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

200 citations · 544 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Properties and limitations of linear models for mutual coupling in 21 cm arrays

Vincent MacKay, Robert Pascua, Eleanor Rath +7

Mutual coupling between elements of low-frequency arrays is a leading systematic for 21 cm cosmology, leaking bright foregrounds into otherwise clean regions of the power spectrum.…

astro-ph.IM2026

Overview of the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio Transient Detector (CHORD) Project

The CHORD Collaboration, Kevin Bandura, Leonid Belostotski +49

The Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD) is a next-generation wideband radio interferometer currently being constructed and commissioned at the Domini…

astro-ph.IM2026

Observations of the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization with the SKAO: Observational Lessons Learned from Precursors and Pathfinder Instruments

Eloy de Lera Acedo, James Aguirre, Dominic Anstey +34

This chapter summarizes the observational lessons learned after two decades of observations of the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) with SKAO pathfinders and precur…

math.NA2026

A Neural Score-Based Particle Method for the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau System

Vasily Ilin, Jingwei Hu

Plasma modeling is central to the design of nuclear fusion reactors, yet simulating collisional plasma kinetics from first principles remains a formidable computational challenge:…

astro-ph.IM2026

Correlation Calibration: A Hybrid Calibration Technique for Radio Interferometric Arrays

Robert Pascua, Jonathan Sievers, Adrian Liu

Calibrating out per-antenna signal chain effects is an essential step in analyzing radio interferometric data. For drift-scanning arrays, robustly calibrating the data is especiall…

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.IM2025★ 1 cited

fftvis: A Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform Based Interferometric Visibility Simulator

Tyler A. Cox, Steven G. Murray, Aaron R. Parsons +6

The detection and characterization of the 21cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) demands extraordinary precision in radio interferometric observations and analysis. For m…

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.CO2024★ 1 cited

A Generalized Method for Characterizing 21-cm Power Spectrum Signal Loss from Temporal Filtering of Drift-scanning Visibilities

Robert Pascua, Zachary E. Martinot, Adrian Liu +7

A successful detection of the cosmological 21-cm signal from intensity mapping experiments (for example, during the Epoch of Reioinization or Cosmic Dawn) is contingent on the supp…

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.CO2023

Spectral Redundancy for Calibrating Interferometers and Suppressing the Foreground Wedge in 21cm Cosmology

Tyler A. Cox, Aaron R. Parsons, Joshua S. Dillon +2

Observations of 21cm line from neutral hydrogen promise to be an exciting new probe of astrophysics and cosmology during the Cosmic Dawn and through the Epoch of Reionization (EoR)…

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★ 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.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.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.IM2020★ 57 cited

Redundant-Baseline Calibration of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Joshua S. Dillon, Max Lee, Zaki S. Ali +76

In 21 cm cosmology, precision calibration is key to the separation of the neutral hydrogen signal from very bright but spectrally-smooth astrophysical foregrounds. The Hydrogen Epo…