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Line-Intensity Mapping is an emerging technique which promises new insights into the evolution of the Universe, from star formation at low redshifts to the epoch of reionization and cosmic dawn. It measures the integrated emission of atomic…

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a novel observational technique in astrophysics that utilizes the integrated emission from multiple atomic and molecular transition lines from galaxies to probe the complex physics of galaxy formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-13 Anirban Roy , Nicholas Battaglia , Anthony R. Pullen

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

Intensity mapping provides a unique means to probe the epoch of reionization (EoR), when the neutral intergalactic medium was ionized by the energetic photons emitted from the first galaxies. The [CII] 158$\mu$m fine-structure line is…

This paper outlines the science case for line-intensity mapping with a space-borne instrument targeting the sub-millimeter (microwaves) to the far-infrared (FIR) wavelength range. Our goal is to observe and characterize the large-scale…

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

We forecast the ability of future-generation experiments to detect the fine-structure lines of the carbon and oxygen ions, [CII] and [OIII] in intensity mapping (IM) from the Epoch of Reionization ($z \sim 6-8$). Combining the latest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Patrick Breysse , Adam Lidz , Eric R. Switzer

The CONCERTO spectral-imaging instrument was installed at the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) 12-meter telescope in April 2021. It has been designed to look at radiation emitted by ionised carbon atoms, [CII], and use the "intensity…

The epoch of reionization (EoR), marking the Universe's transition from a neutral to ionized state, represents a pivotal phase for understanding the formation of the first stars and galaxies. Intensity mapping of atomic and molecular lines,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-17 Anirban Roy , Anthony Pullen , Patrick C. Breysse , Rachel S. Somerville

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

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique to probe the large-scale structure of the Universe. By targeting the integrated intensity of specific spectral lines, it captures the emission from all sources and is sensitive to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Nickolas Kokron , José Luis Bernal

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 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

Observations of the high-redshift Universe using the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen and complimentary emission lines from the first galaxies promise to open a new door for our understanding of the epoch of reionization. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Sebastian Dumitru , Girish Kulkarni , Guilaine Lagache , Martin G. Haehnelt

The abundance of cold molecular gas plays a crucial role in models of galaxy evolution. While deep spectroscopic surveys of CO emission lines have been a primary tool for measuring this abundance, the difficulty of these observations has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Ryan P. Keenan , Garrett K. Keating , Daniel P. Marrone

Infrared fine-structure emission lines from trace metals are powerful diagnostics of the interstellar medium in galaxies. We explore the possibility of studying the redshifted far-IR fine-structure line emission using the three-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Bade D. Uzgil , James E. Aguirre , Charles M. Bradford , Adam Lidz

Originally proposed as a cosmological probe of the large-scale structure, line intensity mapping (LIM) also offers a unique window into the astrophysics of galaxy evolution. Adding to the astrophysical explorations of LIM technique that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Guochao Sun

One of the toughest challenges in modern cosmology is to probe the small scales $k \sim 0.5\,$Mpc$^{-1}$ in the matter power spectrum and clustering. We show that such small scales will be accessible via upcoming line-intensity mapping…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Sarah Libanore , Caner Unal , Debanjan Sarkar , Ely D. Kovetz

We present LIMFAST, a semi-numerical code for simulating high-redshift galaxy formation and cosmic reionization as revealed by multi-tracer line intensity mapping (LIM) signals. LIMFAST builds upon and extends the 21cmFAST code widely used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Lluís Mas-Ribas , Guochao Sun , Tzu-Ching Chang , Michael O. Gonzalez , Richard H. Mebane

The intensity mapping of the [CII] 157.7 $\rm \mu$m fine-structure emission line represents an ideal experiment to probe star formation activity in galaxies, especially in those that are too faint to be individually detected. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Bin Yue , Andrea Ferrara , Andrea Pallottini , Simona Gallerani , Livia Vallini