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Cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) surveys provide a promising tomographic probe of the post-reionization era and of the standard model of cosmology. Simulations of this signal are crucial for maximizing the utility of these surveys. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Pascal Hitz , Pascale Berner , Devin Crichton , John Hennig , Alexandre Refregier

Observations with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) have been used to measure the 21 cm intensity mapping auto power spectrum, at $z\sim 1$, over a frequency range from 608.2 MHz to 707.8 MHz at wavenumbers…

We carried out synthetic observations of interstellar atomic hydrogen at 21cm wavelength by utilizing the magneto-hydrodynamical numerical simulations of the inhomogeneous turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) Inoue and Inutsuka (2012). The…

Mapping of the neutral hydrogen (HI) 21-cm intensity fluctuations across redshifts promises a novel and powerful probe of cosmology. The neutral hydrogen gas mass density, $\Omega_{\rm HI}$ and bias parameter, $b_{\rm HI}$ are key…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-10 Hamsa Padmanabhan , T. Roy Choudhury , Alexandre Refregier

Neutral hydrogen (HI) $21$-cm intensity mapping (IM) is a promising probe of the large-scale structures in the Universe. However, a few orders of magnitude brighter foregrounds obscure the IM signal. Here we use the Tapered Gridded…

The homogeneity scale, $R_{\rm H}$, offers a fundamental test of the Cosmological Principle, yet it has not yet been measured with 21cm intensity mapping surveys. A key limitation for such a measurement is the telescope beam, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Bruno B. Bizarria , Camila P. Novaes , Felipe Avila , Rahima Mokeddem , Helissa H. da Costa , Carlos A. Wuensche , Gabriel A. S. Silva

Physical properties of the tiny scale structures in the cold neutral medium (CNM) of galaxies is a long-standing puzzle. Only a few lines of sights in our Galaxy have been studies with mixed results on the scale-invariant properties of such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 P. K. Vishwakarma , P. Dutta

We investigate the possible presence of neutral hydrogen (HI) in intergalactic filaments at very low redshift ($z\sim 0.08$), by stacking a set of 274,712 2dFGRS galaxy pairs over 21-cm maps obtained with dedicated observations conducted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Denis Tramonte , Yin-Zhe Ma , Yi-Chao Li , Lister Staveley-Smith

In the coming decade, low-frequency radio arrays will begin to probe the epoch of reionization via the redshifted 21-cm hydrogen line. Successful interpretation of these observations will require effective statistical techniques for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vera Gluscevic , Rennan Barkana

We propose to use a simple observable, the fractional area of "hot spots" in weak lensing mass maps which are detected with high significance, to determine background cosmological parameters. Because these high-shear regions are directly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Sheng Wang , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May , John Kehayias

Large deviation statistics is implemented to predict the statistics of cosmic densities in cylinders applicable to photometric surveys. It yields few percent accurate analytical predictions for the one-point probability distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Cora Uhlemann , Christophe Pichon , Sandrine Codis , Benjamin L'Huillier , Juhan Kim , Francis Bernardeau , Changbom Park , Simon Prunet

One of the most promising probes to complement current standard cosmological surveys is the HI intensity map, i.e. the distribution of temperature fluctuations in neutral hydrogen. In this paper we present calculations of the 2-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 Anut Sangka , David Bacon

HI 21~cm absorption spectroscopy provides an excellent probe of the neutral gas content of absorbing galaxies, yielding information on their kinematics, mass, physical size and ISM conditions. The high sensitivity, unrivaled frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Kanekar , F. H. Briggs

HI Intensity Mapping (IM) will be used to do precision cosmology using many existing and upcoming radio observatories. The signal will be contaminated due to absorption, the largest component of which will be the flux absorbed by the HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Sambit Roychowdhury , Clive Dickinson , Ian W. A. Browne

The 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen surveys holds great potential as a valuable method for exploring the large-scale structure of the Universe. In this paper, we forecast for the cross-correlation between the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Ayodeji Ibitoye , Furen Deng , Yichao Li , Yin-Zhe Ma , Xuelei Chen

The nature of dark matter remains a central question in cosmology, with fuzzy dark matter (FDM) models offering a compelling alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. We explore FDM scenarios by performing 21-cm simulations across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bahareh Soleimanpour Salmasi , S. Mobina Hosseini

Intensity mapping -- the large-scale mapping of selected spectral lines without resolving individual sources -- is quickly emerging as an efficient way to conduct large cosmological surveys. Multiple surveys covering a variety of lines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hannah Fronenberg , Adrian Liu

This white paper envisions a revolutionary post-DESI, post-LSST dark energy program based on intensity mapping of the redshifted 21cm emission line from neutral hydrogen at radio frequencies. The proposed intensity mapping survey has the…

Using a spectral stacking technique, we measure the neutral hydrogen (HI) properties of a sample of galaxies at $z < 0.11$ across 35 pointings of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). The radio data contains 1,895 galaxies with…

The observed large-scale structure of the Universe is not a direct measure on the underlying distribution of matter. These observations are subtly distorted by gravitational lensing effects, which leave imprints on the statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 T. Sinde , J. Fonseca