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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

By opening up new avenues to statistically constrain astrophysics and cosmology with large-scale structure observations, the line intensity mapping (LIM) technique calls for novel tools for efficient forward modeling and inference. Implicit…

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 José Fonseca

The technique of intensity mapping (IM) has emerged as a powerful tool to explore the universe at $z < 6$. IM measures the integrated emission from sources over a broad range of frequencies, unlocking significantly more information than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Hamsa Padmanabhan

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique with a unique potential to probe a wide range of scales and redshifts. Realizing the full potential of LIM, however, relies on accurate modeling of the signal. We introduce an extended…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Farnik Nikakhtar , Garrett K. Keating , Emanuele Castorina

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 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

We present a systematic study of the intensity mapping technique using updated models for the different emission lines from galaxies and identify which ones are more promising for cosmological studies of the post reionization epoch. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-25 José Fonseca , Marta B. Silva , Mário G. Santos , Asantha Cooray

Line-intensity mapping (LIM or IM) is an emerging field of observational work, with strong potential to fit into a larger effort to probe large-scale structure and small-scale astrophysical phenomena using multiple complementary tracers.…

Next-generation tests of fundamental physics and cosmology using large scale structure require measurements over large volumes of the Universe, including high redshifts inaccessible to present-day surveys. Line intensity mapping, an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-15 Kirit S. Karkare , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Garrett K. Keating , Patrick Breysse , Dongwoo T. Chung

Line intensity mapping offers a new avenue for constraining cosmological parameters in the high redshift Universe. However measurements of the growth of structure, a sensitive probe of gravity, are affected by a well known degeneracy with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-04 Emanuele Castorina , Martin White

There is growing interest in using 3-dimensional neutral hydrogen mapping with the redshifted 21 cm line as a cosmological probe, as it has been argued to have a greater long-term potential than the cosmic microwave background. However, its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi Mao , Max Tegmark , Matthew McQuinn , Matias Zaldarriaga , Oliver Zahn

We model a 21 cm intensity mapping survey in the redshift range 0.01<z<1.5 designed to simulate the skies as seen by future radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), including instrumental noise and Galactic foregrounds. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-27 L. Wolz , F. B. Abdalla , C. Blake , J. R. Shaw , E. Chapman , S. Rawlings

The apparent anisotropies of galaxy clustering and 21-cm mapping in redshift space offer a unique opportunity to simultaneously probe cosmic expansion and gravity on cosmological scales through the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Kyungjin Ahn , Feng Shi

Line intensity mapping experiments seek to trace large scale structure by measuring the spatial fluctuations in the combined emission, in some convenient spectral line, from individually unresolved galaxies. An important systematic concern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Adam Lidz , Jessie Taylor

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) imprinted in the galaxy power spectrum can be used as a standard ruler to determine angular diameter distance and Hubble parameter at high redshift galaxies. Combining redshift distortion effect which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Atsushi Taruya , Shun Saito , Takahiro Nishimichi

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is a growing technique that measures the integrated spectral-line emission from unresolved galaxies over a three-dimensional region of the Universe. Although LIM experiments ultimately aim to provide powerful…

Current and future generations of intensity mapping surveys promise dramatic improvements in our understanding of galaxy evolution and large-scale structure. An intensity map provides a census of the cumulative emission from all galaxies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Trevor M. Oxholm , Eric R. Switzer

The galaxy power spectrum is now a well-known tool of precision cosmology. In addition to the overall shape, baryon oscillations and the small-scale suppression of power by massive neutrinos capture complimentary information on cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Tony Y. Li , Risa H. Wechsler , Kiruthika Devaraj , Sarah E. Church