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Line intensity mapping (LIM) serves as a potent probe in astrophysics, relying on the statistical analysis of integrated spectral line emissions originating from distant star-forming galaxies. While LIM observations hold the promise of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Anirban Roy , Nicholas Battaglia

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a new technique for tracing the global properties of galaxies over cosmic time. Detection of the very faint signals from redshifted carbon monoxide (CO), a tracer of star formation, pushes the limits of what…

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising observational method to probe large-scale fluctuations of line emission from distant galaxies. Data from wide-field LIM observations allow us to study the large-scale structure of the universe as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Kana Moriwaki , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

Infrared fine-structure emission lines from trace metals are powerful diagnostics of the interstellar medium in galaxies. We explore the possibility of studying the redshifted far-IR fine-structure line emission using the three-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Bade D. Uzgil , James E. Aguirre , Charles M. Bradford , Adam Lidz

By opening up new avenues to statistically constrain astrophysics and cosmology with large-scale structure observations, the line intensity mapping (LIM) technique calls for novel tools for efficient forward modeling and inference. Implicit…

The H-alpha line emission is an important probe for a number of fundamental quantities in galaxies, including their number density, star formation rate (SFR) and overall gas content. A new generation of low-resolution intensity mapping…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Marta B. Silva , Saleem Zaroubi , Robin Kooistra , Asantha Cooray

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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique to study galaxy formation and cosmology in the high-redshift Universe. We present LIM estimates of select spectral lines originating from the interstellar medium (ISM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-23 Rahul Kannan , Aaron Smith , Enrico Garaldi , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a rapidly emerging technique for constraining cosmology and galaxy formation using multi-frequency, low angular resolution maps. Many LIM applications crucially rely on cross-correlations of two line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Emmanuel Schaan , Martin White

Intensity mapping, which images a single spectral line from unresolved galaxies across cosmological volumes, is a promising technique for probing the early universe. Here we present predictions for the intensity map and power spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Tony Y. Li , Risa H. Wechsler , Kiruthika Devaraj , Sarah E. Church

We present a quantitative model of Lyman-alpha (Ly-alpha) emission throughout cosmic history and determine the prospects for intensity mapping of spatial fluctuations in the Ly-alpha signal. Since i) our model assumes at z>6 the minimum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anthony Pullen , Olivier Dore , Jamie Bock

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 (LIM or IM) is an emerging field of observational work, with strong potential to fit into a larger effort to probe large-scale structure and small-scale astrophysical phenomena using multiple complementary tracers.…

The Line Emission Mapper (LEM) is an X-ray Probe for the 2030s that will answer the outstanding questions of the Universe's structure formation. It will also provide transformative new observing capabilities for every area of astrophysics,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Ralph Kraft , Maxim Markevitch , Caroline Kilbourne , Joseph S. Adams , Hiroki Akamatsu , Mohammadreza Ayromlou , Simon R. Bandler , Marco Barbera , Douglas A. Bennett , Anil Bhardwaj , Veronica Biffi , Dennis Bodewits , Akos Bogdan , Massimiliano Bonamente , Stefano Borgani , Graziella Branduardi-Raymont , Joel N. Bregman , Joseph N. Burchett , Jenna Cann , Jenny Carter , Priyanka Chakraborty , Eugene Churazov , Robert A. Crain , Renata Cumbee , Romeel Dave , Michael DiPirro , Klaus Dolag , W. Bertrand Doriese , Jeremy Drake , William Dunn , Megan Eckart , Dominique Eckert , Stefano Ettori , William Forman , Massimiliano Galeazzi , Amy Gall , Efrain Gatuzz , Natalie Hell , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Caitriona Jackman , Amir Jahromi , Fred Jennings , Christine Jones , Philip Kaaret , Patrick J. Kavanagh , Richard L. Kelley , Ildar Khabibullin , Chang-Goo Kim , Dimitra Koutroumpa , Orsolya Kovacs , K. D. Kuntz , Erwin Lau , Shiu-Hang Lee , Maurice Leutenegger , Sheng-Chieh Lin , Carey Lisse , Ugo Lo Cicero , Lorenzo Lovisari , Dan McCammon , Sean McEntee , Francois Mernier , Eric D. Miller , Daisuke Nagai , Michela Negro , Dylan Nelson , Jan-Uwe Ness , Paul Nulsen , Anna Ogorzalek , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Lidia Oskinova , Daniel Patnaude , Ryan W. Pfeifle , Annalisa Pillepich , Paul Plucinsky , David Pooley , Frederick S. Porter , Scott Randall , Elena Rasia , John Raymond , Mateusz Ruszkowski , Kazuhiro Sakai , Arnab Sarkar , Manami Sasaki , Kosuke Sato , Gerrit Schellenberger , Joop Schaye , Aurora Simionescu , Stephen J. Smith , James F. Steiner , Jonathan Stern , Yuanyuan Su , Ming Sun , Grant Tremblay , Nhut Truong , James Tutt , Eugenio Ursino , Sylvain Veilleux , Alexey Vikhlinin , Stephan Vladutescu-Zopp , Mark Vogelsberger , Stephen A. Walker , Kimberly Weaver , Dale M. Weigt , Jessica Werk , Norbert Werner , Scott J. Wolk , Congyao Zhang , William W. Zhang , Irina Zhuravleva , John ZuHone

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne cryogenic telescope that will survey the spectrum of diffuse emission from both the Milky Way and the cosmic web to probe star formation, the…

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a novel observational technique in astrophysics that utilizes the integrated emission from multiple atomic and molecular transition lines from galaxies to probe the complex physics of galaxy formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-13 Anirban Roy , Nicholas Battaglia , Anthony R. Pullen

We present a systematic study of the intensity mapping technique using updated models for the different emission lines from galaxies and identify which ones are more promising for cosmological studies of the post reionization epoch. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-25 José Fonseca , Marta B. Silva , Mário G. Santos , Asantha Cooray

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument that will survey galaxy and star formation history over cosmological time scales. Rather than identifying individual objects,…

The field of millimetre-wave line-intensity mapping (LIM) is seeing increased experimental activity with pathfinder surveys already deployed or deploying in the next few years, making spectroscopic measurements of unresolved atomic and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Dongwoo T Chung