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Standard rulers such as the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale serve as workhorses for precision tests of cosmology, enabling distance measurements that probe the geometry and expansion history of our Universe. Aside from BAO…

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The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to measure the accelerated expansion of the Universe. To extract all available information about dark energy, it is necessary to…

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

The imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in large-scale structure can be used as a standard ruler for mapping out the cosmic expansion history, and hence for testing cosmological models. In this article we briefly describe the…

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Intensity mapping, which images a single spectral line from unresolved galaxies across cosmological volumes, is a promising technique for probing the early universe. Here we present predictions for the intensity map and power spectrum of…

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Intensity mapping has been attracting increasing interest as a way to study galaxy evolution and the large scale structure of the Universe. Instead of detecting individual galaxies, we measure the integrated emission from a volume of the…

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Mapping the expansion of the universe gives clues to the underlying physics causing the recently discovered acceleration of the expansion, and enables discrimination among cosmological models. We examine the utility of measuring the rate of…

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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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique for probing the aggregate emission of a spectral line from all sources, without requiring individual detections. Through the wavelength-redshift relation, one can map the line-of-sight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Yun-Ting Cheng , Brandon S. Hensley , Thomas S. -Y. Lai

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising approach to study star formation and the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies by measuring the aggregate line emission from the entire galaxy population. In this work, we develop a simple yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Guochao Sun , Brandon S. Hensley , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Paolo Serra

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a rapidly emerging technique for constraining cosmology and galaxy formation using multi-frequency, low angular resolution maps. Many LIM applications crucially rely on cross-correlations of two line…

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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) serves as a potent probe in astrophysics, relying on the statistical analysis of integrated spectral line emissions originating from distant star-forming galaxies. While LIM observations hold the promise of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Anirban Roy , Nicholas Battaglia

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)…

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Line-intensity mapping (LIM) surveys will characterise the cosmological large-scale structure of emissivity in a range of atomic and molecular spectral lines, but existing literature rarely considers whether these surveys can recover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Dongwoo T. Chung

The expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating, and the mysterious anti-gravity agent of this acceleration has been called ``dark energy''. To measure the dynamics of dark energy, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) can be used.…

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Line intensity mapping (LIM) experiments probing the nearby universe can expect a considerable amount of cosmic infrared background (CIB) contiuum emission coming from near and far-infrared galaxies. For the purpose of using the LIM data to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zilu Zhou , Abhishek S. Maniyar , Anthony R. Pullen

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…

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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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging observational method to study the large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution. LIM does not resolve individual sources but probes the fluctuations of integrated line emissions. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Kana Moriwaki , Nina Filippova , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida