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Possibility of Precise Measurement of the Cosmological Power Spectrum with a Dedicated Survey of 21 cm Emission after Reionization

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2008-04-22

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.161301

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Loeb, Abraham, and J. Stuart B. Wyithe. 2008. “Possibility of Precise Measurement of the Cosmological Power Spectrum with a Dedicated Survey of 21 Cm Emission after Reionization.” Physical Review Letters 100 (16). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.100.161301.

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Measurements of the 21 cm line emission by residual cosmic hydrogen after reionization can be used to trace the power spectrum of density perturbations through a significant fraction of the observable volume of the Universe. We show that a dedicated 21 cm observatory could probe a number of independent modes that is 2 orders of magnitude larger than currently available, and enable a cosmic-variance limited detection of the signature of a neutrino mass similar to 0.05 eV. The evolution of the linear growth factor with redshift could also constrain exotic theories of gravity or dark energy to an unprecedented precision.

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