Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-10-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to ApJ. 9 pages including 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/528675
Preliminary results are presented from a simple, single-antenna experiment designed to measure the all-sky radio spectrum between 100 and 200 MHz. The system used an internal comparison-switching scheme to reduce non-smooth instrumental contaminants in the measured spectrum to 75 mK. From the observations, we place an initial upper limit of 450 mK on the relative brightness temperature of the redshifted 21 cm contribution to the spectrum due to neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the epoch of reionization, assuming a rapid transition to a fully ionized IGM at a redshift of 8. With refinement, this technique should be able to distinguish between slow and fast reionization scenarios. To constrain the duration of reionization to dz > 2, the systematic residuals in the measured spectrum must be reduced to 3 mK.
Bowman David J.
Hewitt Jacqueline N.
Rogers Alan E. E.
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