics from the Cosmic Dawn

Mohd Kamran, Raghunath Ghara, Suman Majumdar +5

The radiations from the first luminous sources drive the fluctuations in the 21-cm signal at Cosmic Dawn (CD) via two dominant astrophysical processes i.e. the Ly coupling and X…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 13 cited

The multi-frequency angular power spectrum in parameter studies of the cosmic 21-cm signal

Rajesh Mondal, Garrelt Mellema, Steven G. Murray +1

The light-cone effect breaks the periodicity and statistical homogeneity (ergodicity) along the line-of-sight direction of cosmological emission/absorption line surveys. The spheri…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 12 cited

Degree-Scale Galactic Radio Emission at 122 MHz around the North Celestial Pole with LOFAR-AARTFAAC

B. K. Gehlot, L. V. E. Koopmans, A. R. Offringa +11

Aims: Contamination from bright diffuse Galactic thermal and non-thermal radio emission poses crucial challenges in experiments aiming to measure the 21-cm signal of neutral hydrog…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 19 cited

The large-scale 21-cm power spectrum from reionization

Ivelin Georgiev, Garrelt Mellema, Sambit K. Giri +1

Radio interferometers, such as the Low-Frequency Array and the future Square Kilometre Array, are attempting to measure the spherically averaged 21-cm power spectrum from the Epoch…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 1 cited

Probing IGM Physics during Cosmic Dawn using the Redshifted 21-cm Bispectrum

Mohd Kamran, Suman Majumdar, Raghunath Ghara +5

With the advent of the first luminous sources at Cosmic Dawn (CD), the redshifted 21-cm signal, from the neutral hydrogen in the Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM), is predicted to underg…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 22 cited

The Epoch of Reionization 21-cm Bispectrum: The impact of light-cone effects and detectability

Rajesh Mondal, Garrelt Mellema, Abinash Kumar Shaw +2

We study the spherically averaged bispectrum of the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). This metric provides a quantitative measurement of the level of non-Gaussiani…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 35 cited

Redshifted 21-cm bispectrum II: Impact of the spin temperature fluctuations and redshift space distortions on the signal from the Cosmic Dawn

Mohd Kamran, Raghunath Ghara, Suman Majumdar +5

We present a study of the 21-cm signal bispectrum (which quantifies the non-Gaussianity in the signal) from the Cosmic Dawn (CD). For our analysis, we have simulated the 21-cm sign…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 40 cited

Redshifted 21-cm Bispectrum I: Impact of the Redshift Space Distortions on the Signal from the Epoch of Reionization

Suman Majumdar, Mohd Kamran, Jonathan R. Pritchard +4

The bispectrum can quantify the non-Gussianity present in the redshifted 21-cm signal produced by the neutral hydrogen (HI) during the epoch of reionization (EoR). Motivated by thi…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 82 cited

Interpreting LOFAR 21-cm signal upper limits at z~9.1 in the context of high-z galaxy and reionisation observations

Bradley Greig, Andrei Mesinger, Léon V. E. Koopmans +11

Using the latest upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum at from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), we explore regions of parameter space which are inconsistent with t…