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Strong gravitational lensing provides some of the deepest views of the Universe, enabling studies of high-redshift galaxies only possible with next-generation facilities without the lensing phenomenon. To date, 21 cm radio emission from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 R. P. Deane , D. Obreschkow , I. Heywood

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the largest single dish radio telescope in the world, has implemented an innovative technology for its huge reflector, which changes the shape of the primary reflector from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Jian-Ling Li , Bo Peng , Cheng-Jin Jin , Hui Li , Richard G. Strom , Bin Liu , Xiao-Ming Chai , Li-Jia Liu

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

In this short contribution we consider what types of surveys might be optimally pursued with path-finding instruments of 1%, 10% and finally 100% of the projected SKA sensitivity from the perspective of scientific applications that utilize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Braun

We study how 21 cm intensity mapping can be used to measure gravitational lensing over a wide range of redshift. This can extend weak lensing measurements to higher redshifts than are accessible with conventional galaxy surveys. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 A. Pourtsidou , R. Benton Metcalf

FAST, the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world, has a 500-meter diameter main reflector and a 300-meter diameter illumination area. It has a shape variable main reflector, which changes the shape of the illuminated area in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Ding-qiang Su , Hua Bai , Xiangqun Cui

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) was completed with its main structure installed on September 25, 2016, after which it entered the commissioning phase. This paper aims to introduce the commissioning progress…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Peng Jiang , Youling Yue , Hengqian Gan , Rui Yao , Hui Li , Gaofeng Pan , Jinghai Sun , Dongjun Yu , Hongfei Liu , Ningyu Tang , Lei Qian , Jiguang Lu , Jun Yan , Bo Peng , Shuxin Zhang , Qiming Wang , Qi Li , Di Li

This paper presents the first results of a far-infrared search for protocluster-associated galaxy overdensities using the SPIRE instrument on-board the {\it Herschel} Space Observatory. Large ($\sim$400 arcmin$^{2}$) fields surrounding 26…

We have observed the DEEP2 galaxies using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope in the frequency band of 610 MHz. There are $\simeq 400$ galaxies in the redshift range $1.24 < z < 1.36$ and within the field of view $\simeq 44'$, of the GMRT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-20 Shiv K. Sethi , K. S. Dwarakanath , Chandrashekar Murugesan

Neutral hydrogen (HI) is the fundamental component of the interstellar medium. The Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey is designed for hunting pulsars by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-01 Tao Hong , J. L. Han , L. G. Hou , X. Y. Gao , Chen Wang , Tao Wang

An all sky redshift survey, using hydrogen 21 cm emission to locate galaxies, can be used to track the wavelength of baryon acoustic oscillations imprints from z ~ 1.5 to z = 0. This will allow precise determination of the evolution of dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey B. Peterson , Kevin Bandura , Ue Li Pen

While LOFAR and the SKA will enable the study of HI at the epoch of reionization for the first time, expectations for the distribution of HI at that redshift depend on our understanding of the cosmological HI mass density at the present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher M. Springob

Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ Absorber(DLA) of HI 21cm system is an ideal probe to directly measure cosmic acceleration in real-time cosmology via Sandage-Loeb(SL) test. During short observations toward two DLAs in the commissioning progress of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-31 Chang-Zhi Lu , Kang Jiao , Tingting Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang , Ming Zhu

Being the most prominent HI line, Ly$\alpha$ permeates the cosmic web in emission. Despite its potential as a cosmological probe, its detection on large scales remains elusive. We present a new methodology to perform Ly$\alpha$ intensity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Pablo Renard , Daniele Spinoso , Zechang Sun , Hu Zou , Paulo Montero-Camacho , Zheng Cai

In this article I briefly describe how deep radio surveys may provide a means to identify variations in the upper end of the initial mass function (IMF) in star-forming galaxies at high redshifts (i.e., $z\gtrsim$3). At such high redshifts,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-10 Eric J. Murphy

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

Three-millimeter-wavelength spectra of a number of nearby galaxies have been obtained at the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO) using a new, very broadband receiver. This instrument, which we call the Redshift Search Receiver,…

We have undertaken a survey for HI 21-cm absorption within the host galaxies of z ~ 1.2 - 1.5 radio sources, in the search of the cool neutral gas currently "missing" at z > 1. This deficit is believed to be due to the optical selection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. J. Curran , M. T. Whiting , A. Tanna , E. M. Sadler , M. B. Pracy , R. Athreya

FastSound is a galaxy redshift survey using the near-infrared Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, targeting H$\alpha$ emitters at $z \sim 1.18$--$1.54$ down to the sensitivity limit of H$\alpha$ flux…

In this study we define a new sample of distant powerful radio galaxies in order to study their host-galaxy properties and provide targets for future observations of HI absorption with new radio telescopes and to understand the fuelling and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Takalani Marubini , Matt J. Jarvis , Stephen Fine , Tom Mauch , Kim McAlpine , Matthew Prescott