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Cross-correlating neutral hydrogen (HI) 21cm intensity mapping with galaxy surveys provides an effective probe of astrophysical and cosmological information. This work presents a cross-correlation analysis between MeerKAT single-dish HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Yu-Er Jiang , Yan Gong , Qi Xiong , Wenxiang Pei , Yun Liu , Furen Deng , Zi-yan Yuwen , Meng Zhang , Xingchen Zhou , Xuelei Chen , Yin-Zhe Ma , Qi Guo , Bin Yue

The substantial decrease in star formation density from z=1 to the present day is curious given the relatively constant neutral gas density over the same epoch. Future radio astronomy facilities, including the SKA and pathfinder telescopes,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Natasha Maddox , Matt J. Jarvis , Tom Oosterloo

We show how precision lensing measurements can be obtained through the lensing magnification effect in high redshift 21cm emission from galaxies. Normally, cosmic magnification measurements have been seriously complicated by galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pengjie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen

Context. Explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the fundamental challenges in physics today. Cosmography provides information about the evolution of the universe derived from measured distances, assuming only that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Marek Demianski , Ester Piedipalumbo , Disha Sawant , Lorenzo Amati

We explore the information content of 21cm intensity maps in redshift space using the 1-loop Effective Field Theory power spectrum model and the bispectrum at tree level. The 21cm signal contains signatures of dark matter, dark energy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 Liantsoa F. Randrianjanahary , Dionysios Karagiannis , Roy Maartens

The measurement of the large scale distribution of neutral hydrogen in the late Universe, obtained with radio telescopes through the hydrogen 21cm line emission, has the potential to become a key cosmological probe in the upcoming years. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Maria Berti , Marta Spinelli , Matteo Viel

By opening up new avenues to statistically constrain astrophysics and cosmology with large-scale structure observations, the line intensity mapping (LIM) technique calls for novel tools for efficient forward modeling and inference. Implicit…

The first direct measurements of the HI intensity mapping power spectrum were recently made using the MeerKAT telescope. These measurements are on nonlinear scales, at redshifts 0.32 and 0.44. We develop a formalism for modelling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Roy Maartens , Obinna Umeh , Stefano Camera

Line intensity mapping provides a statistical approach to tracing the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. We apply the HI intensity mapping technique to interferometric data from the MeerKAT International GHz-Tiered…

We report the first results of a programme aimed at studying the properties of high redshift galaxies with on-going massive and dominant episodes of star formation (HII galaxies). We use the $L(\mathrm{H}\beta) - \sigma$ distance estimator…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roberto Terlevich , Elena Terlevich , Jorge Melnick , Ricardo Chávez , Manolis Plionis , Fabio Bresolin , Spyros Basilakos

The 21cm emission line from neutral hydrogen (HI) contained within galaxies provides a way to make accurate spectroscopic redshift determinations in the radio part of the spectrum. Large radio arrays such as SKA-MID are coming online that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Ainulnabilah Nasirudin , Philip Bull , Isabelle Ye

The SKA and its pathfinders will enable studies of HI emission at higher redshifts than ever before. In moving beyond the local Universe, this will require the use of cosmologically appropriate formulae that have traditionally been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Martin Meyer , Aaron Robotham , Danail Obreschkow , Tobias Westmeier , Alan Duffy , Lister Staveley-Smith

Originally proposed as a cosmological probe of the large-scale structure, line intensity mapping (LIM) also offers a unique window into the astrophysics of galaxy evolution. Adding to the astrophysical explorations of LIM technique that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Guochao Sun

Breakthroughs in physics and astrophysics are often driven by technological advances, with the recent detection of gravitational waves being one such example. This white paper focuses upon how improved astrometric and spectroscopic…

Line-intensity mapping (LIM or IM) is an emerging field of observational work, with strong potential to fit into a larger effort to probe large-scale structure and small-scale astrophysical phenomena using multiple complementary tracers.…

Precise cosmological measurements are essential for understanding the evolution of the universe and the nature of dark energy. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Jun-Da Pan , Peng-Ju Wu , Guo-Hong Du , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

In the pursuit of understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe, the synergy between complementary cosmological surveys has proven to be a powerful tool. Using multiple tracers of the large-scale structure can significantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Simthembile Dlamini , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

he upcoming new perspective of the high redshift Universe in the 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen opens possibilities to explore topics of spiral disk evolution, hitherto reserved for the optical regime. The growth of spiral gas disks over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-06 B. W. Holwerda , W. J. G. de Blok , A. Bouchard , S-L. Blyth , K. van der Heyden , N. Prizkal

Magnetic fields play an important role in shaping the structure and evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies, but the details of this relationship remain unclear. With SKA1, the 3D structure of galactic magnetic fields and its…

We provide perturbation theory predictions for the HI intensity mapping power spectrum multipoles using the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure (EFTofLSS), which should allow us to constrain cosmological parameters exploiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-02 Alkistis Pourtsidou