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After reionization, neutral hydrogen (HI) traces the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, enabling HI intensity mapping (IM) to capture the LSS in 3D and constrain key cosmological parameters. We present a new framework utilizing…

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We explore the behaviour of [CII]-157.74um forbidden fine-structure line observed in a sample of 28 galaxies selected from ~50deg^2 of the H-ATLAS survey. The sample is restricted to galaxies with flux densities higher than S_160um>150mJy…

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) remains a poorly understood cosmic era for the most part. Yet, efforts are still going on to probe and understand this epoch. We present a review of the latest developments in the techniques (especially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Chandra Shekhar Murmu , Raghunath Ghara , Suman Majumdar , Kanan K. Datta

Detection of the redshifted 21cm-line signal from neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is complicated by intense foregrounds such as galactic synchrotron and extragalactic radio galaxies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-31 Kenji Kubota , Shintaro Yoshiura , Keitaro Takahashi , Kenji Hasegawa , Hidenobu Yajima , Masami Ouchi , B. Pindor , R. L. Webster

We report the first direct and robust measurement of the faint-end slope of the Lyman-alpha emitter (LAE) luminosity function at z = 5.7. Candidate LAEs from a low-spectral-resolution blind search with IMACS on Magellan-Baade were targeted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Alan Dressler , Alaina Henry , Crystal L. Martin , Marcin Sawicki , Patrick McCarthy , Edward Villaneuva

Intensity mapping of neutral hydrogen (HI) is a promising observational probe of cosmology and large-scale structure. We present wide field simulations of HI intensity maps based on N-body simulations of a $2.6\, {\rm Gpc / h}$ box with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sebastian Seehars , Aseem Paranjape , Amadeus Witzemann , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Joel Akeret

The galaxy catalogs generated from low-resolution emission line surveys often contain both foreground and background interlopers due to line misidentification, which can bias the cosmological parameter estimation. In this paper, we present…

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

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 investigate the [CII] line intensity mapping (IM) signal from galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) to assess its detectability, the possibility to constrain the $L_{\rm CII}-{\rm SFR}$ relation, and to recover the [CII] luminosity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Bin Yue , Andrea Ferrara

We describe a new approach to studying the intergalactic and circumgalactic medium in the local Universe: direct detection through narrow-band imaging of ultra-low surface brightness visible-wavelength line emission. We use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 Deborah Lokhorst , Roberto Abraham , Pieter van Dokkum , Nastasha Wijers , Joop Schaye

Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) are excellent probes of the reionization process, as they must be surrounded by large ionized bubbles in order to be visible during the reionization era. Large ionized regions are thought to correspond to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 A. C. Trapp , Steven R. Furlanetto , Frederick B. Davies

We measure the total mass-density profiles out to three effective radii for a sample of 63 $z \sim 0.5$, massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) acting as strong gravitational lenses through a joint analysis of lensing and stellar dynamics. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 Rui Li , Yiping Shu , Jiangcheng Wang

In Paper III of our series "A Uniform Analysis of the Ly-alpha forest at z=0 - 5", we presented a set of 270 quasar spectra from the archives of the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. A total of 151 of these spectra,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jennifer Scott , Jill Bechtold , Miwa Morita , Adam Dobrzycki , Varsha Kulkarni

We present a code to generate mock observations of 21 cm intensity mapping experiments. The emphasis of the code is on reducing the computational cost of running a full-blown simulation, trading computational time for accuracy. The code can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 David Alonso , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos

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

We present a model for the power spectrum of the density field of galaxies weighted by their star formation rate. This weighting is relevant in line-intensity mapping (LIM) when the observed line luminosity is strongly correlated with star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-22 Rui Lan Jun , Tom Theuns , Kana Moriwaki , Sownak Bose

We present the discovery of a low-redshift damped Ly$\alpha$ (DLA) system in the spectrum of background starburst galaxy SDSS J111323.88+293039.3 ($z=0.17514$). The DLA is at an impact parameter of $\rm \rho=36~kpc$ from the star forming…

We study how 21 cm intensity mapping can be used to measure gravitational lensing over a wide range of redshift. This can extend weak lensing measurements to higher redshifts than are accessible with conventional galaxy surveys. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 A. Pourtsidou , R. Benton Metcalf

Ly{\alpha} line EWs provide important clues to the physical nature of high redshift LAEs. However, measuring the Ly{\alpha} EW distribution of high-z narrowband selected LAEs can be hard because many sources do not have broadband…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Zhen-Ya Zheng , Jun-Xian Wang , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Steven L. Finkelstein , Keely Finkelstein