Bayesian noise wave calibration for 21-cm global experiments

Global 21 cm signal experiments : A designer ’ s guide

Bayesian Calibration of Expensive Multivariate Computer Experiments

This chapter is concered with how to calibrate a computer model to observational data when the model produces multivariate output and is temporally expensive to run. The significance of considering models with long run times is that they can only be run at a limited number of different inputs, ruling out a brute-force Monte Carlo approach. Consequently, all inference must be done with a limited...

Mapmaking for precision 21 cm cosmology

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How well can we measure and understand foregrounds with 21 cm experiments?

Before it becomes a sensitive probe of the Epoch of Reionization, the Dark Ages, and fundamental physics, 21 cm tomography must successfully contend with the issue of foreground contamination. Broadband foreground sources are expected to be roughly four orders of magnitude larger than any cosmological signals, so precise foreground models will be necessary. Such foreground models often contain ...

White Noise from Dark Matter: 21 cm Observations of Early Baryon Collapse

In concordance cosmology, dark matter density perturbations generated by inflation lead to nonlinear, virialized minihalos, into which baryons collapse at redshift z ∼ 20. We survey here novel baryon evolution produced by a modification of the power spectrum from white noise density perturbations at scales below k ∼ 10h Mpc (the smallest scales currently measured with the Lyman-α forest). Exoti...