Square Kilometer Array Synergies for the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn
Anirban Chakraborty, Tirthankar R. Choudhury, Kanan K. Datta, Pratika Dayal, Jiten Dhandha, Samuel Gagnon-Hartman, Sambit K. Giri, Adelie Gorce, Caroline Heneka, Anne Hutter, Barun Maity, Suman Majumdar, Andrei Mesinger, Kana Moriwaki, Chandra Shekhar Murmu, Yuxiang Qin, Shintaro Yoshiura, Erik Zackrisson
astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
Submitted: 2026-06-29
Comments: Published in Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA II (AASKAII), 2026 (arXiv:2606.20366) Report-no:AASKAII/Chakraborty01
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
The gist: Synergies with other instruments will be essential in making, verifying, and interpreting a detection of the cosmic 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn (CD) with the
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Abstract
Synergies with other instruments will be essential in making, verifying, and interpreting a detection of the cosmic 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn (CD) with the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope. Such synergies can (i) provide prior information about galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the EoR/CD; (ii) pave the road to a first 21cm detection by mitigating foregrounds and systematics through cross-correlations; and (iii) give complimentary physical insights into the galaxy -- IGM connection. Here we review the current state of synergies and discuss what observations will best compliment SKA-low EoR/CD observations.
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