Abstract
The large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the Universe is
luminous through its 21-cm emission. The goal of the Baryon Acoustic
Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations - BINGO radio telescope
is to detect Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) at radio frequencies through
21-cm Intensity Mapping (IM). The telescope will span the redshift range 0.127
$< z <$ 0.449 with an instantaneous field-of-view of $14.75^\circ \times
6.0^\circ$. In this work, we investigate different constructive and
operational scenarios of the instrument by generating sky maps as they should
be produced by the instrument. In doing this we use a set of end-to-end IM
mission simulations. The maps will additionally also be used to evaluate the
efficiency of a component separation method (GNILC). We have simulated the kind
of data that would be produced in a single-dish IM experiment like BINGO.
According to the results obtained we have optimized the focal plane design of
the telescope. In addition, the application of the GNILC method on simulated
data shows that it is feasible to extract the cosmological signal across a wide
range of multipoles and redshifts. The results are comparable with the standard
PCA method.
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