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most citedCosmology with Phase 1 of the Square Kilometre Array; Red Book 2018: Technical specifications and performance forecasts

309 citations · 1.1k across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological Inference with Gravitational-Wave Dark Sirens and 21-cm Intensity Mapping: Forecasts for LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA with MeerKAT and SKAO

Dounia Nanadoumgar-Lacroze, Konstantin Leyde, Steven Cunnington +8

Gravitational waves (GWs) and 21-cm intensity mapping (IM) are emerging as complementary cosmological probes: GWs provide direct luminosity-distance measurements, while neutral-hyd…

astro-ph.CO2026

Beyond ΛCDM with the SKA Observatory -- II: Unveiling the Secrets of the Early Universe

José Fonseca, Benedict Bahr-Kalus, Mario Ballardini +12

The origins of the universe remain one of the biggest mysteries in modern cosmology. While the Planck satellite has provided a wealth of information about the early universe, there…

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

Cosmology with Intensity Mapping via Statistics Beyond the Power Spectrum in the SKAO Era

Suman Majumdar, Debanjan Sarkar, Leon Noble +38

The cosmological distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) during the post-reionization era is highly non-Gaussian due to the underlying non-linear structure formation, complex galaxy…

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

Cosmology from Synergies Between SKAO Surveys and Gravitational Wave Observations

Tessa Baker, Alberto Colombo, Steven Cunnington +11

Both radio surveys and gravitational wave observations have the potential to probe unprecedented volumes in the Universe with systematics independent of existing cosmological probe…

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.CO2026

Tracing Large-scale Structure with the MeerKLASS On-the-Fly Survey: Angular Clustering of Radio Sources at 816 MHz

Sourabh Paul, Suman Chatterjee, Keith Grainge +8

We present the first measurement of the angular two-point correlation function \(w(θ)\) of radio sources from the MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey (MeerKLASS) UHF on-the-fly (OTF…

astro-ph.CO2026

Radio sirens: inferring with binary black holes and neutral hydrogen in the era of the Einstein Telescope and the SKA Observatory

Ulyana Dupletsa, Simone Mastrogiovanni, Marta Spinelli +11

A new synergy between gravitational waves (GWs) and the study of the large-scale structure of the Universe is now emerging. Along this line of research, we combine simulated observ…

astro-ph.IM2026

Bayesian component separation and power spectrum estimation for 21 cm intensity mapping data cubes

Geoff G. Murphy, Philip Bull, Mario G. Santos +2

Foreground removal remains an ongoing challenge in radio cosmology, and increasingly sensitive experiments necessitate more robust analysis techniques. In this work, we model simul…

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.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.IM2025★ 1 cited

Cosmology with ESO-SKAO Synergies

Mario G. Santos, Stefano Camera, Zhaoting Chen +2

We discuss the possible synergies for cosmology between SKAO and ESO facilities, focusing on the combinations SKA-Mid with the Multi-Object Spectrograph Telescope (4MOST) instrumen…

astro-ph.CO2024

CRAFTS for HI cosmology: I. data processing pipeline and validation tests

Wenxiu Yang, Laura Wolz, Yichao Li +20

We present the calibration procedures and validation of source measurement with the data of the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS) for \HI intensity mapping by the Five…

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

Modeling the Nonlinear Power Spectrum in Low-redshift HI Intensity Mapping

Zhixing Li, Laura Wolz, Hong Guo +2

We present a simulation-based framework to forecast the HI power spectrum on non-linear scales (), as measured by interferometer arrays like MeerKAT in…

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

Accurate Fourier-space statistics for line intensity mapping: Cartesian grid sampling without aliased power

Steven Cunnington, Laura Wolz

Estimators for -point clustering statistics in Fourier-space demand that modern surveys of large-scale structure be transformed to Cartesian coordinates to perform Fast Fourier…

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.CO2023

Mitigating the effect of 1/f noise on the detection of the HI intensity mapping power spectrum from single-dish measurements

Melis O. Irfan, Yichao Li, Mario G. Santos +5

We present and compare several methods to mitigate time-correlated (1/f) noise within the HI intensity mapping component of the MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey (MeerKLASS). By s…

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…