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The FAST HI 21-cm Absorption Blind Survey. III. OH Absorption Search in the 21-cm Absorber Sample and Continued HI Absorption Search
Wenkai Hu, Yougang Wang, Jeremy Darling +11
We present the first blind search for OH 18-cm absorption with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), conducted alongside the HI 21-cm absorption search. Our p…
Synthesis imaging with a lunar orbit array: III. Augmented lagrangian Multiplier Imaging using Gradient descent Optimization (AMIGO)
Meng Zhou, Furen Deng, Yidong Xu +1
Ground-based radio observations below 30 MHz are severely limited by ionospheric interference and radio frequency interference (RFI) from Earth. A lunar-orbiting radio interferomet…
High-Redshift Signatures from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization
Rennan Barkana, Oliver Basquette, Ankita Bera +22
In this chapter, we provide a comprehensive overview of the astrophysical and cosmological processes that shape the 21-cm signal during Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization. W…
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…
Exploring the Cosmic Dawn through the 21 cm Forest and High-redshift Radio Sources with the SKA
Junsong Cang, Benedetta Ciardi, Barun Maity +12
The 21~cm forest, seen as absorption features in the spectra of distant radio sources, is produced by intervening neutral hydrogen and offers a direct probe of the neutral intergal…
Wedge-avoidance Fisher Forecasts for Primordial Features from Dark-Ages 21-cm Power Spectrum and Bispectrum
Chen Zhang, Furen Deng, Yidong Xu +3
The Dark Ages offer a uniquely clean window on primordial physics, making the redshifted 21-cm signal a promising probe of inflation models. Forecasts for interferometric 21-cm mea…
A Designer's Guide to Lunar Far-Side Interferometer Array: Power Spectrum Measurement and Cosmological Constraints from the Dark Ages
Yuewei Wen, Bin Yue, Yidong Xu +4
The 21-cm emission line from neutral hydrogen during the cosmic Dark Ages can be a powerful probe of cosmological models and early universe physics. This work provides a quantitati…
Constraining Lyman-Werner Feedback from Velocity Acoustic Oscillations in the Cosmic Dawn 21 cm Signal
Xi Du, Bin Yue, Furen Deng +4
During Cosmic Dawn, Pop III stars could be formed in minihalos through molecular hydrogen (H) cooling. The minimum halo mass required for H cooling is highly sensitive to L…
Probing power spectrum enhancement at small scales with the SKA
Hourui Zhu, Bin Yue, Yidong Xu +2
The reionization process is driven by ionizing photons from dwarf galaxies in halos with virial temperature K, while minihalos whose $T_{\rm vir}\lesssim…
Primordial black holes and the velocity acoustic oscillations features in 21 cm signals from the cosmic Dark Ages
Zhihe Zhang, Bin Yue, Yidong Xu +2
Astrophysical luminous objects such as the first stars have not yet formed in the Dark Ages. However, primordial black holes (PBHs) always exist throughout cosmic history since the…
Synthesis imaging with a lunar orbit array: II. Impacts of instrument-induced phase errors
Meng Zhou, Furen Deng, Yidong Xu +2
A lunar orbit interferometer array suffers from a number of systematics. Beyond systematics induced by the imaging algorithm itself and thermal noise considered in Paper I, phase e…
Synthesis imaging with a lunar orbit array: I. global sky map and its systematics
Furen Deng, Yidong Xu, Fengquan Wu +3
Ground-based radio astronomical observation at frequencies below 30 MHz is hampered by the Ionosphere and radio frequency interference (RFI). The Discovering Sky at the Longest wav…
The Formation of Direct Collapse Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn and 21 cm Global Spectrum
Meng Zhang, Bin Yue, Yidong Xu +1
JWST reveals numerous high-z galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs), suggesting that stars and SMBH seeds formation at may be more efficient than previously d…
Reconstructing the Anisotropic Ultra-long Wavelength Spectra using a Single Antenna on Lunar-orbit
Qige Ao, Furen Deng, Yidong Xu +3
The ultra-long wavelength sky ( MHz) is still largely unexplored, as the electromagnetic wave is heavily absorbed and distorted by the ionosphere on Earth. The far-si…
Loop I/NPS morphology predictions in the ultralong-wavelength band
Yanping Cong, Bin Yue, Yidong Xu +3
Loop I/North Polar Spur (NPS) is the giant arc structure above the Galactic plane observed at radio wavelengths ( GHz). There has been long-standing debate about its o…
Prospects for Observing High-redshift Radio-loud Quasars in the SKA Era: Paving the Way for 21-cm Forest Observations
Qi Niu, Yichao Li, Yidong Xu +2
The 21-cm forest is a sensitive probe for the early heating process and small-scale structures during the epoch of reionization (EoR), to be realized with the upcoming Square Kilom…
The FAST HI 21-cm absorption blind survey. II. -- Statistic Exploration for Associated and Intervening systems
Wenkai Hu, Yougang Wang, Yichao Li +12
We present an extragalactic HI 21-cm absorption lines catalog from a blind search at z 0.35, using drift-scan data collected in 1325.6 hours by the ongoing Commensal Ra…
Deep learning-driven likelihood-free parameter inference for 21-cm forest observations
Tian-Yang Sun, Yue Shao, Yichao Li +3
The hyperfine structure absorption lines of neutral hydrogen in spectra of high-redshift radio sources, known collectively as the 21-cm forest, have been demonstrated as a sensitiv…
Forecast measurement of the 21 cm global spectrum from Lunar orbit with the Vari-Zeroth-Order Polynomial (VZOP) method
Tianyang Liu, Jiajun Zhang, Yuan Shi +7
The cosmic 21 cm signal serves as a crucial probe for studying the evolutionary history of the Universe. However, detecting the 21 cm signal poses significant challenges due to its…
Large-scale Array for Radio Astronomy on the Farside
Xuelei Chen, Feng Gao, Fengquan Wu +20
At the Royal Society meeting in 2023, we have mainly presented our lunar orbit array concept called DSL, and also briefly introduced a concept of a lunar surface array, LARAF. As t…
Velocity acoustic oscillations on Cosmic Dawn 21 cm power spectrum as a probe of small-scale density fluctuations
Xin Zhang, Hengjie Lin, Meng Zhang +4
We investigate the feasibility of using the velocity acoustic oscillations (VAO) features on the Cosmic Dawn 21 cm power spectrum to probe small-scale density fluctuations. In the…
The 21-cm forest as a simultaneous probe of dark matter and cosmic heating history
Yue Shao, Yidong Xu, Yougang Wang +4
The absorption features in spectra of high-redshift background radio sources, caused by hyperfine structure lines of hydrogen atoms in the intervening structures, are known collect…
Detections of 21-cm absorption with a blind FAST survey at z 0.09
Wenkai Hu, Yougang Wang, Yichao Li +10
We present the early science results from a blind search of the extragalactic HI 21-cm absorption lines at z 0.09 with the drift-scan observation of the Five-hundred-me…
Reionizing islands with inhomogeneous recombinations
Runyu Zhu, Yidong Xu, Bin Yue +1
Observations are beginning to constrain the history of the epoch of reionization (EoR). Modeling the reionization process is indispensable to interpret the observations, to infer t…