The BINGO Project IV: Simulations for mission performance assessment and preliminary component separation steps

Understand

The large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the Universe is luminous through its 21 cm emission.

• The goal of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations -- BINGO -- radio telescope is to detect baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) at radio frequencies through 21 cm intensity mapping (IM).
• The telescope will span the redshift range 0.127 $< z <$ 0.449 with an instantaneous field-of-view of $14.75^{\circ} \times 6.0^{\circ}$.
• In this work we investigate different constructive and operational scenarios of the instrument by generating sky maps as they would be produced by the instrument.