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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

This is the first in a series of three papers describing a project with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope to measure abundances of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) in a sample of 9 nearby star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Bethan L. James , Alessandra Aloisi , Timothy M. Heckman , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Michael A. Wolfe

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

Context. The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) line intensity mapping (LIM) survey will measure the power spectrum (PS) of the singly ionized carbon 158 $\rm \mu$m fine-structure line, [CII], to trace the appearance of the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-24 C. Karoumpis , B. Magnelli , E. Romano-Díaz , K. Garcia , A. Dev , J. Clarke , T. -M. Wang , T. Badescu , D. Riechers , F. Bertoldi

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 produce simulations of emission of the atomic CII line in large sky fields in order to determine the current prospects for mapping this line during the high redshift Epoch of Reionization. We estimate the CII line intensity, redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-22 Marta B. Silva , Mário G. santos , Asantha Cooray , Yan Gong

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

The interstellar medium (ISM) consists of highly ionized and neutral atomic, as well as molecular, components. Knowledge of their distribution is important for tracing the structure and lifecycle of the ISM. Here we determine the properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 W. D. Langer , P. F. Goldsmith , J. L. Pineda

High resolution X-ray absorption spectroscopy is a powerful diagnostic tool for probing chemical and physical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) at various phases. We present detections of K transition absorption lines from the low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Yangsen Yao , Norbert S. Schulz , Ming F. Gu , Michael A. Nowak , Claude R. Canizares

The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) has shown the complexity of the Galactic center (GC) Interstellar medium (ISM) detecting, not only large column densities of warm molecular gas (H2), but the emission of neutral atoms and ions of low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez , J. Martin-Pintado

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique to study galaxy formation and cosmology in the high-redshift Universe. We present LIM estimates of select spectral lines originating from the interstellar medium (ISM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-23 Rahul Kannan , Aaron Smith , Enrico Garaldi , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

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

The rotational lines of carbon monoxide and the fine structure lines of CII and of the most abundant metals, emitted during the epoch of enhanced star formation in the universe, are redshifted in the frequency channels where the present-day…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mattia Righi , Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Rashid Sunyaev

Atomic fine structure lines have been detected in the local Universe and at high redshifts over the past decades. The [C II] emission line at 158 $\mu$m is an important observable as it provides constraints on the interstellar medium (ISM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Andrés Felipe Ramos Padilla , Lingyu Wang , Sylvia Ploeckinger , F. F. S. van der Tak , Scott Trager

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

A full account of galaxy evolution in the context of LCDM cosmology requires measurements of the average star-formation rate (SFR) and cold gas abundance across cosmic time. Emission from the CO ladder traces cold gas, and [CII] fine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Eric R. Switzer

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

Understanding the formation and evolution of the Universe is crucial for cosmological studies, and the line intensity mapping provides a powerful tool for this kind of study. We propose to make use of multipole moments of redshift-space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Asantha Cooray

By redshift of 10, star formation in the first objects should have produced considerable amounts of Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen. The submillimeter lines of C, N and O redshift into the millimeter and centimeter bands (0.5 mm -- 1.2 cm),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maki Suginohara , Tatsushi Suginohara , David N. Spergel

The most important cooling lines of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) lie in the far-infrared (FIR). We present measurements by the Infrared Space Observatory Long Wavelength Spectrometer of seven lines from neutral and ionized ISM of…