Illuminating the darkness with precision maps of neutral hydrogen across cosmic time

Project Information

MapItAll

Grant agreement ID: 948764

DOI

10.3030/948764

EC signature date 10 August 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 30 November 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 665 802,00

EU contribution

€ 1 665 802,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (35)

Measurements of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron spectral index and curvature from MeerKLASS pilot data

Author(s): Melis O. Irfan; Philip Bull; Mario G. Santos; Jingying Wang; Keith Grainge; Yichao Li; Isabella P. Carucci; Marta Spinelli; Steven Cunnington
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 509, 2022, Page(s) 4923–4939, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3346

Bayesian jackknife tests with a small number of subsets: application to HERA 21 cm power spectrum upper limits

Author(s): Michael J Wilensky; Fraser Kennedy; Philip Bull; Joshua S Dillon; Zara Abdurashidova; Tyrone Adams; James E Aguirre; Paul Alexander; Zaki S Ali; Rushelle Baartman; Yanga Balfour; Adam P Beardsley; Gianni Bernardi; Tashalee S Billings; Judd D Bowman; Richard F Bradley; Jacob Burba; Steven Carey; Chris L Carilli; Carina Cheng; David R DeBoer; Eloy de Lera Acedo; Matt Dexter; Nico Eksteen; John Ely
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3484

H <scp>i</scp> intensity mapping with MeerKAT: power spectrum detection in cross-correlation with WiggleZ galaxies

Author(s): Steven Cunnington; Yichao Li; Mario G Santos; Jingying Wang; Isabella P Carucci; Melis O Irfan; Alkistis Pourtsidou; Marta Spinelli; Laura Wolz; Paula S Soares; Chris Blake; Philip Bull; Brandon Engelbrecht; José Fonseca; Keith Grainge; Yin-Zhe Ma
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 518, 2022, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3060

A Real Time Processing System for Big Data in Astronomy: Applications to HERA

Author(s): P. La Plante; P. La Plante; Peter K. G. Williams; Peter K. G. Williams; Matthew Kolopanis; Joshua S. Dillon; Adam P. Beardsley; Adam P. Beardsley; Nicholas S. Kern; Nicholas S. Kern; M. Wilensky; Zaki S. Ali; Zara Abdurashidova; James E. Aguirre; Paul Alexander; Yanga Balfour; Gianni Bernardi; Gianni Bernardi; Tashalee S. Billings; Judd D. Bowman; Richard F. Bradley; Philip Bull; Jacob Burba; S. H
Published in: Astronomy and Computing, Issue 36, 2021, ISSN 2213-1337
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2021.100489

<tt>matvis</tt>: a matrix-based visibility simulator for fast forward modelling of many-element 21 cm arrays

Author(s): Piyanat Kittiwisit, Steven G Murray, Hugh Garsden, Philip Bull, Michael J Wilensky, Christopher Cain, Aaron R Parsons, Jackson Sipple, Tyrone Adams, James E Aguirre, Rushelle Baartman, Adam P Beardsley, Lindsay M Berkhout, Gianni Bernardi, Tashalee S Billings, Judd D Bowman, Richard F Bradley, Jacob Burba, Steven Carey, Chris L Carilli, Kai-Feng Chen, Samir Choudhuri, Tyler Cox, David R DeBoer, El
Published in: RAS Techniques and Instruments, Issue 4, 2025, Page(s) rzaf001, ISSN 2752-8200
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/rasti/rzaf001

Spin-based removal of instrumental systematics in 21cm intensity mapping surveys

Author(s): Nialh McCallum; Daniel Thomas; Philip Bull; Philip Bull; Michael L. Brown
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 508, 2021, Page(s) 5556–5577, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2811

All-sky modelling requirements for Bayesian 21 cm power spectrum estimation with <scp>bayeseor</scp>

Author(s): Jacob Burba; Peter H Sims; Jonathan C Pober
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad401

High-dimensional inference of radio interferometer beam patterns I: parametric model of the HERA beams

Author(s): Michael J Wilensky, Jacob Burba, Philip Bull, Hugh Garsden, Katrine A Glasscock, Nicolas Fagnoni, Eloy de Lera Acedo, David R DeBoer, Nima Razavi-Ghods
Published in: RAS Techniques and Instruments, Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) 400-414, ISSN 2752-8200
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/rasti/rzae029

Why and When to Expect Gaussian Error Distributions in Epoch of Reionization 21-cm Power Spectrum Measurements

Author(s): Michael J Wilensky; Jordan Brown; Bryna J Hazelton
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad863

BayesEoR: Bayesian 21-cm Power Spectrum Estimation fromInterferometric Visibilities

Author(s): Peter H. Sims, Jacob Burba, Jonathan C. Pober
Published in: Journal of Open Source Software, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) 6667, ISSN 2475-9066
Publisher: The Open Journal
DOI: 10.21105/joss.06667

Impacts and Statistical Mitigation of Missing Data on the 21 cm Power Spectrum: A Case Study with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Author(s): Kai-Feng Chen, Michael J. Wilensky, Adrian Liu, Joshua S. Dillon, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Tyrone Adams, James E. Aguirre, Rushelle Baartman, Adam P. Beardsley, Lindsay M. Berkhout, Gianni Bernardi, Tashalee S. Billings, Judd D. Bowman, Philip Bull, Jacob Burba, Ruby Byrne, Steven Carey, Samir Choudhuri, Tyler Cox, David. R. DeBoer, Matt Dexter, Nico Eksteen, John Ely, Aaron Ewall-Wice, Steven R. Fur
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 979, 2025, Page(s) 191, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b91

Direct Optimal Mapping for 21 cm Cosmology: A Demonstration with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Author(s): Zhilei Xu, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Kai-Feng Chen, Honggeun Kim, Joshua S. Dillon, Nicholas S. Kern, Miguel F. Morales, Bryna J. Hazelton, Ruby Byrne, Nicolas Fagnoni, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Zara Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams, James E. Aguirre, Paul Alexander, Zaki S. Ali, Rushelle Baartman, Yanga Balfour, Adam P. Beardsley, Gianni Bernardi, Tashalee S. Billings, Judd D. Bowman, Richard F. Bradley, Philip
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 938, 2022, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac9053

Statistical recovery of the BAO scale from multipoles of the beam-convolved 21 cm correlation function

Author(s): Fraser Kennedy; Philip Bull; Philip Bull
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 506, 2021, Page(s) 2638–2658, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1814

Evidence of Ultrafaint Radio Frequency Interference in Deep 21 cm Epoch of Reionization Power Spectra with the Murchison Wide-field Array

Author(s): Michael J. Wilensky; Miguel F. Morales; Bryna J. Hazelton; Pyxie L. Star; Nichole Barry; Ruby Byrne; C. H. Jordan; Daniel C. Jacobs; Jonathan C. Pober; C. M. Trott
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 78, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acffbd

Bayesian estimation of cross-coupling and reflection systematics in 21cm array visibility data

Author(s): Geoff G Murphy, Philip Bull, Mario G Santos, Zara Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams, James E Aguirre, Paul Alexander, Zaki S Ali, Rushelle Baartman, Yanga Balfour, Adam P Beardsley, Gianni Bernardi, Tashalee S Billings, Judd D Bowman, Richard F Bradley, Jacob Burba, Christopher Cain, Steven Carey, Chris L Carilli, Carina Cheng, David R DeBoer, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Matt Dexter, Joshua S Dillon, Nico Ekste
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 534, 2024, Page(s) 2653-2673, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2242

Exploring the consequences of chromatic data excision in 21-cm Epoch of Reionization power spectrum observations

Author(s): M. Wilensky; M. Wilensky; Bryna J. Hazelton; Miguel F. Morales
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 510, 2022, Page(s) 5023–5034, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3456

Characterizing line-of-sight variability of polarized dust emission with future CMB experiments

Author(s): Lisa McBride; Philip Bull; Brandon S Hensley
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 519, 2023, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3754

Methods of Error Estimation for Delay Power Spectra in 21 cm Cosmology

Author(s): Jianrong Tan; Jianrong Tan; Adrian Liu; Nicholas S. Kern; Zara Abdurashidova; James E. Aguirre; Paul Alexander; Zaki S. Ali; Yanga Balfour; Adam P. Beardsley; Gianni Bernardi; Gianni Bernardi; Tashalee S. Billings; Judd D. Bowman; Richard F. Bradley; Philip Bull; Jacob Burba; Steven Carey; Chris Carilli; Carina Cheng; David DeBoer; Matt Dexter; Eloy de Lera Acedo; Joshua S. Dillon; John Ely; Aaron
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 255, 2021, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ac0533

Improved Constraints on the 21 cm EoR Power Spectrum and the X-Ray Heating of the IGM with HERA Phase I Observations

Author(s): The HERA Collaboration: Zara Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams, James E. Aguirre, Paul Alexander, Zaki S. Ali, Rushelle Baartman, Yanga Balfour, Rennan Barkana, Adam P. Beardsley, Gianni Bernardi, Tashalee S. Billings, Judd D. Bowman, Richard F. Bradley, Daniela Breitman, Philip Bull, Jacob Burba, Steve Carey, Chris L. Carilli, Carina Cheng, Samir Choudhuri, David R. DeBoer, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Matt Dex
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 945, 2023, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acaf50

Bayesian evidence for flux scale errors in Galactic synchrotron maps

Author(s): Michael J Wilensky, Melis O Irfan, Philip Bull
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 539, 2025, Page(s) 3122-3137, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf668

Validation of the HERA Phase i Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Power Spectrum Software Pipeline

Author(s): James E. Aguirre; Steven G. Murray; Robert Pascua; Zachary E. Martinot; Jacob Burba; Joshua S. Dillon; Daniel C. Jacobs; Nicholas S. Kern; Piyanat Kittiwisit; Matthew Kolopanis; Adam Lanman; Adrian Liu; Lily Whitler; Zara Abdurashidova; Paul Alexander; Zaki S. Ali; Yanga Balfour; Adam P. Beardsley; Gianni Bernardi; Tashalee S. Billings; Judd D. Bowman; Richard F. Bradley; Philip Bull; Steve Carey;
Published in: Astrophysical Journal, Issue 924, 2022, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac32cd

Mitigating the effect of 1/<i>f</i> noise on the detection of the <scp>H i</scp> intensity mapping power spectrum from single-dish measurements

Author(s): Melis O Irfan; Yichao Li; Mario G Santos; Philip Bull; Junhua Gu; Steven Cunnington; Keith Grainge; Jingying Wang
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 4717–4729, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: OUP
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3457

Disentangling the anisotropic radio sky: Fisher forecasts for 21 cm arrays

Author(s): Zheng Zhang, Philip Bull, Katrine A Glasscock
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 530, 2024, Page(s) 3412-3421, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1070

Sensitivity of Bayesian 21 cm power spectrum estimation to foreground model errors

Author(s): Jacob Burba, Philip Bull, Michael J Wilensky, Fraser Kennedy, Hugh Garsden, Katrine A Glasscock
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 535, 2024, Page(s) 793-806, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2334

Statistical estimation of full-sky radio maps from 21 cm array visibility data using Gaussian constrained realizations

Author(s): Katrine A Glasscock, Philip Bull, Jacob Burba, Hugh Garsden, Michael J Wilensky
Published in: RAS Techniques and Instruments, Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) 607-624, ISSN 2752-8200
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/rasti/rzae041

A demonstration of the effect of fringe-rate filtering in the hydrogen epoch of reionization array delay power spectrum pipeline

Author(s): Hugh Garsden, Philip Bull, Michael J Wilensky, Zuhra Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams, James E Aguirre, Paul Alexander, Zaki S Ali, Rushelle Baartman, Yanga Balfour, Adam P Beardsley, Lindsay M Berkhout, Gianni Bernardi, Tashalee S Billings, Judd D Bowman, Richard F Bradley, Jacob Burba, Steven Carey, Chris L Carilli, Kai-Feng Chen, Carina Cheng, Samir Choudhuri, David R DeBoer, Eloy de Lera Acedo, M
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 535, 2024, Page(s) 3218-3238, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2541

Impact of instrument and data characteristics in the interferometric reconstruction of the 21 cm power spectrum

Author(s): Adélie Gorce, Samskruthi Ganjam, Adrian Liu, Steven G Murray, Zara Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams, James E Aguirre, Paul Alexander, Zaki S Ali, Rushelle Baartman, Yanga Balfour, Adam P Beardsley, Gianni Bernardi, Tashalee S Billings, Judd D Bowman, Richard F Bradley, Philip Bull, Jacob Burba, Steven Carey, Chris L Carilli, Carina Cheng, David R DeBoer, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Matt Dexter, Joshua S Dillo
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 520, 2023, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad090

Statistical Recovery of 21 cm Visibilities and Their Power Spectra with Gaussian-constrained Realizations and Gibbs Sampling

Author(s): Fraser Kennedy, Philip Bull, Michael J. Wilensky, Jacob Burba, Samir Choudhuri
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Issue 266, 2023, ISSN 1538-4365
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/acc324

Modes of the Dark Ages 21 cm field accessible to a lunar radio interferometer

Author(s): Philip Bull, Caroline Guandalin, Chris Addis
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 382, 2024, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2023.0072

Direct Optimal Mapping Image Power Spectrum and its Window Functions

Author(s): Zhilei Xu, Honggeun Kim, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Kai-Feng Chen, Nicholas S. Kern, Eleanor Rath, Ruby Byrne, Adélie Gorce, Robert Pascua, Zachary E. Martinot, Joshua S. Dillon, Bryna J. Hazelton, Adrian Liu, Miguel F. Morales, Zara Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams, James E. Aguirre, Paul Alexander, Zaki S. Ali, Rushelle Baartman, Yanga Balfour, Adam P. Beardsley, Gianni Bernardi, Tashalee S. Billings, Ju
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 971, 2024, Page(s) 16, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad528c

First Results from HERA Phase I: Upper Limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Power Spectrum

Author(s): Zara Abdurashidova, James E. Aguirre, Paul Alexander, Zaki S. Ali, Yanga Balfour, Adam P. Beardsley, Gianni Bernardi, Tashalee S. Billings, Judd D. Bowman, Richard F. Bradley, Philip Bull, Jacob Burba, Steve Carey, Chris L. Carilli, Carina Cheng, David R. DeBoer, Matt Dexter, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Taylor Dibblee-Barkman, Joshua S. Dillon, John Ely, Aaron Ewall-Wice, Nicolas Fagnoni, Randall Fritz, S
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 925, 2022, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac1c78

The foreground transfer function for H i intensity mapping signal reconstruction: MeerKLASS and precision cosmology applications

Author(s): Steven Cunnington, Laura Wolz, Philip Bull, Isabella P Carucci, Keith Grainge, Melis O Irfan, Yichao Li, Alkistis Pourtsidou, Mario G Santos, Marta Spinelli, Jingying Wang
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 523, 2023, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1567

Cleaning foregrounds from single-dish 21 cm intensity maps with Kernel principal component analysis

Author(s): Melis O. Irfan; Melis O. Irfan; Philip Bull; Philip Bull
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 508, 2021, Page(s) 3551–3568, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2855

MeerKLASS L-band deep-field intensity maps: entering the H <scp>i</scp> dominated regime

Author(s): null null, Suman Chatterjee, Karin Fornazier, Tamirat Gogo, Wenkai Hu, Piyanat Kittiwisit, Sifiso Mahlalela, Matilde Barberi-Squarotti, José L Bernal, Philip Bull, Stefano Camera, Isabella P Carucci, Zhaoting Chen, Steven Cunnington, Brandon N Engelbrecht, José Fonseca, Keith Grainge, Melis O Irfan, Yichao Li, Aishrila Mazumder, Sourabh Paul, Alkistis Pourtsidou, Mario G Santos, Marta Spinelli,
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 537, 2025, Page(s) 3632-3661, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf195

Radio frequency interference from radio navigation satellite systems: simulations and comparison to MeerKAT single-dish data

Author(s): Brandon N Engelbrecht, Mario G Santos, José Fonseca, Yichao Li, Jingying Wang, Melis O Irfan, Stuart E Harper, Keith Grainge, Philip Bull, Isabella P Carucci, Steven Cunnington, Alkistis Pourtsidou, Marta Spinelli, Laura Wolz
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 536, 2024, Page(s) 1035-1055, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2649