ECHO21: a tool for modelling global 21-cm signal from dark ages to reionization
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| author | Mittal, Shikhar Kulkarni, Girish Sims, Peter |
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| contents | We introduce a Python package called ECHO21 for modelling the global 21-cm signal from the dark ages through cosmic dawn to the end of reionization. Leveraging its analytical framework, ECHO21 generates a single model in $\mathcal{O}(1)\,$s, allowing a large number of signals to be generated efficiently by distributing models across multiple cores. Thus, it is ideal for performing astrophysical or cosmological inference from a given 21-cm dataset. We offer six astrophysical parameters that control the Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) emissivity, X-ray emissivity, emissivity of ionizing photons, and star formation rate. Beyond its efficiency some of the attractive and novel features in ECHO21 relative to previously published codes are inclusion of Ly$α$ heating, ability to vary the standard cosmological parameters as easily as the astrophysical parameters, and different models of star formation rate density (physically-motivated, a semi-empirical, and an empirically-motivated). With a number of 21-cm experiments soon to provide cosmic dawn 21-cm data, ECHO21 is a flexible and extensible new open-source package for making quick but sufficiently realistic astrophysical inferences. We make our code publicly available. |
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| spellingShingle | ECHO21: a tool for modelling global 21-cm signal from dark ages to reionization Mittal, Shikhar Kulkarni, Girish Sims, Peter Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics We introduce a Python package called ECHO21 for modelling the global 21-cm signal from the dark ages through cosmic dawn to the end of reionization. Leveraging its analytical framework, ECHO21 generates a single model in $\mathcal{O}(1)\,$s, allowing a large number of signals to be generated efficiently by distributing models across multiple cores. Thus, it is ideal for performing astrophysical or cosmological inference from a given 21-cm dataset. We offer six astrophysical parameters that control the Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) emissivity, X-ray emissivity, emissivity of ionizing photons, and star formation rate. Beyond its efficiency some of the attractive and novel features in ECHO21 relative to previously published codes are inclusion of Ly$α$ heating, ability to vary the standard cosmological parameters as easily as the astrophysical parameters, and different models of star formation rate density (physically-motivated, a semi-empirical, and an empirically-motivated). With a number of 21-cm experiments soon to provide cosmic dawn 21-cm data, ECHO21 is a flexible and extensible new open-source package for making quick but sufficiently realistic astrophysical inferences. We make our code publicly available. |
| title | ECHO21: a tool for modelling global 21-cm signal from dark ages to reionization |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11762 |