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This paper introduces the Hidden Valley simulations, a set of trillion-particle N-body simulations in gigaparsec volumes aimed at intensity mapping science. We present details of the simulations and their convergence, then specialize to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-19 Chirag Modi , Emanuele Castorina , Yu Feng , Martin White

The study of molecular gas is crucial for understanding star formation, feedback, and the broader ecosystem of a galaxy as a whole. However, we have limited understanding of its physics and distribution in all but the nearest galaxies. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-18 Patrick C. Breysse , Mubdi Rahman

Neutral hydrogen (HI) will soon be the dark matter tracer observed over the largest volumes of Universe thanks to the 21 cm intensity mapping technique. To unveil cosmological information it is indispensable to understand the HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Aurélie Pénin , Obinna Umeh , Mario Santos

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

We present a comprehensive set of forecasts for the cross-correlation signal between 21cm intensity mapping and galaxy redshift surveys. We focus on the data sets that will be provided by the SKAO for the 21cm signal, DESI and Euclid for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-10 Maria Berti , Marta Spinelli , Matteo Viel

Intensity mapping is a promising technique for surveying the large scale structure of our Universe from $z=0$ to $z \sim 150$, using the brightness temperature field of spectral lines to directly observe previously unexplored portions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Adrian Liu , Yunfan Zhang , Aaron R. Parsons

21 cm intensity mapping has arisen as a powerful probe of the high-redshift universe, but its potential is limited by extremely bright foregrounds and high source confusion. In this Letter, we propose a new analysis which can help solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Patrick C. Breysse , Christopher J. Anderson , Philippe Berger

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 an emerging technique in measuring galaxy evolution and the large-scale structure of the universe. LIM surveys measure the cumulative emission from all galaxies emitting a given line at a particular redshift,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Trevor M. Oxholm

Neutral hydrogen ($\rm{HI}$) $21$-cm intensity mapping (IM) offers an efficient technique for mapping the large-scale structures in the universe. We introduce the 'Cross' Tapered Gridded Estimator (Cross TGE), which cross-correlates two…

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…

We report results from a neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping survey conducted with a Phased Array Feed (PAF) on the Parkes telescope. The survey was designed to cover ~ 380 deg^2 over the redshift range 0.3 < z < 1 (a volume of ~ 1.5…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Lincheng Li , Lister Staveley-Smith , Jonghwan Rhee

We explore the potential of using intensity mapping surveys (MeerKAT, SKA) and optical galaxy surveys (DES, LSST) to detect HI clustering and weak gravitational lensing of 21cm emission in auto- and cross-correlation. Our forecasts show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-18 Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon , Robert Crittenden , R. Benton Metcalf

The neutral hydrogen (HI) signal is a crucial probe for astrophysics and cosmology, but it is quite challenging to measure from raw data because of bright foreground contaminants at radio wavelengths. Cross-correlating the radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Alessandro Marins , Chang Feng , Filipe B. Abdalla

We investigate the prospects of measuring the cosmic magnification effect by cross-correlating neutral hydrogen intensity mapping (HI IM) maps with background optical galaxies. We forecast the signal-to-noise ratio for HI IM data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Amadeus Witzemann , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Mario G. Santos

Mapping the unresolved intensity of the 21-cm emission of neutral hydrogen (HI) is now regarded as one the most promising tools for cosmological investigation in the coming decades. Here, we investigate, for the first time, extensions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-05 Stefano Camera , Hamsa Padmanabhan

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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique with a unique potential to probe a wide range of scales and redshifts. Realizing the full potential of LIM, however, relies on accurate modeling of the signal. We introduce an extended…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Farnik Nikakhtar , Garrett K. Keating , Emanuele Castorina

The spatial clustering properties of HI galaxies can be studied using the formalism of the halo occupation distribution (HOD). The resulting parameter constraints describe properties like gas richness verses environment. Unfortunately,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Stuart Wyithe , Michael J. I. Brown

High-number-density tracers of large-scale structure, such as the HI-rich galaxies measured by 21 cm intensity mapping, have low sampling noise, making them particularly promising as cosmological probes. At large scales, this sampling noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Simon Foreman , Andrej Obuljen , Marko Simonović