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We consider the potential for line intensity mapping (LIM) of the rotational CO(1-0), CO(2-1) and CO(3-2) transitions to detect deviations from General Relativity from $0 < z < 3$ within the framework of a very general class of modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Bryan R. Scott , Kirit S. Karkare , Simeon Bird

The peculiar velocity of the intergalactic gas responsible for the cosmic 21cm background from the epoch of reionization and beyond introduces an anisotropy in the three-dimensional power spectrum of brightness temperature fluctuations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yi Mao , Paul R. Shapiro , Garrelt Mellema , Ilian T. Iliev , Jun Koda , Kyungjin Ahn

The measurement of the large scale distribution of neutral hydrogen in the late Universe, obtained with radio telescopes through the hydrogen 21cm line emission, has the potential to become a key cosmological probe in the upcoming years. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Maria Berti , Marta Spinelli , Matteo Viel

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) provides a promising way to probe cosmology, reionization and galaxy evolution. However, its sensitivity to cosmology and astrophysics at the same time is also a nuisance. Here we develop a comprehensive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 José Luis Bernal , Patrick C. Breysse , Héctor Gil-Marín , Ely D. Kovetz

We present a comprehensive set of forecasts for the cross-correlation signal between 21cm intensity mapping and galaxy redshift surveys. We focus on the data sets that will be provided by the SKAO for the 21cm signal, DESI and Euclid for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-10 Maria Berti , Marta Spinelli , Matteo Viel

The redshifted 21 cm line, arising from neutral hydrogen, offers a unique probe into the intergalactic medium and the first stars and galaxies formed in the early universe. However, detecting this signal is a challenging task because of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Shijie Sun , Jiaqin Xu , Minquan Zhou , Shenzhe Xu , Fengquan Wu , Haoran Zhang , Juyong Zhang , Bin Ma , Zhaohui Shang , Xuelei Chen

The Planck satellite has detected cluster candidates via the Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, but the optical follow-up required to confirm these candidates is still incomplete, especially at high redshifts and for SZ detections at low…

The peculiar motion of galaxies can be a particularly sensitive probe of gravitational collapse. As such, it can be used to measure the dynamics of dark matter and dark energy as well the nature of the gravitational laws at play on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Alvise Raccanelli , Philip Bull , Stefano Camera , David Bacon , Chris Blake , Olivier Dore , Pedro Ferreira , Roy Maartens , Mario Santos , Matteo Viel , Gong-bo Zhao

We introduce an emulator-based method to model the cross-correlation between cosmological voids and galaxies. This allows us to model the effect of cosmology on void finding and on the shape of the void-galaxy cross-correlation function,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Tristan S. Fraser , Enrique Paillas , Will J. Percival , Seshadri Nadathur , Slađana Radinović , Hans A. Winther

Cosmic Microwave Background experiments from COBE to Planck, have launched cosmology into an era of precision science, where many cosmological parameters are now determined to the percent level. Next generation telescopes, focussing on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Claude J. Schmit , Alan F. Heavens , Jonathan R. Pritchard

The future 21 cm intensity mapping observations constitute a promising way to trace the matter distribution of the Universe and probe cosmology. Here we assess its capability for cosmological constraints using as a case study the BINGO…

HI 21~cm absorption spectroscopy provides an excellent probe of the neutral gas content of absorbing galaxies, yielding information on their kinematics, mass, physical size and ISM conditions. The high sensitivity, unrivaled frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Kanekar , F. H. Briggs

This paper introduces the Hidden Valley simulations, a set of trillion-particle N-body simulations in gigaparsec volumes aimed at intensity mapping science. We present details of the simulations and their convergence, then specialize to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-19 Chirag Modi , Emanuele Castorina , Yu Feng , Martin White

The expansion of the universe causes spacetime curvature, distinguishing between distances measured along and transverse to the line of sight. The ratio of these distances, e.g. the cosmic shear distortion of a sphere defined by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric V. Linder

We present a framework for forecasting cosmological constraints from future neutral hydrogen intensity mapping experiments at low to intermediate redshifts. In the process, we establish a simple way of comparing such surveys with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-08 Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira , Prina Patel , Mario G. Santos

The apparent anisotropies of the galaxy clustering in observable redshift space provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously probe cosmic expansion and gravity on cosmological scales via the Alcock--Paczynski effect and redshift-space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-25 Yong-Seon Song , Atsushi Taruya , Akira Oka

We present a code to generate mock observations of 21 cm intensity mapping experiments. The emphasis of the code is on reducing the computational cost of running a full-blown simulation, trading computational time for accuracy. The code can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 David Alonso , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos

Because the transformation from distance to redshift is nonlinear, maps in redshift space become increasingly distorted as the redshift z becomes greater. As noted by Alcock \& Paczy\'nski (1979), observed redshift distortions can be used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Barbara Ryden

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

The 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization should be observed within the next decade. While a simple statistical detection is expected with SKA pathfinders, the SKA will hopefully produce a full 3D mapping of the signal. To extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-28 Hayato Shimabukuro , Benoit Semelin