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The segmentation ceiling: why explicit left-ventricular masks do not improve learned ejection-fraction regression
Farshid Farhadi Khouzani, Paul La Plante, Bryar Mustafa Shareef +1
Accurate estimation of left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) from echocardiography is central to cardiovascular care, and deep learning enables automated EF prediction from echoc…
Machine Learning-Driven Analysis of kSZ Maps to Predict CMB Optical Depth
Farshid Farhadi Khouzani, Abinash Kumar Shaw, Paul La Plante +2
Upcoming measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, which results from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons scattering off moving electrons, offer a powerful…
Prospects for - Cross-Correlations during Reionization
Meng Zhou, Paul La Plante, Adam Lidz +2
The 21\,cm line and the patchy kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect are promising and complementary probes of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). A challenge for cross-correlating…
The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419
We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…
Probing helium reionization with kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich tomography
Selim C. Hotinli, Simone Ferraro, Gilbert P. Holder +3
Reionization of helium is expected to occur at redshifts and have important consequences for quasar populations, galaxy formation, and the morphology of the intergalactic…
Signatures of reionization feedback in the near-infrared background
Jordan Mirocha, Adrian Liu, Paul La Plante
The reionization of the intergalactic medium at redshifts is expected to have a lasting impact on galaxies residing in low-mass dark matter halos. Unable to accrete or…
Prospects for 21cm-Galaxy Cross-Correlations with HERA and the Roman High-Latitude Survey
Paul La Plante, Jordan Mirocha, Adélie Gorce +2
The cross-correlation between the 21 cm field and the galaxy distribution is a potential probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The 21 cm signal traces neutral gas in the interg…
Understanding the Impact of Semi-numeric Reionization Models when using CNNs
Yihao Zhou, Paul La Plante
Interpreting 21cm measurements from current and upcoming experiments like HERA and the SKA will provide new scientific insights and exciting implications for astrophysics and cosmo…
Automated Detection of Antenna Malfunctions in Large-N Interferometers: A Case Study with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
Dara Storer, Joshua S. Dillon, Daniel C. Jacobs +75
We present a framework for identifying and flagging malfunctioning antennas in large radio interferometers. We outline two distinct categories of metrics designed to detect outlier…
Extracting the Optical Depth to Reionization from 21 cm Data Using Machine Learning Techniques
Tashalee S. Billings, Paul La Plante, James E. Aguirre
Upcoming measurements of the high-redshift 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are a promising probe of the astrophysics of the first galaxies and of cosmological par…
The importance of galaxy formation histories in models of reionization
Jordan Mirocha, Paul La Plante, Adrian Liu
Upcoming galaxy surveys and 21-cm experiments targeting high redshifts are highly complementary probes of galaxy formation and reionization. However, in order to exped…
Detection of Cosmic Structures using the Bispectrum Phase. II. First Results from Application to Cosmic Reionization Using the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Chris L. Carilli, Bojan Nikolic +69
Characterizing the epoch of reionization (EoR) at via the redshifted 21 cm line of neutral Hydrogen (HI) is critical to modern astrophysics and cosmology, and thus a k…
The 21 cm-kSZ-kSZ Bispectrum during the Epoch of Reionization
Paul La Plante, Adam Lidz, James Aguirre +1
The high-redshift 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a promising observational probe of the early universe. Current- and next-generation radio interferometers suc…
DAYENU: A Simple Filter of Smooth Foregrounds for Intensity Mapping Power Spectra
Aaron Ewall-Wice, Nicholas Kern, Joshua S. Dillon +14
We introduce DAYENU, a linear, spectral filter for HI intensity mapping that achieves the desirable foreground mitigation and error minimization properties of inverse co-variance w…
Astro2020 APC White Paper: The Early Career Perspective on the Coming Decade, Astrophysics Career Paths, and the Decadal Survey Process
Emily Moravec, Ian Czekala, Kate Follette +53
In response to the need for the Astro2020 Decadal Survey to explicitly engage early career astronomers, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the Ear…
Mapping Cosmic Dawn and Reionization: Challenges and Synergies
Marcelo A. Alvarez, Anastasia Fialkov, Paul La Plante +47
Cosmic dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are among the least explored observational eras in cosmology: a time at which the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed…
Machine Learning Applied to the Reionization History of the Universe in the 21 cm Signal
Paul La Plante, Michelle Ntampaka
The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) features a rich interplay between the first luminous sources and the low-density gas of the intergalactic medium (IGM), where photons from these sou…
Reionization Models Classifier using 21cm Map Deep Learning
Sultan Hassan, Adrian Liu, Saul Kohn +3
Next-generation 21cm observations will enable imaging of reionization on very large scales. These images will contain more astrophysical and cosmological information than the power…
Helium Reionization Simulations. III. The Helium Lyman- Forest
Paul La Plante, Hy Trac, Rupert Croft +1
In La Plante et al. (2017), we presented a new suite of hydrodynamic simulations with the aim of accurately capturing the process of helium II reionization. In this paper, we discu…
Helium Reionization Simulations. II. Signatures of Quasar Activity on the IGM
Paul La Plante, Hy Trac, Rupert Croft +1
We have run a new suite of simulations that solve hydrodynamics and radiative transfer simultaneously to study helium II reionization. Our suite of simulations employs various mode…
Helium Reionization Simulations. I. Modeling Quasars as Radiation Sources
Paul La Plante, Hy Trac
We introduce a new project to understand helium reionization using fully coupled -body, hydrodynamics, and radiative transfer simulations. This project aims to capture correctly…
Reionization on Large Scales IV: Predictions for the 21 cm signal incorporating the light cone effect
Paul La Plante, Nicholas Battaglia, Aravind Natarajan +4
We present predictions for the 21 cm brightness temperature power spectrum during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). We discuss the implications of the "light cone" effect, which inc…