Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-02-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
MNRAS submitted
Scientific paper
We explore the ability of observations of the global brightness temperature of the 21-cm signal to constrain the reionization history and the properties of the ionizing sources. In order to describe the reionization signal, we employ either a commonly-used toy model or a structure formation model that parameterizes the properties of the ionizing sources. If the structure formation model captures the actual evolution of the reionization signal, then detecting the signal is somewhat easier than it would be for the toy model; using the toy model in this case also leads to systematic errors in reconstructing the reionization history, though a sufficiently sensitive experiment should be able to distinguish between the two models. We show that under optimistic assumptions regarding systematic noise and foreground removal, one-year observations of the global 21-cm spectrum should be able to detect a wide range of realistic models and measure the main features of the reionization history while constraining the key properties of the ionizing sources.
Barkana Rennan
Morandi Andrea
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