2008

How accurately can 21 cm tomography constrain cosmology?

Mao, Yi, Tegmark, Max, McQuinn, Matthew et al.

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There is growing interest in using 3-dimensional neutral hydrogen mapping with the redshifted 21 cm line as a cosmological probe, as it has been argued to have a greater long-term potential than the cosmic microwave background.

However, its utility depends on many assumptions.
To aid experimental planning and design, we quantify how the precision with which cosmological parameters can be measured depends on a broad range of assumptions.
We cover assumptions related to modeling of the ionization power spectrum and associated nonlinearity, experimental specifications like array layout and noise, cosmological assumptions about reionization history and inter-galactic medium (IGM) evolution, and assumptions about astrophysical foregrounds.

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