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The H-alpha line emission is an important probe for a number of fundamental quantities in galaxies, including their number density, star formation rate (SFR) and overall gas content. A new generation of low-resolution intensity mapping…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Marta B. Silva , Saleem Zaroubi , Robin Kooistra , Asantha Cooray

We present a quantitative model of Lyman-alpha (Ly-alpha) emission throughout cosmic history and determine the prospects for intensity mapping of spatial fluctuations in the Ly-alpha signal. Since i) our model assumes at z>6 the minimum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anthony Pullen , Olivier Dore , Jamie Bock

We present a study of the cosmological Ly$\alpha$ emission signal at $z > 4$. Our goal is to predict the power spectrum of the spatial fluctuations that could be observed by an intensity mapping survey. The model uses the latest data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 P. Comaschi , A. Ferrara

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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising approach to study star formation and the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies by measuring the aggregate line emission from the entire galaxy population. In this work, we develop a simple yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Guochao Sun , Brandon S. Hensley , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Paolo Serra

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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) serves as a potent probe in astrophysics, relying on the statistical analysis of integrated spectral line emissions originating from distant star-forming galaxies. While LIM observations hold the promise of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Anirban Roy , Nicholas Battaglia

Line intensity mapping experiments seek to trace large scale structure by measuring the spatial fluctuations in the combined emission, in some convenient spectral line, from individually unresolved galaxies. An important systematic concern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Adam Lidz , Jessie Taylor

We present a systematic study of the intensity mapping technique using updated models for the different emission lines from galaxies and identify which ones are more promising for cosmological studies of the post reionization epoch. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-25 José Fonseca , Marta B. Silva , Mário G. Santos , Asantha Cooray

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging approach to survey the Universe, using relatively low-aperture instruments to scan large portions of the sky and collect the total spectral-line emission from galaxies and the intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 José Luis Bernal , Ely D. Kovetz

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

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) offers an approach to obtain three-dimensional maps of the large-scale structure by collecting the aggregate emission from all emitters along the line of sight. The procedure hinges on reconstructing the radial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 José Luis Bernal , Antón Baleato Lizancos

We calculate the absolute intensity and anisotropies of the Lyman-alpha radiation field present during the epoch of reionization. We consider emission from both galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) and take into account the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Marta B. Silva , Mario G. Santos , Yan Gong , Asantha Cooray , James Bock

The intensity mapping of the [CII] 157.7 $\rm \mu$m fine-structure emission line represents an ideal experiment to probe star formation activity in galaxies, especially in those that are too faint to be individually detected. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Bin Yue , Andrea Ferrara , Andrea Pallottini , Simona Gallerani , Livia Vallini

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

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique to probe the large-scale structure of the Universe. By targeting the integrated intensity of specific spectral lines, it captures the emission from all sources and is sensitive to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Nickolas Kokron , José Luis Bernal

Line intensity mapping (LIM) has the potential to produce highly precise measurements of scale-dependence bias from primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) due to its ability to map much larger volumes than are available from galaxy surveys. PNG…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Chang Chen , Anthony R. Pullen

Intensity mapping has attracted significant interest as an approach to measure the properties of the interstellar medium in typical galaxies at high redshift. Intensity mapping measures the statistics of surface brightness as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 E. R. Switzer , C. J. Anderson , A. R. Pullen , S. Yang

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising tool to efficiently probe the three-dimensional large-scale structure by mapping the aggregate emission of a spectral line from all sources that trace the matter density field. Spectral lines from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-09 Yun-Ting Cheng , Tzu-Ching Chang , James J. Bock
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