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Line intensity mapping (LIM) has emerged as a promising tool for probing the 3D large-scale structure through the aggregate emission of spectral lines. The presence of interloper lines poses a crucial challenge in extracting the signal from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-22 Yun-Ting Cheng , Kailai Wang , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging observational technique that is used to observe the universe on large scales at low resolution through spectral line emission. Stacking analyses coadd cutouts of LIM data on positions of known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Ella M. Mansfield , Delaney A. Dunne , Dongwoo T. Chung

The nature of dark matter is a longstanding mystery in cosmology, which can be studied with laboratory or collider experiments, as well as astrophysical and cosmological observations. In this work, we propose realistic and efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 José Luis Bernal , Andrea Caputo , Marc Kamionkowski

We quantify the prospects for using emission lines from rotational transitions of the CO molecule to perform an `intensity mapping' observation at high redshift during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The aim of CO intensity mapping is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Adam Lidz , Steven R. Furlanetto , S. Peng Oh , James Aguirre , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Jonathan R. Pritchard

Intermediate redshifts between galaxy surveys and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) remain unexplored territory. Line intensity mapping (LIM) offers a way to probe the $z\gtrsim 1$ Universe, including the epoch of reionization and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Abhishek S. Maniyar , Emmanuel Schaan , Anthony R. Pullen

Line intensity mapping is emerging as a novel method that can measure the collective intensity fluctuations of atomic/molecular line emission from distant galaxies. Several observational programs with various wavelengths are ongoing and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 Kana Moriwaki , Naoki Yoshida

One of the toughest challenges in modern cosmology is to probe the small scales $k \sim 0.5\,$Mpc$^{-1}$ in the matter power spectrum and clustering. We show that such small scales will be accessible via upcoming line-intensity mapping…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Sarah Libanore , Caner Unal , Debanjan Sarkar , Ely D. Kovetz

Current and future generations of intensity mapping surveys promise dramatic improvements in our understanding of galaxy evolution and large-scale structure. An intensity map provides a census of the cumulative emission from all galaxies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Trevor M. Oxholm , Eric R. Switzer

Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies over cosmic time is one of the foremost goals of astrophysics and cosmology today. The cosmic star formation rate has undergone a dramatic evolution over the course of the last 14…

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) is an emerging technique for probing the large-scale structure (LSS) in the post-reionisation era. This captures the integrated flux of a particular spectral line emission from multiple sources within a patch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Manas Mohit Dosibhatla , Suman Majumdar , Chandra Shekhar Murmu , Samit Kumar Pal , Saswata Dasgupta , Satadru Bag , Abhirup Datta

Sub-millimeter emission lines are important tracers of the cold gas and ionized environments of galaxies and are the targets for future line intensity mapping surveys. Physics-based simulations that predict multiple emission lines arising…

Mapping of multiple lines such as the fine-structure emission from [CII] (157.7 $\mu \text{m}$), [OIII] (52 \& 88.4 $\mu \text{m}$), and rotational emission lines from CO are of particular interest for upcoming line intensity mapping (LIM)…

The epoch of reionization (EoR), marking the Universe's transition from a neutral to ionized state, represents a pivotal phase for understanding the formation of the first stars and galaxies. Intensity mapping of atomic and molecular lines,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-17 Anirban Roy , Anthony Pullen , Patrick C. Breysse , Rachel S. Somerville

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

Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper is a "Probe Class" mission concept for reionization studies of the universe. It will be capable of spectroscopic imaging observations between 0.7 to 6-7 microns in the near-Infrared. The primary observational…

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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is emerging as a powerful technique to map the cosmic large-scale structure and to probe cosmology over a wide range of redshifts and spatial scales. We perform Fisher forecasts to determine the optimal design…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Garrett K. Keating , Kirit S. Karkare , Abigail Crites , Shouvik Roy Choudhury

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

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…