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Optimizing Foreground Modelling for Global 21cm Cosmology with GPU-Accelerated Nested Sampling
Jacob L. Tutt, Peter H. Sims, Joe H. N. Pattison +3
The global 21-cm signal provides a powerful probe of early-Universe astrophysics, but its detection is hindered by Galactic foregrounds that are orders of magnitude brighter than t…
RFSoC receiver calibration system for 21-cm global spectrum experiments from space: The CosmoCube case
Jiacong Zhu, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Kaan Artuc +1
The CosmoCube project plans to deploy a global 21-cm spectrometer with 10-100 MHz observation band in a lunar orbit. The farside part of such an orbit, i.e. the part of orbit behin…
Receiver design for the REACH global 21-cm signal experiment
Ian L. V. Roque, Nima Razavi-Ghods, Steven H. Carey +35
We detail the the REACH radiometric system designed to enable measurements of the 21-cm neutral hydrogen line. Included is the radiometer architecture and end-to-end system simulat…
The effects of the antenna power pattern uncertainty within a global 21 cm experiment
John Cumner, Carla Pieterse, Dirk De Villiers +1
Experimental 21 cm cosmology aims to detect the formation of the first stars during the cosmic dawn and the subsequent epoch of reionization by utilizing the 21 cm hydrogen line tr…
A Broadband Multipole Method for Accelerated Mutual Coupling Analysis of Large Irregular Arrays Including Rotated Antennas
Quentin Gueuning, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Anthony Keith Brown +2
We present a numerical method for the analysis of mutual coupling effects in large, dense and irregular arrays with identical antennas. Building on the Method of Moments (MoM), our…
High-dimensional inference of radio interferometer beam patterns I: Parametric model of the HERA beams
Michael J. Wilensky, Jacob Burba, Philip Bull +6
Accurate modelling of the primary beam is an important but difficult task in radio astronomy. For high dynamic range problems such as 21cm intensity mapping, small modelling errors…