An MCMC approach to extracting the global 21-cm signal during the cosmic dawn from sky-averaged radio observations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 419, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1070-1084

  Harker, Geraint J A ^a,b   Pritchard, Jonathan R ^c   Burns, Jack O ^a,b   Bowman, Judd D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Diffuse radiation; Methods: statistical; Radio lines: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 83855162798     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19766.x     Document Type: Article

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