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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
Impact of instrument and data characteristics in the interferometric reconstruction of the 21 cm power spectrum
Adélie Gorce, Samskruthi Ganjam, Adrian Liu +75
Combining the visibilities measured by an interferometer to form a cosmological power spectrum is a complicated process. In a delay-based analysis, the mapping between instrumental…
Prospects for 21cm-Galaxy Cross-Correlations with HERA and the Roman High-Latitude Survey
Paul La Plante, Jordan Mirocha, Adélie Gorce +2
The cross-correlation between the 21 cm field and the galaxy distribution is a potential probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The 21 cm signal traces neutral gas in the interg…
Direct Optimal Mapping for 21cm Cosmology: A Demonstration with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
Zhilei Xu, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Kai-Feng Chen +78
Motivated by the desire for wide-field images with well-defined statistical properties for 21cm cosmology, we implement an optimal mapping pipeline that computes a maximum likeliho…
Precision Calibration of Radio Interferometers for 21 cm Cosmology with No Redundancy and Little Knowledge of Antenna Beams and the Radio Sky
Aaron Ewall-Wice, Joshua S. Dillon, Bharat Gehlot +3
We introduce CALAMITY, a precision bandpass calibration method for radio interferometry. CALAMITY can solve for direction independent gains with arbitrary frequency structure to th…
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…
HERA Phase I Limits on the Cosmic 21-cm Signal: Constraints on Astrophysics and Cosmology During the Epoch of Reionization
The HERA Collaboration, Zara Abdurashidova, James E. Aguirre +81
Recently, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) collaboration has produced the experiment's first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21-cm fluctuations at z~8 and 10.…
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…
Detection of Cosmic Structures using the Bispectrum Phase. II. First Results from Application to Cosmic Reionization Using the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Chris L. Carilli, Bojan Nikolic +69
Characterizing the epoch of reionization (EoR) at via the redshifted 21 cm line of neutral Hydrogen (HI) is critical to modern astrophysics and cosmology, and thus a k…
Foreground modelling via Gaussian process regression: an application to HERA data
Abhik Ghosh, Florent Mertens, Gianni Bernardi +70
The key challenge in the observation of the redshifted 21-cm signal from cosmic reionization is its separation from the much brighter foreground emission. Such separation relies on…
DAYENU: A Simple Filter of Smooth Foregrounds for Intensity Mapping Power Spectra
Aaron Ewall-Wice, Nicholas Kern, Joshua S. Dillon +14
We introduce DAYENU, a linear, spectral filter for HI intensity mapping that achieves the desirable foreground mitigation and error minimization properties of inverse co-variance w…
A simplified, lossless re-analysis of PAPER-64
Matthew Kolopanis, Daniel C. Jacobs, Carina Cheng +20
We present limits on the 21cm power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) using data from the 64 antenna configuration of the Donald C. Backer Precision Array for Probing t…
Tomography of the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Eras with Multiple Tracers
Tzu-Ching Chang, Angus Beane, Olivier Dore +41
The Cosmic Dawn and Reionization epochs remain a fundamental but challenging frontier of astrophysics and cosmology. We advocate a large-scale, multi-tracer approach to develop a c…
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Insights Into the Epoch of Reionization with the Highly-Redshifted 21-cm Line
Steven Furlanetto, Chris L. Carilli, Jordan Mirocha +47
The epoch of reionization, when photons from early galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium about a billion years after the Big Bang, is the last major phase transition in the Uni…
Cosmology with the Highly Redshifted 21cm Line
Adrian Liu, James Aguirre, Yacine Ali-Haimoud +47
In addition to being a probe of Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization astrophysics, the 21cm line at is also a powerful way to constrain cosmology. Its power derives from sev…
Astro2020 Science White Paper: First Stars and Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn with Redshifted 21-cm Observations
Jordan Mirocha, Daniel Jacobs, Josh Dillon +39
The "cosmic dawn" refers to the period of the Universe's history when stars and black holes first formed and began heating and ionizing hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM).…
Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Fundamental Cosmology in the Dark Ages with 21-cm Line Fluctuations
Steven Furlanetto, Judd D. Bowman, Jordan Mirocha +43
The Dark Ages are the period between the last scattering of the cosmic microwave background and the appearance of the first luminous sources, spanning approximately 1100 < z < 30.…