| Precise if your presentation is oral or a poster : | Oral |
| Title of your presentation : | Detecting the Rise and Fall of 21 cm Fluctuations |
| Abstract |
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I will describe theoretical models of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). I will then forecast the sensitivity with which first generation 21 cm surveys, such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), can measure the 21 cm power spectrum. The MWA will be sensitive to roughly a decade in scale, with foreground contamination precluding measurements on large scales, and thermal detector noise limiting the small scale sensitivity. This amounts primarily to constraints on the slope and amplitude of the 21 cm power spectrum on the scales probed. Nonetheless, I will show that the redshift evolution in these quantities can yield important information about reionization. Finally, I will discuss novel approaches for analyzing the highly non-Gaussian 21 cm signal during reionization. |
