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We characterize the molecular environment of candidate massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) signposted by methanol masers. Single pixel observations of 10 transitions of HCO^+, CO and CS isotopomers were carried out, using the IRAM 30m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Szymczak , A. Bartkiewicz , A. M. S. Richards

Emission line ratios have been essential for determining physical parameters such as gas temperature and density in astrophysical gaseous nebulae. With the advent of panoramic spectroscopic devices, images of regions with emission lines…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. E. Steiner , R. B. Menezes , T. V. Ricci , A. S. Oliveira

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 forward-modeling framework to forecast the galaxies detected in the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) spectroscopic survey and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) HI survey. Starting from the L-Galaxies 2020…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-05 Yingfeng Liu , Furen Deng , Wenxiang Pei , Haitao Miao , Qi Xiong , Shuanghao Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Qi Guo , Yan Gong , Yougang Wang , Xuelei Chen

Line intensity mapping provides a statistical approach to tracing the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. We apply the HI intensity mapping technique to interferometric data from the MeerKAT International GHz-Tiered…

Detecting the line-intensity mapping (LIM) signal from the galaxies of the Epoch of Reionization is an emerging tool to constrain their role in reionization. Ongoing and upcoming experiments target the signal fluctuations across the sky to…

We report observations of 15 high redshift (z = 1-5) galaxies at 350 microns using the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory and SHARC-II array detector. Emission was detected from eight galaxies, for which far-infrared luminosities, star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jingwen Wu , Paul Vanden Bout , Neal Evans , Michael Dunham

Observations of intergalactic neutral hydrogen can provide a wealth of information about structure and galaxy formation, potentially tracing accretion and feedback processes on Mpc scales. Below a column density of NHI ~ 10^19 cm-2, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Attila Popping , Romeel Dave , Robert Braun , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

We present and analyze a series of synthetic galaxy survey fields based on the IllustrisTNG Simulation suite. With the Illustris public data release and JupyterLab service, we generated a set of twelve lightcone catalogs covering areas from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Gregory F. Snyder , Theodore Pena , L. Y. Aaron Yung , Caitlin Rose , Jeyhan Kartaltepe , Harry Ferguson

We use a high-resolution cosmological simulation that includes hydrodynamics, multiphase star formation, and galactic winds to predict the distribution of metal line emission at z~0 from the intergalactic medium (IGM). We focus on two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven Furlanetto , Joop Schaye , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

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

We collected data for two samples of normal and interacting galaxies for a total of 2953 galaxies having fluxes in one or more of the following wavebands: FIR, 21 cm line, CO(1-0) lines and soft X-ray. The large set of data obtained allowed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Casasola , L. Piovan , G. Galletta , D. Bettoni , E. Merlin

We combine a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, tracking atomic and molecular phases of cold gas, with a three-dimensional radiative-transfer and line tracing code to study the sub-mm emission from atomic and molecular species (CO,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Popping , J. P. Pérez-Beaupuits , M. Spaans , S. C. Trager , R. S. Somerville

The evolution of large-scale structure, galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) can be probed by upcoming Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) experiments, which sample in redshift and direction without…

Line emission is strongly dependent on the local environmental conditions in which the emitting tracers reside. In this work, we focus on modelling the CO emission from simulated giant molecular clouds (GMCs), and study the variations in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Camilo H. Peñaloza , Paul C. Clark , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

The current generation of (sub)mm-telescopes has allowed molecular line emission to become a major tool for studying the physical, kinematic, and chemical properties of extragalactic systems, yet exploiting these observations requires a…

With the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), it is now possible to detect spatially extended Lyman alpha emission from individual faint (M_UV ~ -18) galaxies at redshifts, 3 < z < 6, tracing gas out to circum-galactic scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Peter Mitchell , Jérémy Blaizot , Corentin Cadiou , Yohan Dubois , Thibault Garel , Joakim Rosdahl

Context: It has been proposed that H$_2$ near-infrared lines may be excited by cosmic rays and allow for a determination of the cosmic-ray ionization rate in dense gas. One-dimensional models show that measuring both the H$_2$ gas column…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-24 Brandt A. L. Gaches , Shmuel Bialy , Thomas G. Bisbas , Marco Padovani , Daniel Seifried , Stefanie Walch

The low column density gas at the outskirts of galaxies as traced by the 21 cm hydrogen line emission (HI) represents the interface between galaxies and the intergalactic medium, i.e., where galaxies are believed to get their supply of gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Roger Ianjamasimanana , Fabian Walter , W. J. G. de Blok , George H. Heald , Elias Brinks

Intensity mapping of neutral hydrogen (HI) is a promising observational probe of cosmology and large-scale structure. We present wide field simulations of HI intensity maps based on N-body simulations of a $2.6\, {\rm Gpc / h}$ box with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sebastian Seehars , Aseem Paranjape , Amadeus Witzemann , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Joel Akeret