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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

Accurate beam modeling is important in many radio astronomy applications. In this paper, we focus on beam modeling for 21-cm intensity mapping experiments using radio interferometers, though the techniques also apply to single dish…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Michael J. Wilensky , Philip Bull , Nicolas Fagnoni

One of the main goals of modern observational cosmology is to map the large scale structure of the Universe. A potentially powerful approach for doing this would be to exploit three-dimensional spectral maps, i.e. the specific intensity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Roland de Putter , Gilbert P. Holder , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Dore

The large-scale structure of the Universe should soon be measured at high redshift during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) through line-intensity mapping. A number of ongoing and planned surveys are using the 21 cm line to trace neutral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Angus Beane , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Adam Lidz

We quantify the prospects for using emission lines from rotational transitions of the CO molecule to perform an `intensity mapping' observation at high redshift during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The aim of CO intensity mapping is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Adam Lidz , Steven R. Furlanetto , S. Peng Oh , James Aguirre , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Jonathan R. Pritchard

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

Neutral hydrogen intensity mapping can in principle deliver rapid and large-volume cosmological surveys with exquisitely accurate redshifts that are determined directly from imaging. However, intensity maps suffer from very strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Rahul Kothari , Roy Maartens

Intensity mapping provides a unique means to probe the epoch of reionization (EoR), when the neutral intergalactic medium was ionized by the energetic photons emitted from the first galaxies. The [CII] 158$\mu$m fine-structure line is…

Intensity mapping (IM) is sensitive to the cumulative line emission of galaxies. As such it represents a promising technique for statistical studies of galaxies fainter than the limiting magnitude of traditional galaxy surveys. The strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Paolo Comaschi , Bin Yue , Andrea Ferrara

The detailed shapes of spectral line profiles provide valuable information about the emitting plasma, especially when the plasma contains an unresolved mixture of velocities, temperatures, and densities. As a result of finite spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-17 James A. Klimchuk , Spiros Patsourakos , Durgesh Tripathi

The Multi-frequency Angular Power Spectrum (MAPS) is an alternative to spherically-averaged power spectra, and computes local fluctuations in the angular power spectrum without need for line-of-sight spectral transform. To test different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Cathryn M. Trott , Rajesh Mondal , Garrelt Mellema , Steven G. Murray , Bradley Greig , Jack L. B. Line , Nichole Barry , Miguel F. Morales

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

Modern cosmological surveys cover extremely large volumes and map fluctuations on scales reaching gigaparsecs. As a result, it is no longer a valid assumption to ignore cosmological evolution along the line of sight from one end of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Mattéo Blamart , Adrian Liu

Using the 21 cm line, observed all-sky and across the redshift range from 0 to 5, the large scale structure of the Universe can be mapped in three dimensions. This can be accomplished by studying specific intensity with resolution ~ 10 Mpc,…

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising observational method to probe large-scale fluctuations of line emission from distant galaxies. Data from wide-field LIM observations allow us to study the large-scale structure of the universe as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Kana Moriwaki , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

We propose a data-adaptive probabilistic intensity remapping framework for structure-preserving transformation of grayscale images. The suggested method formulates intensity transformation as a continuous, data-driven remapping process, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Debashis Saikia , Bikash K. Behera , Mayukha Pal , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

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

Recent years have seen an increased interest in the application of methods and techniques commonly associated with machine learning and artificial intelligence to spatial statistics. Here, in a celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-25 Tin Lok James Ng , Andrew Zammit-Mangion

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

21cm intensity mapping experiments aim to observe the diffuse neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution on large scales which traces the Cosmic structure. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have the capacity to measure the 21cm signal over a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Laura Wolz , Filipe B. Abdalla , David Alonso , Chris Blake , Philip Bull , Tzu-Ching Chang , Pedro G. Ferreira , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Marios G. Santos , Richard Shaw