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most citedTowards 21-cm Intensity Mapping at with uGMRT using the Tapered Gridded Estimator I: Foreground Avoidance

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astro-ph.CO2026

Foreground Characterization and Mitigation in the Observations of the CD/EoR with the SKA

Philip Bull, Jacob Burba, Emilio Ceccotti +20

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), with its unprecedented sensitivity, frequency coverage, and large collecting area, is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Cosmic Dawn…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

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.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…

astro-ph.CO2026

Observational Frontiers in the post-EoR 21-cm Intensity Mapping: Lessons from the SKA Pathfinders

Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj, Philip Bull +21

The 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen has long been recognised as a promising tracer of the large-scale structure of the Universe. The line is weak however, making individual galaxy…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Tracking Tapered Gridded Estimator for the 21-cm power spectrum from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) drift scan observations -- III. Improved upper limits at from multiple pointings

Shouvik Sarkar, Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Samir Choudhuri +5

We analyze zenith-pointing Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) drift scan observations covering with 1…

astro-ph.IM2026

Bayes-SCF: A Bayesian filter to mitigate foreground leakage in the 21-cm power spectrum

Khandakar Md Asif Elahi

Missing channels in radio-interferometric visibility data can introduce systematic artefacts into the estimated 21-cm power spectrum. A common workaround is to first estimate the t…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Bispectrum at from MWA data II: Smooth Component Filtering

Sukhdeep Singh Gill, Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj +2

The 21 cm bispectrum (BS) offers a powerful probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), but its observational access is severely hindered by dominant astrophysical foregrounds. Consi…

astro-ph.CO2025

Deep uGMRT observations for enhanced calibration of 21 cm arrays -- I. First image and source catalogue

Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Samir Choudhuri, Nirupam Roy +3

Radio-interferometric arrays require very precise calibration to detect the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal. A remarkably complete and accurate sky model is therefore needed in…

astro-ph.CO2025

The EoR 21-cm Bispectrum at from MWA data I: Foregrounds and preliminary upper limits

Sukhdeep Singh Gill, Somnath Bharadwaj, Khandakar Md Asif Elahi +2

We attempt to measure the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm bispectrum (BS) using Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) data. We find that $B(k_{1\perp}, k…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

A measurement of Galactic synchrotron emission using MWA drift scan observations

Suman Chatterjee, Shouvik Sarkar, Samir Choudhuri +4

Studying the diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission (hereafter, DGSE) at arc-minute angular scale is important to remove the foregrounds for the cosmological 21-cm observations. Sta…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The Evolving Power Spectrum for the light cone Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal

Suman Pramanick, Somnath Bharadwaj, Khandakar Md Asif Elahi +1

The rapid evolution of the cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution during the EoR is imprinted along the line of sight (LoS) in the redshifted 21-cm signal due to the light…

astro-ph.CO2025

Calibration requirements for Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal observations -- IV. Bias and variance with time and frequency correlated residual gains

Saikat Gayen, Jais Kumar, Prasun Dutta +3

Observation of multifrequency angular power spectrum of the redshifted 21-cm brightness temperature fluctuation from the neutral hydrogen holds the key to understand the structure…

astro-ph.CO2025

A visibility-based angular bispectrum estimator for radio-interferometric data

Sukhdeep Singh Gill, Somnath Bharadwaj, Sk. Saiyad Ali +1

Considering radio-interferometric observations, we present a fast and efficient estimator to compute the binned angular bispectrum (ABS) from gridded visibility data. The estimator…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Tracking Tapered Gridded Estimator for the 21-cm power spectrum from MWA drift scan observations II: The Missing Frequency Channels

Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj, Suman Chatterjee +4

Missing frequency channels pose a problem for estimating the redshifted 21-cm power spectrum (PS) from radio-interferometric visibility data. This is parti…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 11 cited

The Tracking Tapered Gridded Estimator for the 21-cm power spectrum from MWA drift scan observations I: Validation and preliminary results

Suman Chatterjee, Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj +4

Drift scan observations provide the broad sky coverage and instrumental stability needed to measure the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal. In such observations, the telescop…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 9 cited

Towards -cm intensity mapping at with uGMRT using the tapered gridded estimator -- IV. Wideband analysis

Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj, Srijita Pal +8

We present a Wideband Tapered Gridded Estimator (TGE), which incorporates baseline migration and variation of the primary beam pattern for neutral hydrogen (${\rm H\hspace{0.5mm}}{…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

Towards -cm intensity mapping at with uGMRT using the tapered gridded estimator III: Foreground removal

Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj, Srijita Pal +8

Neutral hydrogen (HI) -cm intensity mapping (IM) is a promising probe of the large-scale structures in the Universe. However, a few orders of magnitude brighter foregrounds obs…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 8 cited

Towards -cm intensity mapping at with uGMRT using the tapered gridded estimator II: Cross-polarization power spectrum

Kh. Md. Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj, Abhik Ghosh +8

Neutral hydrogen () -cm intensity mapping (IM) offers an efficient technique for mapping the large-scale structures in the universe. We introduce the 'Cross' Tapered G…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 14 cited

Towards 21-cm Intensity Mapping at with uGMRT using the Tapered Gridded Estimator I: Foreground Avoidance

Srijita Pal, Kh. Md. Asif Elahi, Somnath Bharadwaj +8

The post-reionization neutral hydrogen (HI) 21-cm intensity mapping signal holds the potential to probe the large scale structures, study the expansion history and cons…