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Neutral Hydrogen Intensity Mapping (HI IM) surveys will be a powerful new probe of cosmology. However, strong astrophysical foregrounds contaminate the signal and their coupling with instrumental systematics further increases the data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Marta Spinelli , Isabella P. Carucci , Steven Cunnington , Stuart E. Harper , Melis O. Irfan , José Fonseca , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Laura Wolz

Removing contaminants is a delicate, yet crucial step in neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping and often considered the technique's greatest challenge. Here, we address this challenge by analysing HI intensity maps of about $100$ deg$^2$…

Potential evidence for primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is expected to lie in the largest scales mapped by cosmological surveys. Forthcoming 21cm intensity mapping experiments will aim to probe these scales by surveying neutral hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-20 Steven Cunnington , Stefano Camera , Alkistis Pourtsidou

The bispectrum is a 3-point statistic with the potential to provide additional information beyond power spectra analyses of survey datasets. Radio telescopes which broadly survey the 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) are a promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Steven Cunnington , Catherine Watkinson , Alkistis Pourtsidou

Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping with single-dish experiments is a powerful approach for probing cosmology in the post-reionization epoch. However, the presence of bright foregrounds over four orders of magnitude stronger than the HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Athanasia Gkogkou , Victor Bonjean , Jean-Luc Starck , Marta Spinelli , Panagiotis Tsakalides

HI intensity mapping is an emerging tool to probe dark energy. Observations of the redshifted HI signal will be contaminated by instrumental noise, atmospheric and Galactic foregrounds. The latter is expected to be four orders of magnitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , C. Dickinson , R. A. Battye , I. W. A. Browne , Y. -Z. Ma , B. Maffei , F. Noviello , M. Remazeilles , P. N. Wilkinson

Neutral hydrogen intensity mapping can in principle deliver rapid and large-volume cosmological surveys with exquisitely accurate redshifts that are determined directly from imaging. However, intensity maps suffer from very strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Rahul Kothari , Roy Maartens

The success of HI intensity mapping is largely dependent on how well 21cm foreground contamination can be controlled. In order to progress our understanding further, we present a range of simulated foreground data from four different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 Steven Cunnington , Melis O. Irfan , Isabella P. Carucci , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Jérôme Bobin

In the neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) survey, the foreground contamination on the cosmological signals is extremely severe, and the systematic effects caused by radio telescopes themselves further aggravate the difficulties in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-28 Shulei Ni , Yichao Li , Li-Yang Gao , Xin Zhang

Foreground removal presents a significant obstacle in both current and forthcoming intensity mapping surveys. While numerous techniques have been developed that show promise in simulated datasets, their efficacy often diminishes when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Jiacheng Ding , Xin Wang , Ue-Li Pen , Xiao-Dong Li

The future of precision cosmology could benefit from cross-correlations between intensity maps of unresolved neutral hydrogen (HI) and more conventional optical galaxy surveys. A major challenge that needs to be overcome is removing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Steven Cunnington , Laura Wolz , Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon

Blind cleaning methods are currently the preferred strategy for handling foreground contamination in single-dish HI intensity mapping surveys. Despite the increasing sophistication of blind techniques, some signal loss will be inevitable…

Intensity mapping experiments survey the spectrum of diffuse line radiation rather than detect individual objects at high signal-to-noise. Spectral maps of unresolved atomic and molecular line radiation contain three-dimensional information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 Eric R. Switzer , Tzu-Ching Chang , Kiyoshi W. Masui , Ue-Li Pen , Tabitha C. Voytek

Intensity Mapping (IM) of the 21-cm line of the neutral hydrogen (\textsc{Hi}) has become a compelling new technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. One of the main challenges is the presence of strong foreground emissions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Bianca De Caro , Isabella P. Carucci , Stefano Camera , Mathieu Remazeilles , Carmelita Carbone

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

Intensity mapping has attracted significant interest as an approach to measure the properties of the interstellar medium in typical galaxies at high redshift. Intensity mapping measures the statistics of surface brightness as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 E. R. Switzer , C. J. Anderson , A. R. Pullen , S. Yang

\textsc{Hi} intensity mapping will provide maps of the large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen (\textsc{Hi}) in the universe. These are prime candidates to be used to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity using the Large Scale Structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 José Fonseca , Michele Liguori

21-cm intensity mapping (IM) is a powerful technique to probe the large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) and extract cosmological information such as the baryon acoustic oscillation feature. A key challenge lies in recovering the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Zitong Wang , Feng Shi , Le Zhang , Yanming Liu , Xiaoping Li , Shulei Ni , Ming Jiang , Xiaofan Ma

We use full sky simulations, including the effects of foreground contamination and removal, to explore multi-tracer synergies between a SKA-like 21cm intensity mapping survey and a LSST-like photometric galaxy redshift survey. In particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Amadeus Witzemann , David Alonso , José Fonseca , Mario G. Santos

One of the primary targets of third-generation (3G) ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors is detecting the stochastic GW background (SGWB) from early universe processes. The astrophysical foreground from compact binary mergers will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang
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