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most citedFirst Results from HERA Phase I: Upper Limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Power Spectrum

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astro-ph.CO2025

First Results from HERA Phase II

The HERA Collaboration, Zuhra Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams +83

We report the first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21-cm fluctuations during the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn from Phase II of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Ar…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Exploring One-point Statistics in HERA Phase I Data: Effects of Foregrounds and Systematics on Measuring One-Point Statistics

Honggeun Kim, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Nicholas S. Kern +61

Measuring one-point statistics in redshifted 21 cm intensity maps offers an opportunity to explore non-Gaussian features of the early universe. We assess the impact of instrumental…

astro-ph.CO2024

Impacts and Statistical Mitigation of Missing Data on the 21cm Power Spectrum: A Case Study with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Kai-Feng Chen, Michael J. Wilensky, Adrian Liu +66

The precise characterization and mitigation of systematic effects is one of the biggest roadblocks impeding the detection of the fluctuations of cosmological 21cm signals. Missing…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Mitigating calibration errors from mutual coupling with time-domain filtering of 21 cm cosmological radio observations

N. Charles, N. S. Kern, R. Pascua +80

The 21 cm transition from neutral Hydrogen promises to be the best observational probe of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). This has led to the construction of low-frequency radio i…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Investigating Mutual Coupling in the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array and Mitigating its Effects on the 21-cm Power Spectrum

E. Rath, R. Pascua, A. T. Josaitis +78

Interferometric experiments designed to detect the highly redshifted 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen are producing increasingly stringent constraints on the 21-cm power spectrum…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

A demonstration of the effect of fringe-rate filtering in the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array delay power spectrum pipeline

Hugh Garsden, Philip Bull, Mike Wilensky +94

Radio interferometers targeting the 21cm brightness temperature fluctuations at high redshift are subject to systematic effects that operate over a range of different timescales. T…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 33 cited

Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) Phase II Deployment and Commissioning

Lindsay M. Berkhout, Daniel C. Jacobs, Zuhra Abdurashidova +93

This paper presents the design and deployment of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) phase II system. HERA is designed as a staged experiment targeting 21 cm emission m…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

matvis: A matrix-based visibility simulator for fast forward modelling of many-element 21 cm arrays

Piyanat Kittiwisit, Steven G. Murray, Hugh Garsden +95

Detection of the faint 21 cm line emission from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation will require not only exquisite control over instrumental calibration and systematics to a…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

Bayesian estimation of cross-coupling and reflection systematics in 21cm array visibility data

Geoff G. Murphy, Philip Bull, Mario G. Santos +76

Observations with radio arrays that target the 21-cm signal originating from the early Universe suffer from a variety of systematic effects. An important class of these are reflect…

astro-ph.IM2023

Direct Optimal Mapping Image Power Spectrum and its Window Functions

Zhilei Xu, Honggeun Kim, Jacqueline N. Hewitt +79

The key to detecting neutral hydrogen during the epoch of reionization (EoR) is to separate the cosmological signal from the dominating foreground radiation. We developed direct op…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Search for the Epoch of Reionisation with HERA: Upper Limits on the Closure Phase Delay Power Spectrum

Pascal M. Keller, Bojan Nikolic, Nithyanandan Thyagarajan +80

Radio interferometers aiming to measure the power spectrum of the redshifted 21 cm line during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) need to achieve an unprecedented dynamic range to sep…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Bayesian jackknife tests with a small number of subsets: Application to HERA 21cm power spectrum upper limits

Michael J. Wilensky, Fraser Kennedy, Philip Bull +2

We present a Bayesian jackknife test for assessing the probability that a data set contains biased subsets, and, if so, which of the subsets are likely to be biased. The test can b…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 12 cited

Characterization Of Inpaint Residuals In Interferometric Measurements of the Epoch Of Reionization

Michael Pagano, Jing Liu, Adrian Liu +75

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is one of the systematic challenges preventing 21cm interferometric instruments from detecting the Epoch of Reionization. To mitigate the effects…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 184 cited

Improved Constraints on the 21 cm EoR Power Spectrum and the X-Ray Heating of the IGM with HERA Phase I Observations

The HERA Collaboration, Zara Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams +92

We report the most sensitive upper limits to date on the 21 cm epoch of reionization power spectrum using 94 nights of observing with Phase I of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 15 cited

Impact of instrument and data characteristics in the interferometric reconstruction of the 21 cm power spectrum

Adélie Gorce, Samskruthi Ganjam, Adrian Liu +75

Combining the visibilities measured by an interferometer to form a cosmological power spectrum is a complicated process. In a delay-based analysis, the mapping between instrumental…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 10 cited

Direct Optimal Mapping for 21cm Cosmology: A Demonstration with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Zhilei Xu, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Kai-Feng Chen +78

Motivated by the desire for wide-field images with well-defined statistical properties for 21cm cosmology, we implement an optimal mapping pipeline that computes a maximum likeliho…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 200 cited

First Results from HERA Phase I: Upper Limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Power Spectrum

The HERA Collaboration, Zara Abdurashidova, James E. Aguirre +74

We report upper-limits on the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21 cm power spectrum at redshifts 7.9 and 10.4 with 18 nights of data ( hours of integration) from Phase I of the…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 165 cited

HERA Phase I Limits on the Cosmic 21-cm Signal: Constraints on Astrophysics and Cosmology During the Epoch of Reionization

The HERA Collaboration, Zara Abdurashidova, James E. Aguirre +81

Recently, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) collaboration has produced the experiment's first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21-cm fluctuations at z~8 and 10.…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 27 cited

Validation of the HERA Phase I Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Power Spectrum Software Pipeline

James E. Aguirre, Steven G. Murray, Robert Pascua +73

We describe the validation of the HERA Phase I software pipeline by a series of modular tests, building up to an end-to-end simulation. The philosophy of this approach is to valida…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 9 cited

Effects of model incompleteness on the drift-scan calibration of radio telescopes

Bharat K. Gehlot, Daniel C. Jacobs, Judd D. Bowman +76

Precision calibration poses challenges to experiments probing the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization (z~30-6). In both inter…

astro-ph.IM2021

A Real Time Processing System for Big Data in Astronomy: Applications to HERA

Paul La Plante, Peter K. G. Williams, Matthew Kolopanis +72

As current- and next-generation astronomical instruments come online, they will generate an unprecedented deluge of data. Analyzing these data in real time presents unique conceptu…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 18 cited

Methods of Error Estimation for Delay Power Spectra in Cosmology

Jianrong Tan, Adrian Liu, Nicholas S. Kern +71

Precise measurements of the 21 cm power spectrum are crucial for understanding the physical processes of hydrogen reionization. Currently, this probe is being pursued by low-freque…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 23 cited

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…