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The BINGO radiotelescope will observe hydrogen distribution using Intensity Mapping (IM) to analyze the Dark Energy paradigm through Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. The target signal is contaminated by unwanted signals and instrumental noise,…

The bispectrum is a 3-point statistic with the potential to provide additional information beyond power spectra analyses of survey datasets. Radio telescopes which broadly survey the 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) are a promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Steven Cunnington , Catherine Watkinson , Alkistis Pourtsidou

The 21 cm intensity mapping (IM) technique provides us with an efficient way to observe the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS). From the LSS data, one can use the baryon acoustic oscillation and redshift space distortion to trace the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Peng-Ju Wu , Yichao Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

One of the key steps in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis is component separation to recover the CMB signal from multi-frequency observations contaminated by foreground emissions. Needlet Internal Linear Combination (NILC) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Debabrata Adak

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging cosmological technique that traces large-scale structure through the integrated spectral-line emission of unresolved sources. Reconstructing unbiased sky maps requires careful joint treatment of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Zheng Zhang , Philip Bull , Mario G. Santos , Ainulnabilah Nasirudin

The cross-correlation of optical galaxies with the neutral hydrogen (HI) radiation intensity can enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the HI intensity measurement. In this paper, we investigate the cross-correlation of the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Furen Deng , Yan Gong , Yougang Wang , Shuting Dong , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen

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

The 21cm line of neutral hydrogen (HI) opens a new avenue in our exploration of the structure and evolution of the Universe. It provides complementary data to the current large-scale structure observations with different systematics, and…

The 21 cm intensity mapping provides a promising probe of the large-scale structure. Astrophysical foregrounds, as the main source of contamination to the cosmological 21 cm signal, persist in a wedge-like region of Fourier space due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kaifeng Yu , Xin Wang

We discuss the detectability of large-scale HI intensity fluctuations using the FAST telescope. We present forecasts for the accuracy of measuring the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and constraining the properties of dark energy. The FAST…

It is shown that 21 cm intensity mapping could be used in the near term to make cosmologically useful measurements. Large scale structure could be detected using existing radio telescopes, or using prototypes for dedicated redshift survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-13 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Patrick McDonald , Ue-Li Pen

HI intensity mapping (IM) is an exciting new probe that could revolutionize the future of cosmology. However, the relative faintness of the HI signal when compared to foregrounds of astrophysical or terrestrial origin will make HI IM…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-18 S. E. Harper

We present a method for extracting the expected cosmological 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization, taking into account contaminating radiations and random instrumental noise. The method is based on the maximum a-posteriori…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-21 Liron Gleser , Adi Nusser , Andrew J. Benson

Residual foreground contamination in thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) Compton-$y$ parameter maps ($y$-maps) arises mainly from Galactic emissions -- thermal dust and synchrotron radiation -- on large angular scales, and from cosmic infrared…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Jyothis Chandran , Mathieu Remazeilles , R. B. Barreiro

We present a detection of correlated clustering between MeerKAT radio intensity maps and galaxies from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We find a $7.7\sigma$ detection of the cross-correlation power spectrum, the amplitude of which is…

Upcoming 21-cm intensity surveys will use the hyperfine transition in emission to map out neutral hydrogen in large volumes of the universe. Unfortunately, large spatial scales are completely contaminated with spectrally smooth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Chirag Modi , Martin White , Anze Slosar , Emanuele Castorina

We present an HI 21cm absorption study of a sample of 26 radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) at $0.25 < z < 0.4$ carried out with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. Our aim was to study the rate of incidence of HI in various classes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Suma Murthy , Raffaella Morganti , Tom Oosterloo , Filippo M. Maccagni

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique for probing the aggregate emission of a spectral line from all sources, without requiring individual detections. Through the wavelength-redshift relation, one can map the line-of-sight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Yun-Ting Cheng , Brandon S. Hensley , Thomas S. -Y. Lai

21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionisation is gravitationally lensed by material at all lower redshifts. Low-frequency radio observations of this emission can be used to reconstruct the projected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Stefan Hilbert , R. Benton Metcalf , S. D. M. White

Line intensity mapping is a superb tool to study the collective radiation from early galaxies. However, the method is hampered by the presence of strong foregrounds, mostly produced by low-redshift interloping lines. We present here a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Paolo Comaschi , Andrea Ferrara