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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…

Modern slitless spectroscopic surveys, such as Euclid and the Roman Space Telescope, collect vast numbers of galaxy spectra but suffer from low signal-to-noise ratios. This often leads to incorrect redshift assignments when relying on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Marina S. Cagliari , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We discuss a method for detecting the emission from high redshift galaxies by cross correlating flux fluctuations from multiple spectral lines. If one can fit and subtract away the continuum emission with a smooth function of frequency, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eli Visbal , Abraham Loeb

Interloper contamination due to line misidentification is an important issue in the future low-resolution spectroscopic surveys. We realize that the algorithm previously used for photometric redshift self-calibration, with minor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Hui Peng , Yu Yu

Line intensity mapping (LIM) proposes to efficiently observe distant faint galaxies and map the matter density field at high redshift. Building upon the formalism in the companion paper, we first highlight the degeneracies between cosmology…

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

Line-Intensity Mapping (LIM) has emerged as a powerful technique for studying large-scale structure and the high-redshift universe, enabling three-dimensional maps of line emission across vast cosmological volumes. In this review, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Tzu-Ching Chang , Adam Lidz

Contamination of interloper galaxies due to misidentified emission lines can be a big issue in the spectroscopic galaxy clustering surveys, especially in future high-precision observations. We propose a statistical method based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 Yan Gong , Haitao Miao , Pengjie Zhang , Xuelei Chen

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne cryogenic telescope that will survey the spectrum of diffuse emission from both the Milky Way and the cosmic web to probe star formation, the…

In the last decade, it has become clear that the dust-enshrouded star formation contributes significantly to early galaxy evolution. Detection of dust is therefore essential in determining the properties of galaxies in the high-redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Guilaine Lagache

Line-intensity mapping observations will find fluctuations of integrated line emission are attenuated by varying degrees at small scales due to the width of the line emission profiles. This attenuation may significantly impact estimates of…

We address the problem of line confusion in intensity mapping surveys and explore the possibility to mitigate line foreground contamination by progressively masking the brightest pixels in the observed map. We consider experiments targeting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-24 Patrick C. Breysse , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski

Line-Intensity Mapping is an emerging technique which promises new insights into the evolution of the Universe, from star formation at low redshifts to the epoch of reionization and cosmic dawn. It measures the integrated emission of atomic…

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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a technique for producing 3D maps of the Universe by scanning the sky with a spectrometer sensitive to a range of wavelengths corresponding to the redshifted spectral lines of atoms or molecules, such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Samuel H. Kramer , Patrick C. Breysse , Anthony R. Pullen , Faizah K. Siddique , Eric R. Switzer , Peter T. Timbie , Dongwoo Chung

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

Intensity mapping of the HI brightness temperature provides a unique way of tracing large-scale structures of the Universe up to the largest possible scales. This is achieved by using a low angular resolution radio telescopes to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-02 Obinna Umeh

The technique of intensity mapping (IM) has emerged as a powerful tool to explore the universe at $z < 6$. IM measures the integrated emission from sources over a broad range of frequencies, unlocking significantly more information than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Hamsa Padmanabhan

This paper outlines the science case for line-intensity mapping with a space-borne instrument targeting the sub-millimeter (microwaves) to the far-infrared (FIR) wavelength range. Our goal is to observe and characterize the large-scale…

Intensity mapping is now becoming a useful tool to study the large-scale structure of the universe through spatial variations in the integrated emission from galaxies and the intergalactic medium. We study intensity mapping of the H-alpha…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-15 Yan Gong , Asantha Cooray , Marta B. Silva , Michael Zemcov , Chang Feng , Mario G. Santos , Olivier Dore , Xuelei Chen

The intensity mapping of the [CII] 158um line redshifted to the sub-mm window is a promising probe of the z>4 star formation and its spatial distribution into the large-scale structure. To prepare the first-generation experiments (e.g.,…