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The study of molecular gas is crucial for understanding star formation, feedback, and the broader ecosystem of a galaxy as a whole. However, we have limited understanding of its physics and distribution in all but the nearest galaxies. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-18 Patrick C. Breysse , Mubdi Rahman

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…

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging observational technique that is used to observe the universe on large scales at low resolution through spectral line emission. Stacking analyses coadd cutouts of LIM data on positions of known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Ella M. Mansfield , Delaney A. Dunne , Dongwoo T. Chung

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

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…

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument that will survey galaxy and star formation history over cosmological time scales. Rather than identifying individual objects,…

We forecast the ability of future-generation experiments to detect the fine-structure lines of the carbon and oxygen ions, [CII] and [OIII] in intensity mapping (IM) from the Epoch of Reionization ($z \sim 6-8$). Combining the latest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Patrick Breysse , Adam Lidz , Eric R. Switzer

Line intensity mapping (LIM) provides a unique and powerful means to probe cosmic structures by measuring the aggregate line emission from all galaxies across redshift. The method is complementary to conventional galaxy redshift surveys…

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique for probing the large-scale structure (LSS) in the post-reionisation era. This captures the integrated flux of a particular spectral line emission from multiple sources within a patch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Manas Mohit Dosibhatla , Suman Majumdar , Chandra Shekhar Murmu , Samit Kumar Pal , Saswata Dasgupta , Satadru Bag , Abhirup Datta

The field of millimetre-wave line-intensity mapping (LIM) is seeing increased experimental activity with pathfinder surveys already deployed or deploying in the next few years, making spectroscopic measurements of unresolved atomic and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Dongwoo T Chung

Forthcoming measurements of the line-intensity mapping (LIM) power spectrum (PS) are expected to provide valuable constraints on astrophysical and cosmological quantities. We focus on the [CII] luminosity function (LF) at high redshift,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Elena Marcuzzo , Cristiano Porciani , Emilio Romano-Díaz , Prachi Khatri

Sub-millimeter emission lines are important tracers of the cold gas and ionized environments of galaxies and are the targets for future line intensity mapping surveys. Physics-based simulations that predict multiple emission lines arising…

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

21cm Intensity Mapping (IM) has been proposed about 15 years ago as a cost effective method to carry out cosmological surveys and to map the 3D distribution of matter in the universe, over a large range of post EoR redshifts, from z=0 to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-01 Reza Ansari

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a novel observational technique in astrophysics that utilizes the integrated emission from multiple atomic and molecular transition lines from galaxies to probe the complex physics of galaxy formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-13 Anirban Roy , Nicholas Battaglia , Anthony R. Pullen

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

Intensity mapping is now becoming a useful tool to study the large-scale structure of the universe through spatial variations in the integrated emission from galaxies and the intergalactic medium. We study intensity mapping of the H-alpha…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-15 Yan Gong , Asantha Cooray , Marta B. Silva , Michael Zemcov , Chang Feng , Mario G. Santos , Olivier Dore , Xuelei Chen

Line intensity mapping provides a statistical approach to tracing the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. We apply the HI intensity mapping technique to interferometric data from the MeerKAT International GHz-Tiered…

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) offers a novel avenue to observe and characterize our universe. LIM data of CO spectral lines are becoming available, such as those obtained by the CO Mapping Array Project (COMAP). COMAP data can be used to…

The nature of dark matter is a longstanding mystery in cosmology, which can be studied with laboratory or collider experiments, as well as astrophysical and cosmological observations. In this work, we propose realistic and efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 José Luis Bernal , Andrea Caputo , Marc Kamionkowski