Quantifying Foreground Contamination in the Dark Ages 21 cm Power Spectrum Using an Electromagnetically Simulated Dipole Antenna Atop a Dielectric Surface

Willow Smith, Jonathan C. Pober, Bang D. Nahn +2

The highly-redshifted 21 cm signal from the cosmic Dark Ages presents an exciting frontier for cosmology, with the potential to observe a large number of Fourier modes of the cosmi…