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21 cm intensity mapping (HI IM) can efficiently map large cosmic volumes with good redshift resolution, but systematics and foreground contamination pose major challenges for extracting accurate cosmological information. Cross-correlation…

In modern cosmology, an important task is investigating whether there exists a signal of modified gravity in the universe. Due to the limited resolutions and sensitivities of facilities, current observations can not detect any signal of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-20 Deng Wang

We use full sky simulations, including the effects of foreground contamination and removal, to explore multi-tracer synergies between a SKA-like 21cm intensity mapping survey and a LSST-like photometric galaxy redshift survey. In particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Amadeus Witzemann , David Alonso , José Fonseca , Mario G. Santos

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a rapidly emerging technique for constraining cosmology and galaxy formation using multi-frequency, low angular resolution maps. Many LIM applications crucially rely on cross-correlations of two line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Emmanuel Schaan , Martin White

Intensity mapping (IM) with neutral hydrogen is a promising avenue to probe the large scale structure of the Universe. In this paper, we demonstrate that using the 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope as a connected interferometer, it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Sourabh Paul , Mario G. Santos , Junaid Townsend , Matt J. Jarvis , Natasha Maddox , Jordan D. Collier , Bradley S. Frank , Russ Taylor

We investigate the potential of the Square Kilometer Array Telescope (SKA) to constrain the sound speed of dark energy. The Integrated Sachs Wolfe (ISW) effect results in a significant power spectrum signal when CMB temperature anisotropies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Torres-Rodriguez , C. M. Cress

We investigate the feasibility of measuring the effects of peculiar velocities in large-scale structure using the dipole of the redshift-space cross-correlation function. We combine number counts of galaxies with brightness-temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-01 Alex Hall , Camille Bonvin

Understanding properties of the first sources in the Universe using the redshifted \HI ~21-cm signal is one of the major aims of present and upcoming low-frequency experiments. We investigate the possibility of imaging the redshifted 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Raghunath Ghara , T. Roy Choudhury , Kanan K. Datta , Samir Choudhuri

Line intensity mapping offers a new avenue for constraining cosmological parameters in the high redshift Universe. However measurements of the growth of structure, a sensitive probe of gravity, are affected by a well known degeneracy with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-04 Emanuele Castorina , Martin White

\textsc{Hi} intensity mapping will provide maps of the large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen (\textsc{Hi}) in the universe. These are prime candidates to be used to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity using the Large Scale Structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 José Fonseca , Michele Liguori

We present a systematic study of the intensity mapping technique using updated models for the different emission lines from galaxies and identify which ones are more promising for cosmological studies of the post reionization epoch. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-25 José Fonseca , Marta B. Silva , Mário G. Santos , Asantha Cooray

Strong gravitational lensing provides some of the deepest views of the Universe, enabling studies of high-redshift galaxies only possible with next-generation facilities without the lensing phenomenon. To date, 21 cm radio emission from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 R. P. Deane , D. Obreschkow , I. Heywood

Intensity mapping of 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen promises to be a powerful probe of large-scale structure in the post-reionisation epoch. However, HI intensity mapping (IM) experiments will suffer the loss of long-wavelength…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Kavilan Moodley , Warren Naidoo , Heather Prince , Aurelie Penin

The late-time integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) signal in the CMB temperature anisotropies is an important probe of dark energy when it can be detected by cross-correlation with large-scale structure surveys. Because of their huge sky area,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-12 Mario Ballardini , Roy Maartens

Upcoming 21cm surveys with the SKA1-LOW telescope will enable imaging of the neutral hydrogen distribution on cosmological scales in the early Universe. These surveys are expected to generate huge imaging datasets that will encode more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Tumelo Mangena , Sultan Hassan , Mario G. Santos

Understanding the nature of dark energy is one of the most outstanding problems in cosmology at present. In last twenty years, cosmological observations related to SNIa, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 Bikash R. Dinda , Anjan A Sen , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

21 cm intensity mapping (IM) has the potential to be a strong and unique probe of cosmology from redshift of order unity to redshift potentially as high as 30. For post-reionization 21 cm observations, the signal is modulated by the thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Heyang Long , Catalina Morales-Gutiérrez , Paulo Montero-Camacho , Christopher M. Hirata

The SKA will be a unique instrument with which to study the evolution of the gas content of galaxies. A proposed deep (~8 Msec) 'pencil-beam' survey is simulated using recently updated specifications for SKA sensitivity and survey speed.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Lister Staveley-Smith

The large-scale structure of the Universe supplies crucial information about the physical processes at play at early times. Unresolved maps of the intensity of 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen HI at redshifts z~1-5 are the best hope of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-28 Stefano Camera , Mario G. Santos , Pedro G. Ferreira , Luis Ferramacho

Imaging surveys of galaxies will have a high number density and angular resolution yet a poor redshift precision. Intensity maps of neutral hydrogen (HI) will have accurate redshift resolution yet will not resolve individual sources. Using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 David Alonso , Pedro G. Ferreira , Matt J. Jarvis , Kavilan Moodley