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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…
Development of TIFUUN: Terahertz Integral Field Units with Universal Nanotechnology
Akira Endo, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Jochem J. A. Baselmans +50
TIFUUN (THz Integral Field Units with Universal Nanotechnology) is an ultra-wideband mm-submm wave imaging spectrometer that capitalizes on the highly scalable integrated supercond…
gateau: an observation simulator for ground-based submillimeter astronomy with integral field units and kinetic inductance detectors
A. Moerman, N. Soshnin, S. A. Brackenhoff +7
Submillimeter (submm) integral field units (IFUs) utilising kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) are a promising instrument architecture for the study of galaxies, galaxy clusters,…
The impact of lunar topography on the 21-cm power spectrum for grid-based arrays : Insights for the Dark-ages EXplorer (DEX)
S. Ghosh, L. V. E. Koopmans, C. Brinkerink +17
The Dark Ages (DA) provides a crucial window into the physics of the infant Universe, with the 21-cm signal offering the only direct probe for mapping out the three-dimensional dis…
Improved upper limits on the 21-cm signal power spectrum at and from an optimal field observed with NenuFAR
S. Munshi, F. G. Mertens, J. K. Chege +19
We report the deepest upper limits to date on the power spectrum of the 21-cm signal during the Cosmic Dawn (redshifts: ), using four nights of observations with NenuFAR. The…
Mitigating incoherent excess variance in high-redshift 21 cm observations with multi-output cross-Gaussian process regression
S. Munshi, L. V. E. Koopmans, F. G. Mertens +8
Systematic effects that limit the achievable sensitivity of current low-frequency radio telescopes to the 21 cm signal are among the foremost challenges in observational 21 cm cosm…
Constraints on the state of the IGM at using redshifted 21-cm observations with LOFAR
R. Ghara, S. Zaroubi, B. Ciardi +21
The power spectra of the redshifted 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) contain information about the ionization and thermal states of the intergalactic medium (IGM),…
First upper limits on the 21-cm signal power spectrum of neutral hydrogen at from the LOFAR 3C196 field
E. Ceccotti, A. R. Offringa, F. G. Mertens +16
The redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) can potentially be detected using low-frequency radio instruments such as the Low-Frequency Arr…
Deeper multi-redshift upper limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal power spectrum from LOFAR between z=8.3 and z=10.1
F. G. Mertens, M. Mevius, L. V. E. Koopmans +20
We present new upper limits on the 21-cm signal power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts , based on reprocessed obse…
The impact of diffuse Galactic emission on direction-independent gain calibration in high-redshift 21 cm observations
C. Höfer, L. V. E. Koopmans, S. A. Brackenhoff +7
This study examines the impact of diffuse Galactic emission (DGE) on sky-based direction-independent (DI) gain calibration using realistic forward simulations of Low-Frequency Arra…
Robust direction-dependent gain-calibration of beam-modelling errors far from the target field
S. A. Brackenhoff, A. R. Offringa, M. Mevius +8
Many astronomical questions require deep, wide-field observations at low radio frequencies. Phased arrays like LOFAR and SKA-low are designed for this, but have inherently unstable…
Square Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 3a: foreground removal for an EoR experiment
A. Bonaldi, P. Hartley, R. Braun +179
We present and analyse the results of the Science data challenge 3a (SDC3a, https://sdc3.skao.int/challenges/foregrounds), an EoR foreground-removal community-wide exercise organis…
Spectral modelling of Cygnus A between 110 and 250 MHz. Impact on the LOFAR 21-cm signal power spectrum
E. Ceccotti, A. R. Offringa, L. V. E. Koopmans +15
Studying the redshifted 21-cm signal from the the neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn is fundamental for understanding the physics of the early univer…
Extracting the Epoch of Reionization Signal with 3D U-Net Neural Networks Using Data-driven Systematic Effect Model
Li-Yang Gao, Léon V. E. Koopmans, Florent G. Mertens +11
Neutral hydrogen (HI) serves as a crucial probe for the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Actual observations of the 21-cm signal often encounter challenges such as…
Ionospheric contributions to the excess power in high-redshift 21-cm power-spectrum observations with LOFAR
S. A. Brackenhoff, M. Mevius, L. V. E. Koopmans +9
The turbulent ionosphere causes phase shifts to incoming radio waves on a broad range of temporal and spatial scales. When an interferometer is not sufficiently calibrated for the…
The impact of lossy data compression on the power spectrum of the high redshift 21-cm signal with LOFAR
J. K. Chege, L. V. E. Koopmans, A. R. Offringa +8
Current radio interferometers output multi-petabyte-scale volumes of data per year making the storage, transfer, and processing of this data a sizeable challenge. This challenge is…
Beyond the horizon: Quantifying the full sky foreground wedge in the cylindrical power spectrum
S. Munshi, F. G. Mertens, L. V. E. Koopmans +8
One of the main obstacles preventing the detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen in the early Universe is the astrophysical foreground emission, which is sev…
Transient RFI environment of LOFAR-LBA at 72-75 MHz: Impact on ultra-widefield AARTFAAC Cosmic Explorer observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal
B. K. Gehlot, L. V. E. Koopmans, S. A. Brackenhoff +13
Measurement of the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) promises to unveil a wealth of information about the astrop…
First upper limits on the 21 cm signal power spectrum from cosmic dawn from one night of observations with NenuFAR
S. Munshi, F. G. Mertens, L. V. E. Koopmans +24
The redshifted 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen is a direct probe of the physics of the early universe and has been an important science driver of many present and upcoming radio…
A novel radio imaging method for physical spectral index modelling
E. Ceccotti, A. R. Offringa, L. V. E. Koopmans +9
We present a new method, called "forced-spectrum fitting", for physically-based spectral modelling of radio sources during deconvolution. This improves upon current common deconvol…
Assessing the impact of two independent direction-dependent calibration algorithms on the LOFAR 21-cm signal power spectrum
H. Gan, F. G. Mertens, L. V. E. Koopmans +11
Detecting the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) is challenging due to the strong astrophysical foregrounds, ionospheric effects, radio frequency interference and in…
DESHIMA 2.0: development of an integrated superconducting spectrometer for science-grade astronomical observations
Akio Taniguchi, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Jochem J. A. Baselmans +32
Integrated superconducting spectrometer (ISS) technology will enable ultra-wideband, integral-field spectroscopy for (sub)millimeter-wave astronomy, in particular, for uncovering t…
TiEMPO: Open-source time-dependent end-to-end model for simulating ground-based submillimeter astronomical observations
Esmee Huijten, Yannick Roelvink, Stefanie A. Brackenhoff +14
The next technological breakthrough in millimeter-submillimeter astronomy is 3D imaging spectrometry with wide instantaneous spectral bandwidths and wide fields of view. The total…
Detection of polarization neutral points in observations of the combined corona and sky during the 21 August 2017 total solar eclipse
Frans Snik, Steven P. Bos, Stefanie A. Brackenhoff +7
We report the results of polarimetric observations of the total solar eclipse of 21 August 2017 from Rexburg, Idaho (USA). We use three synchronized DSLR cameras with polarization…