Redshifted 21cm-line signal from neutral hydrogens in the intergalactic medium (IGM) gives a direct probe of the epoch of reionization (EoR). In this paper, we investigate the potential of the variance and skewness of the probability distribution function of the 21cm brightness temperature for constraining EoR models. These statistical quantities are simple, easy to calculate from the observed visibility and thus suitable for the early exploration of the EoR with ongoing telescopes such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR). We show, by performing Fisher analysis, that the variance and skewness at $z=7-9$ are complementary to each other to constrain the EoR model parameters such as the minimum virial temperature of halos which host luminous objects, ionizing efficiency and mean free path of ionizing photons in the IGM. Quantitatively, the constraining power highly depends on the quality of the foreground subtraction and calibration. We give a best case estimate of the constraints on the parameters, neglecting the systematics other than the thermal noise.
A number of current and future experiments aim to detect the reionization of neutral hydrogen by the first stars and galaxies in the Universe via the redshifted 21cm line. Using the \textsc{BlueTides} simulation, we investigate the measurement of an \textit{average} ionised region towards the beginning of reionization by stacking redshifted 21cm images around optically identified bright galaxies using mock observations. We find that with an SKA 1000 hour observation, assuming perfect foreground subtraction, a $5σ$ detection of a stacked HII region can be made with 30 images around some of the …
The bispectrum can quantify the non-Gussianity present in the redshifted 21-cm signal produced by the neutral hydrogen (HI) during the epoch of reionization (EoR). Motivated by this, we perform a comprehensive study of the EoR 21-cm bispectrum using simulated signals. Given a model of reionization, we demonstrate the behaviour of the bispectrum for all unique triangles in $k$ space. For ease of identification of the unique triangles, we parametrize the $k$-triangle space with two parameters, namely the ratio of the two arms of the triangle ($n=k_2/k_1$) and the cosine of the angle between them…
Probing statistical distribution of the neutral hydrogen (\HI) using the redshifted 21-cm hyperfine-transition spectral line holds the key to understand the formation and evolution of the matter density in the universe. The two-point statistics of the \HI distribution can be estimated by measuring the power spectrum of the redshifted 21-cm signal using visibility correlation. A major challenge in this regard is that the expected signal is weak compared to the foreground contribution from the Galactic synchrotron emission and extragalactic point sources in the observing frequencies. In this wor…
21cm-line bispectrum as method to probe Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization
红移21 cm信号是研究宇宙黎明期和再电离期星系际介质状态的有效工具。在我们之前的工作中(Shimabukuro et al 2015),我们研究了方差和偏度,以给出21 cm功率谱的清晰解释,并发现偏度是X射线加热变得有效的时期的良好指标。因此,21厘米信号的空间分布的非高斯特征有望用于研究CD和EoR中的天体物理效应。在本文中,为了更详细地研究这种非高斯特征,我们专注于21厘米信号的双谱。21 cm亮温双谱可能是由于Wouthysen-Field(WF)效应、X射线加热和再电离等多种天体物理效应引起的非高斯性而产生的。我们研究了21厘米双谱的各种性质,如尺度依赖性、形状依赖性和红移演化。并研究了21 cm双谱各分量的贡献。我们发现,各分量的贡献具有典型的尺度依赖特征,在未来的实验中,我们可以利用21 cm双谱,结合功率谱和偏度,获得更详细的CD和EoR中IGM的信息。
Detecting neutral hydrogen structures in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during cosmic reionization via absorption (21 cm forest) against a background radiation is considered independent and complementary to the three-dimensional tomography and power spectrum techniques. The direct detection of this absorption requires very bright ($\gtrsim 10$-100 mJy) background sources at high redshifts ($z\gtrsim 8$), which are evidently rare; very long times of integration; or instruments of very high sensitivity. This motivates a statistical one-dimensional (1D) power spectrum approach along narrow sightl…
Observation of the redshifted 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization is a challenging endeavor in observational cosmology. Presence of orders of magnitude brighter astrophysical foregrounds and various instrumental systematics increases the complexity of these observations. This work presents an end-to-end pipeline dealing with synthetic interferometric data of sensitive radio observations . The mock sky model includes the redshifted 21-cm signal and astrophysical foregrounds. The effects of calibration error and position error in the extraction of the redshifted 21-cm power s…
We study constraints on allowed reionization histories by comparing predictions of a physical semi-numerical model with secondary temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Our model has four free parameters characterizing the evolution of ionizing efficiency $ζ$ and the minimum mass $M_{\mathrm{min}}$ of haloes that can produce ionizing radiation. Comparing the model predictions with the presently available data of the optical depth $τ$ and kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal, we find that we can already rule out a significant region of the parameter sp…
Calibration requirements for Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal observations -- IV. Bias and variance with time and frequency correlated residual gains
Global signal in the redshifted hydrogen 21-cm line from the Dark Ages and Cosmic Dawn: Dependence on the nature of dark matter and modeling of first light
We assess the probable redshift (z_rei ~ 7) for full reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) using a prescription for the co-moving star-formation-rate (SFR) density (rho_SFR) required to maintain photoionization against recombination. Our newly developed on-line reionization simulator allows users to assess the required SFR and ionization histories, using a variety of assumptions for galactic and stellar populations, IGM clumping factor and temperature, and LyC escape fraction. The decline in high-redshift galaxy candidates and Lya emitters at z = 6-8 suggests a rising neutral fraction…
Imaging the 21-cm Signal from the Cosmic Dawn & Epoch of Reionization and the Connection with the Global Signal
Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)(洛桑联邦理工学院);ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);Indian Institute of Technology Madras(马德拉斯理工学院);University of Cambridge(剑桥大学);Indian Institute of Technology Indore(印多尔理工学院);Jadavpur University(贾达普大学);The Open University of Israel(以色列开放大学);University of Groningen(格罗宁根大学);Université PSL(巴黎文理研究大学);Sorbonne Université(索邦大学);Université Paris Cité(巴黎西岱大学);Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院上海天文台)