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We present a new halo model of neutral hydrogen (HI) calibrated to galaxy formation simulations at redshifts $z\sim0.1$ and $z\sim1.0$ that we employ to investigate the constraining power of interferometric HI intensity mapping on HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Zhaoting Chen , Laura Wolz , Marta Spinelli , Steven G. Murray

Intensity mapping surveys will provide access to a coarse view of the cosmic large-scale structure in unprecedented large volumes at high redshifts. Given the large fractions of the sky that can be efficiently scanned using emission from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Oliver Leicht , Cora Uhlemann , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Sandrine Codis , Lars Hernquist , Shy Genel

Large Scale Structures (LSS) in the universe can be traced using the neutral atomic hydrogen HI through its 21cm emission. Such a 3D matter distribution map can be used to test the Cosmological model and to constrain the Dark Energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Ansari , J. E. Campagne , P. Colom , J. M. Le Goff , C. Magneville , J. M. Martin , M. Moniez , J. Rich , C. Yèche

Line intensity mapping (LIM) proposes to efficiently observe distant faint galaxies and map the matter density field at high redshift. Building upon the formalism in the companion paper, we first highlight the degeneracies between cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Emmanuel Schaan , Martin White

We investigate the feasibility of measuring the effects of peculiar velocities in large-scale structure using the dipole of the redshift-space cross-correlation function. We combine number counts of galaxies with brightness-temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-01 Alex Hall , Camille Bonvin

Cross-correlations between 21cm observations and galaxy surveys provide a powerful probe of reionization by reducing foreground sensitivity while linking ionization morphology to galaxies. We quantify the constraining power of 21cm-Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Yannic Pietschke , Anne Hutter , Caroline Heneka

This paper describes a programme to map large-scale cosmic structures on the largest possible scales by using the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to make a 21 cm (red-shifted) intensity map of the sky for the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 George F. Smoot , Ivan Debono

HI intensity mapping is an emerging tool to probe dark energy. Observations of the redshifted HI signal will be contaminated by instrumental noise, atmospheric and Galactic foregrounds. The latter is expected to be four orders of magnitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , C. Dickinson , R. A. Battye , I. W. A. Browne , Y. -Z. Ma , B. Maffei , F. Noviello , M. Remazeilles , P. N. Wilkinson

Intensity mapping of neutral hydrogen (HI) is a promising observational probe of cosmology and large-scale structure. We present wide field simulations of HI intensity maps based on N-body simulations of a $2.6\, {\rm Gpc / h}$ box with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sebastian Seehars , Aseem Paranjape , Amadeus Witzemann , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Joel Akeret

The mean and the scatter of the HI content of a dark-matter halo as a function of the halo mass are useful statistics that can be used to test models of structure and galaxy formation. We investigate the possibility of constraining this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-21 Benedetta Spina , Cristiano Porciani , Carlo Schimd

Intensity mapping has emerged as a promising tool to probe the three-dimensional structure of the universe. The traditional approach of galaxy redshift surveys is based on individual galaxy detection, typically performed by thresholding and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 Yun-Ting Cheng , Roland de Putter , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Dore

21cm tomography promises to be a powerful tool for estimating cosmological parameters, constraining the epoch of reionization, and probing the so-called dark ages. However, realizing this promise will require the extraction of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Adrian Liu , Max Tegmark

Spectral line intensity mapping has been proposed as a promising tool to efficiently probe the cosmic reionization and the large-scale structure. Without detecting individual sources, line intensity mapping makes use of all available…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Yun-Ting Cheng , Tzu-Ching Chang , James Bock , C. Matt Bradford , Asantha Cooray

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

Cross-correlating the data of neutral hydrogen (HI) 21cm intensity mapping with galaxy surveys is an effective method to extract astrophysical and cosmological information. In this work, we investigate the cross-correlation of MeerKAT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Yuer Jiang , Yan Gong , Meng Zhang , Qi Xiong , Xingchen Zhou , Furen Deng , Xuelei Chen , Yin-Zhe Ma , Bin Yue

We investigate the prospects of measuring the cosmic magnification effect by cross-correlating neutral hydrogen intensity mapping (HI IM) maps with background optical galaxies. We forecast the signal-to-noise ratio for HI IM data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Amadeus Witzemann , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Mario G. Santos

We investigate the prospect of constraining scalar field dark energy models using HI 21-cm intensity mapping surveys. We consider a wide class of coupled scalar field dark energy models whose predictions about the background cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Azam Hussain , Shruti Thakur , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A Sen

The first direct measurements of the HI intensity mapping power spectrum were recently made using the MeerKAT telescope. These measurements are on nonlinear scales, at redshifts 0.32 and 0.44. We develop a formalism for modelling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Roy Maartens , Obinna Umeh , Stefano Camera

We study a model of interacting dark matter and dark energy, in which the two components are coupled. We calculate the predictions for the 21-cm intensity mapping power spectra, and forecast the detectability with future single-dish…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-13 Xiaodong Xu , Yin-Zhe Ma , Amanda Weltman

A new generation of interferometric instruments is emerging which aim to use intensity mapping of redshifted $21\,$cm radiation to measure the large-scale structure of the Universe at $z\simeq 1-2$ over wide areas of sky. While these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Martin White , Nikhil Padmanabhan