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Molecular hydrogen is now understood to be the main coolant of the primordial gas clouds leading to the formation of the very first stars and galaxies. The line emissions associated with molecular hydrogen should then be a good tracer of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yan Gong , Asantha Cooray , Mario G. Santos

Line-intensity mapping of the 21cm line is a powerful probe of large scale structure at z<6, tracing large-scale structure via neutral hydrogen content that is found within galaxies. In principle, it enables cost-efficient surveys of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Adrian Liu , Simon Foreman , Hamsa Padmanabhan , H. Cynthia Chiang , Seth Siegel , Dallas Wulf , Jonathan Sievers , Matt Dobbs , Keith Vanderlinde

We present a formalism that incorporates hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) polarization arising from the scattering of radiation in galaxy halos into the intensity mapping approach. Using the halo model, and emission profiles based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Lluís Mas-Ribas , Tzu-Ching Chang

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…

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) surveys will characterise the cosmological large-scale structure of emissivity in a range of atomic and molecular spectral lines, but existing literature rarely considers whether these surveys can recover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Dongwoo T. Chung

HI intensity mapping (IM) is a novel technique capable of mapping the large-scale structure of the Universe in three dimensions and delivering exquisite constraints on cosmology, by using HI as a biased tracer of the dark matter density…

Optical emission line diagnostics, which are a common tool to constrain the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies, become progressively inaccessible at higher redshifts for ground-based facilities. Far-infrared (FIR)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Alice Schimek , Claudia Cicone , Sijing Shen , Davide Decataldo , Pamela Klaassen , Lucio Mayer

We present new simulations of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) intensity maps that include Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and all significant sources of Ly$\alpha$ photons. The sources considered include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-29 Abigail E. Ambrose , Eli Visbal , Mihir Kulkarni , Matthew McQuinn

We use the inferred evolution of Lyman-$\alpha$ luminosities of galaxies in the redshift range of $z \sim 9-16$ from the ${James \ Webb \ Space \ Telescope}$ (JWST) data to predict the power spectrum of Loeb-Rybicki haloes formed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Abraham Loeb

We present a measurement of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) intensity mapping power spectrum from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). We measure the cross-power spectrum of the Ly$\alpha$ intensity and…

Observations of the high-redshift Universe using the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen and complimentary emission lines from the first galaxies promise to open a new door for our understanding of the epoch of reionization. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Sebastian Dumitru , Girish Kulkarni , Guilaine Lagache , Martin G. Haehnelt

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a new technique for tracing the global properties of galaxies over cosmic time. Detection of the very faint signals from redshifted carbon monoxide (CO), a tracer of star formation, pushes the limits of what…

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

Sub-millimeter emission lines produced by the interstellar medium (ISM) are strong tracers of star formation and are some of the main targets of line intensity mapping (LIM) surveys. In this work we present an empirical multi-line emission…

The Millimeter-wave Intensity Mapping Experiment (mmIME) recently reported a detection of excess spatial fluctuations at a wavelength of 3 mm, which can be attributed to unresolved emission of several CO rotational transitions between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Patrick C. Breysse , Shengqi Yang , Rachel S. Somerville , Anthony R. Pullen , Gergö Popping , Abhishek S. Maniyar

We present Keck/MOSFIRE spectra of the diagnostic nebular emission lines [OIII]5007,4959, [OII]3727, and H-beta for a sample of 15 redshift z=3.1-3.7 Ly-alpha emitters (LAEs) and Lyman break galaxies (LBGs). In conjunction with spectra from…

Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) will shed light on the origin of primordial fluctuations and the physics of the early universe. The intensity mapping technique is a promising probe of structure formation on large scales; at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Garrett K. Keating

We test the ability of equilibrium galactic disk and one-zone interstellar medium models to describe the physical and emission properties of quasar hosts, submillimeter galaxies, and Lyman-alpha emitters at z>~6. The size, line widths, star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Joseph A. Muñoz , Steven R. Furlanetto

Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper is a "Probe Class" mission concept for reionization studies of the universe. It will be capable of spectroscopic imaging observations between 0.7 to 6-7 microns in the near-Infrared. The primary observational…

The [OIII] 88 $\mu$m fine structure emission line has been detected into the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) from star-forming galaxies at redshifts $6 < z \lesssim 9$ with ALMA. These measurements provide valuable information regarding the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Shengqi Yang , Adam Lidz , Gergö Popping
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