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most citedHydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) Phase II Deployment and Commissioning

33 citations · 71 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Bayesian power spectrum estimation with modelling of systematic effects in delay-fringe rate space

Sohini Dutta, Philip Bull, Jacob Burba +3

Observing the Epoch of Reionisation using 21cm radio interferometry has proven to be a challenging task. Extraction of the extremely faint redshifted signal is complicated by the p…

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.CO2026

Predicted number counts and clustering of Hi galaxies from future radio surveys

Ainulnabilah Nasirudin, Philip Bull, Isabelle Ye

The 21cm emission line from neutral hydrogen (HI) contained within galaxies provides a way to make accurate spectroscopic redshift determinations at radio frequencies. Large arrays…

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.CO2025

Systematic assessment of the Hubble tension via Bayesian jackknife testing

Thomas Hughes, Michael J. Wilensky, Philip Bull

Statistically-significant differences in the value of the Hubble parameter are found depending on the measurement method that is used, a result known as the Hubble tension. A varie…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Exploring One-point Statistics in HERA Phase I Data: Effects of Foregrounds and Systematics on Measuring One-Point Statistics

Honggeun Kim, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Nicholas S. Kern +61

Measuring one-point statistics in redshifted 21 cm intensity maps offers an opportunity to explore non-Gaussian features of the early universe. We assess the impact of instrumental…

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.IM2025★ 1 cited

High Dimensional Beam Inference II: Inference of a Perturbed HERA Beam from Simulated Visibility Data

Michael J. Wilensky, Philip Bull, Nicolas Fagnoni

Accurate beam modeling is important in many radio astronomy applications. In this paper, we focus on beam modeling for 21-cm intensity mapping experiments using radio interferomete…

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.IM2024★ 10 cited

RHINO: A large horn antenna for detecting the 21cm global signal

Philip Bull, Ahmed El-Makadema, Hugh Garsden +11

The sky-averaged brightness temperature of the 21cm line from neutral hydrogen provides a sensitive probe of the thermal state of the intergalactic medium, particularly before and…

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★ 2 cited

Modes of the Dark Ages 21cm field accessible to a lunar radio interferometer

Philip Bull, Caroline Guandalin, Chris Addis

At redshifts beyond , the 21cm line from neutral hydrogen is expected to be essentially the only viable probe of the 3D matter distribution. The lunar far-side is an…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 6 cited

Sensitivity of Bayesian 21 cm power spectrum estimation to foreground model errors

Jacob Burba, Philip Bull, Michael J. Wilensky +3

Power spectrum estimators are an important tool in efforts to detect the 21 cm brightness temperature fluctuations from neutral hydrogen at early times. An initial detection will l…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Disentangling the anisotropic radio sky: Fisher forecasts for 21cm arrays

Zheng Zhang, Philip Bull, Katrine A. Glasscock

The existence of a radio synchrotron background (RSB) excess is implied by a number of measurements, including excess emission seen by the ARCADE~2 and LWA experiments. Highly sens…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

Statistical estimation of full-sky radio maps from 21cm array visibility data using Gaussian constrained realizations

Katrine A. Glasscock, Philip Bull, Jacob Burba +2

An important application of next-generation wide-field radio interferometers is making high dynamic range maps of radio emission. Traditional deconvolution methods like CLEAN can g…

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.IM2023★ 4 cited

Bayesian estimation of cross-coupling and reflection systematics in 21cm array visibility data

Geoff G. Murphy, Philip Bull, Mario G. Santos +76

Observations with radio arrays that target the 21-cm signal originating from the early Universe suffer from a variety of systematic effects. An important class of these are reflect…

astro-ph.IM2023

Direct Optimal Mapping Image Power Spectrum and its Window Functions

Zhilei Xu, Honggeun Kim, Jacqueline N. Hewitt +79

The key to detecting neutral hydrogen during the epoch of reionization (EoR) is to separate the cosmological signal from the dominating foreground radiation. We developed direct op…

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…