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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned radio interferometer of unprecedented scale that will revolutionize low-frequency radio astronomy when completed. In particular, one of its core science drivers is the systematic mapping of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-11 Nichole Barry , Gianni Bernardi , Bradley Greig , Nicholas Kern , Florent Mertens

The Square Kilometre Array will be a revolutionary instrument for the study of gas in the distant Universe. SKA1 will have sufficient sensitivity to detect and image atomic 21 cm HI in individual galaxies at significant cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-19 J. Wagg , E. Da Cunha , C. L. Carilli , F. Walter , M. Aravena , I. Heywood , J. Hodge , E. Murphy , D. Riechers , M. Sargent , R. Wang

Current and future generations of intensity mapping surveys promise dramatic improvements in our understanding of galaxy evolution and large-scale structure. An intensity map provides a census of the cumulative emission from all galaxies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Trevor M. Oxholm , Eric R. Switzer

The homogeneity scale, $R_{\rm H}$, offers a fundamental test of the Cosmological Principle, yet it has not yet been measured with 21cm intensity mapping surveys. A key limitation for such a measurement is the telescope beam, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Bruno B. Bizarria , Camila P. Novaes , Felipe Avila , Rahima Mokeddem , Helissa H. da Costa , Carlos A. Wuensche , Gabriel A. S. Silva

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) of emission from star-forming galaxies can be used to measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale as far back as the epoch of reionization. This provides a standard cosmic ruler to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 José Luis Bernal , Patrick C. Breysse , Ely D. Kovetz

HI intensity mapping is a promising technique to probe large-scale structure, traditionally analyzed via two-point statistics such as the angular power spectrum. This technique has proven very powerful but may miss key non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Pauline Gorbatchev , Jean-Luc Starck , Stefano Camera , Marta Spinelli

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is emerging as a powerful technique to map the cosmic large-scale structure and to probe cosmology over a wide range of redshifts and spatial scales. We perform Fisher forecasts to determine the optimal design…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Garrett K. Keating , Kirit S. Karkare , Abigail Crites , Shouvik Roy Choudhury

The mean and the scatter of the HI content of a dark-matter halo as a function of the halo mass are useful statistics that can be used to test models of structure and galaxy formation. We investigate the possibility of constraining this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-21 Benedetta Spina , Cristiano Porciani , Carlo Schimd

The line intensity mapping technique involves measuring the cumulative emission from specific spectral lines emitted by galaxies and intergalactic gas. This method provides a way to study the matter distribution and the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-30 Anirban Roy , Andrea Lapi

Low-frequency radio observations of neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionization will provide ~ 1000 quasi-independent source planes, each of precisely known redshift, if a resolution of ~1 arcminutes or better can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 R. Benton Metcalf , S. D. M. White

Intensity mapping has been attracting increasing interest as a way to study galaxy evolution and the large scale structure of the Universe. Instead of detecting individual galaxies, we measure the integrated emission from a volume of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 José Fonseca

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging observational method to study the large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution. LIM does not resolve individual sources but probes the fluctuations of integrated line emissions. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Kana Moriwaki , Nina Filippova , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

Intensity mapping -- the large-scale mapping of selected spectral lines without resolving individual sources -- is quickly emerging as an efficient way to conduct large cosmological surveys. Multiple surveys covering a variety of lines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hannah Fronenberg , Adrian Liu

We use the results of previous work building a halo model formalism for the distribution of neutral hydrogen, along with experimental parameters of future radio facilities, to place forecasts on astrophysical and cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

We introduce a new Bayesian HI spectral line fitting technique capable of obtaining spectroscopic redshifts for millions of galaxies in radio surveys with the Square Kilometere Array (SKA). This technique is especially well-suited to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-28 Ian Harrison , Michelle Lochner , Michael L. Brown

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is a growing technique that measures the integrated spectral-line emission from unresolved galaxies over a three-dimensional region of the Universe. Although LIM experiments ultimately aim to provide powerful…

An alternative to both the tomography technique and the power spectrum approach is to search for the 21cm forest, that is the 21cm absorption features against high-z radio loud sources caused by the intervening cold neutral intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-20 Benedetta Ciardi , Susumu Inoue , Katherine J. Mack , Yidong Xu , Gianni Bernardi

In this work we present updated forecasts on parameterised modifications of gravity that can capture deviations of the behaviour of cosmological density perturbations beyond $\Lambda$CDM. For these forecasts we adopt the SKA Observatory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-13 Santiago Casas , Isabella P. Carucci , Valeria Pettorino , Stefano Camera , Matteo Martinelli

Understanding the formation and evolution of the Universe is crucial for cosmological studies, and the line intensity mapping provides a powerful tool for this kind of study. We propose to make use of multipole moments of redshift-space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Asantha Cooray

Future Square Kilometre Array (SKA) surveys are expected to generate huge datasets of 21cm maps on cosmological scales from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). We assess the viability of exploiting machine learning techniques, namely,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Sultan Hassan , Sambatra Andrianomena , Caitlin Doughty