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dc.contributor.authorWatkinson, C.A.
dc.contributor.authorTrott, Cathryn
dc.contributor.authorHothi, I.
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-19T07:37:42Z
dc.date.available2023-04-19T07:37:42Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationWatkinson, C.A. and Trott, C.M. and Hothi, I. 2021. The bispectrum and 21-cm foregrounds during the Epoch of Reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501 (1): pp. 367-382.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91568
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/mnras/staa3677
dc.description.abstract

Numerous studies have established the theoretical potential of the 21-cm bispectrum to boost our understanding of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). We take a first look at the impact of foregrounds (FGs) and instrumental effects on the 21-cm bispectrum and our ability to measure it. Unlike the power spectrum for which (in the absence of instrumental effects) there is a window clear of smooth-spectrum FGs in which it may be detectable, there is no such 'EoR window' for the bispectrum. For the triangle configurations and scales we consider, the EoR structures are completely swamped by those of the FGs, and the EoR + FG bispectrum is entirely dominated by that of the FGs. By applying a rectangular window function on the sky combined with a Blackman-Nuttall filter along the frequency axis, we find that spectral, or in our case scale, leakage (caused by FFTing non-periodic data) suppresses the FG contribution so that cross-terms of the EoR and FGs dominate. While difficult to interpret, these findings motivate future studies to investigate whether filtering can be used to extract information about the EoR from the 21-cm bispectrum. We also find that there is potential for instrumental effects to seriously corrupt the bispectrum. FG removal using GMCA (generalized morphological component analysis) is found to recover the EoR bispectrum to a reasonable level of accuracy for many configurations. Further studies are necessary to understand the error and/or bias associated with FG removal before the 21-cm bispectrum can be practically applied in analysis of future data.

dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherOXFORD UNIV PRESS
dc.relation.sponsoredbyhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT180100321
dc.relation.sponsoredbyhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE170100013
dc.subjectScience & Technology
dc.subjectPhysical Sciences
dc.subjectAstronomy & Astrophysics
dc.subjectmethods: statistical
dc.subjectintergalactic medium
dc.subjectdark ages
dc.subjectreionization
dc.subjectfirst stars
dc.subjectcosmology: theory
dc.subjectNEUTRAL HYDROGEN
dc.subjectNON-GAUSSIANITY
dc.subjectPOWER SPECTRUM
dc.subjectCOSMIC DAWN
dc.subjectSIGNAL
dc.subjectEMISSION
dc.subjectLIMITS
dc.subjectastro-ph.CO
dc.subjectastro-ph.CO
dc.titleThe bispectrum and 21-cm foregrounds during the Epoch of Reionization
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume501
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage367
dcterms.source.endPage382
dcterms.source.issn0035-8711
dcterms.source.titleMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
dc.date.updated2023-04-19T07:37:41Z
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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

curtin.departmentSchool of Elec Eng, Comp and Math Sci (EECMS)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Science and Engineering
curtin.contributor.orcidTrott, Cathryn [0000-0001-6324-1766]
curtin.contributor.researcheridTrott, Cathryn [B-5325-2013]
dcterms.source.eissn1365-2966
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridTrott, Cathryn [24438609500]
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