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Visbal & Loeb (2010) have shown that it is possible to measure the clustering of galaxies by cross correlating the cumulative emission from two different spectral lines which originate at the same redshift. Through this cross correlation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Eli Visbal , Hy Trac , Abraham Loeb

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) of emission from star-forming galaxies can be used to measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale as far back as the epoch of reionization. This provides a standard cosmic ruler to constrain the…

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

Intensity mapping (IM) is sensitive to the cumulative line emission of galaxies. As such it represents a promising technique for statistical studies of galaxies fainter than the limiting magnitude of traditional galaxy surveys. The strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Paolo Comaschi , Bin Yue , Andrea Ferrara

Line intensity mapping (LIM) can provide a powerful means to constrain the theory of gravity and the nature of dark energy at low and high redshifts by mapping the large-scale structure (LSS) over many redshift epochs. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Emilio Bellini , Garrett K. Keating

Context: Rotational CO transitions, while acting as a foreground for [C II] line-intensity mapping (LIM) experiments, trace the physical conditions of cold gas in galaxies at lower redshifts. Studying these transitions is also crucial for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Mathilde Van Cuyck , Matthieu Bethermin , Guilaine Lagache , Alexandre Beelen

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos is often quantified using the stellar mass-halo mass (SMHM) relation. Optical and near-infrared imaging surveys have led to a broadly consistent picture of the evolving SMHM relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Andrew B. Newman , Mahdi Qezlou , Nima Chartab , Gwen C. Rudie , Guillermo A. Blanc , Simeon Bird , Andrew J. Benson , Daniel D. Kelson , Brian C. Lemaux

Line intensity mapping is a superb tool to study the collective radiation from early galaxies. However, the method is hampered by the presence of strong foregrounds, mostly produced by low-redshift interloping lines. We present here a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Paolo Comaschi , Andrea Ferrara

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

Intensity mapping (IM) of spectral lines has the potential to revolutionize cosmology by increasing the total number of observed modes by several orders of magnitude compared to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 Jurek B. Bauer , David J. E. Marsh , Renée Hložek , Hamsa Padmanabhan , Alex Laguë

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) is a new observational technique that uses low-resolution observations of line emission to efficiently trace the large-scale structure of the Universe out to high redshift. Common mm/sub-mm emission lines are…

Line intensity maps (LIMs) are in principle sensitive to a large amount of information about faint, distant galaxies which are invisible to conventional surveys. However, actually extracting that information from a confused,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 Daniel N. Pfeffer , Patrick C. Breysse , George Stein

We introduce the Galaxy Intensity Mapping cross-COrrelation estimator (GIMCO), which is a new tomographic estimator for the gravitational lensing potential, based on a combination of intensity mapping (IM) and galaxy number counts. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Mona Jalilvand , Elisabetta Majerotto , Camille Bonvin , Fabien Lacasa , Martin Kunz , Warren Naidoo , Kavilan Moodley

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

Line-intensity mapping (IM) experiments seek to perform statistical measurements of large-scale structure with spectral lines such as 21cm, CO, and Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$). A challenge in these observations is to ensure that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Eli Visbal , Matthew McQuinn

Intensity mapping -- the large-scale mapping of selected spectral lines without resolving individual sources -- is quickly emerging as an efficient way to conduct large cosmological surveys. Multiple surveys covering a variety of lines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hannah Fronenberg , Adrian Liu

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

Intensity mapping of the neutral hydrogen (HI) is a new observational tool that can be used to efficiently map the large-scale structure of the Universe over wide redshift ranges. The power spectrum of the intensity maps contains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 L. Wolz , C. Tonini , C. Blake , J. S. B. Wyithe

Spectral line intensity mapping has been proposed as a promising tool to efficiently probe the cosmic reionization and the large-scale structure. Without detecting individual sources, line intensity mapping makes use of all available…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Yun-Ting Cheng , Tzu-Ching Chang , James Bock , C. Matt Bradford , Asantha Cooray

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…

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