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| Name: Ravi Subrahmanyan Affiliation: RRI, Bengaluru Conference ID: ASI2019_001 Title : Towards detecting radio signatures of cosmic dawn Authors and Co-Authors : Ravi Subrahmanyan, RRI, Bengaluru Abstract Type : Invited Abstract Category : Plenary Abstract : As first light from the first stars transforms the universe from the dark ages into cosmic dawn, the history may be traced in redshifted 21-cm from neutral hydrogen in the gas. Efforts to build precision radiometers over the 40-200 MHz band to detect this faint signal are beginning to yield results of significance to the theory, thus constraining the starlight of the earliest galaxies. I will review the field and discuss the problems and progress. |