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We report the first direct detection of the cosmological power spectrum using the intensity signal from 21-cm emission of neutral hydrogen (HI), derived from interferometric observations with the L-band receivers of the new MeerKAT radio…

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Intensity mapping (IM) with neutral hydrogen is a promising avenue to probe the large scale structure of the Universe. In this paper, we demonstrate that using the 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope as a connected interferometer, it is…

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Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) surveys are considered a promising tool for investigating the expansion history of the Universe. In this work, we explore the potential of MeerKAT HI IM observations in interferometer mode to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Ming Zhang , Yichao Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The turnover at the peak of the Fourier matter power spectrum encodes a fundamental signature of matter-radiation equality in the early Universe. This delivers a potential standard ruler, independent of baryon acoustic oscillations and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Yolanda Dube , Bikash R. Dinda , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

HI intensity mapping (IM) is a novel technique capable of mapping the large-scale structure of the Universe in three dimensions and delivering exquisite constraints on cosmology, by using HI as a biased tracer of the dark matter density…

We present a detection of correlated clustering between MeerKAT radio intensity maps and galaxies from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We find a $7.7\sigma$ detection of the cross-correlation power spectrum, the amplitude of which is…

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

We conduct the first case study towards developing optimal foreground mitigation strategies for neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping using radio interferometers at low redshifts. A pipeline for simulation, foreground mitigation and power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-08 Zhaoting Chen , Laura Wolz , Richard Battye

The first direct measurements of the HI intensity mapping power spectrum were recently made using the MeerKAT telescope. These measurements are on nonlinear scales, at redshifts 0.32 and 0.44. We develop a formalism for modelling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Roy Maartens , Obinna Umeh , Stefano Camera

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…

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$^2$…

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

We present a simulation-based framework to forecast the HI power spectrum on non-linear scales ($k\gtrsim 1\ {\rm Mpc^{-1}}$), as measured by interferometer arrays like MeerKAT in the low-redshift ($z\leq 1.0$) universe. Building on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Zhixing Li , Laura Wolz , Hong Guo , Steven Cunnington , Yi Mao

We present the first results of the HI intensity mapping power spectrum analysis with the MeerKAT International GigaHertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. We use data covering $\sim$4 square degrees in the COSMOS field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Aishrila Mazumder , Laura Wolz , Zhaoting Chen , Sourabh Paul , Mario Santos , Matt Jarvis , Junaid Townsend , Srikrishna Sekhar , Russ Taylor

We derive expressions for the survey-window convolved galaxy power spectrum in real space for a full sky and deep redshift survey, but taking into account the geometrical lightcone effect. We investigate the impact of using the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Daniel Pryer , Robert E. Smith , Robin Booth , Chris Blake , Alexander Eggemeier , Jon Loveday

We investigate the prospects of measuring the cosmic magnification effect by cross-correlating neutral hydrogen intensity mapping (HI IM) maps with background optical galaxies. We forecast the signal-to-noise ratio for HI IM data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Amadeus Witzemann , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Mario G. Santos

We forecast constraints on neutral hydrogen (HI) and cosmological parameters using near-term intensity mapping surveys with instruments such as BINGO, MeerKAT, and the SKA, and Stage III and IV optical galaxy surveys. If foregrounds and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-25 Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon , Robert Crittenden

Neutral hydrogen (HI) $21$-cm intensity mapping (IM) is a promising probe of the large-scale structures in the Universe. However, a few orders of magnitude brighter foregrounds obscure the IM signal. Here we use the Tapered Gridded…

Neutral hydrogen ($\rm{HI}$) $21$-cm intensity mapping (IM) offers an efficient technique for mapping the large-scale structures in the universe. We introduce the 'Cross' Tapered Gridded Estimator (Cross TGE), which cross-correlates two…

Cross-correlating neutral hydrogen (HI) 21cm intensity mapping with galaxy surveys provides an effective probe of astrophysical and cosmological information. This work presents a cross-correlation analysis between MeerKAT single-dish HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Yu-Er Jiang , Yan Gong , Qi Xiong , Wenxiang Pei , Yun Liu , Furen Deng , Zi-yan Yuwen , Meng Zhang , Xingchen Zhou , Xuelei Chen , Yin-Zhe Ma , Qi Guo , Bin Yue
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