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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

We present our methods for generating a catalog of 7,000 synthetic images and 40,000 integrated spectra of redshift z = 0 galaxies from the Illustris Simulation. The mock data products are produced by using stellar population synthesis…

We present a numerical code to simulate maps of Galactic emission in intensity and polarization at microwave frequencies, aiding in the design of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. This Python code builds on existing efforts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Sigurd Naess

We investigate emission line galaxies across cosmic time by combining the modified L-Galaxies semi-analytical galaxy formation model with the JiuTian cosmological simulation. We improve the tidal disruption model of satellite galaxies in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-02 Wenxiang Pei , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Qiao Wang , Jiaxin Han , Jia Hu , Tong Su , Liang Gao , Jie Wang , Yu Luo , Chengliang Wei

We present a simple, largely empirical but physically motivated model, which is designed to interpret consistently multi-wavelength observations from large samples of galaxies in terms of physical parameters, such as star formation rate,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Elisabete da Cunha , Stephane Charlot , David Elbaz

We present an empirical model of Comptonization for fitting the spectra of X-ray binaries. This model, "simpl", has been developed as a package implemented in XSPEC. With only two free parameters, simpl is competitive as the simplest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 James F. Steiner , Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock , Ken Ebisawa

The power spectrum and voxel intensity distribution (VID) are two summary statistics that can be applied to condense the information encoded in line-intensity maps. The information contained in both summary statistics is highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Vivian I. Sabla , José Luis Bernal , Gabriela Sato-Polito , Marc Kamionkowski

Detecting the line-intensity mapping (LIM) signal from the galaxies of the Epoch of Reionization is an emerging tool to constrain their role in reionization. Ongoing and upcoming experiments target the signal fluctuations across the sky to…

Clustering of Ly$\alpha$-emitting galaxies (LAEs) and Ly$\alpha$ line intensity mapping (LIM) are useful probes of cosmology. However, Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer (RT) effects, such as absorption, line shift, and line broadening, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Maja Lujan Niemeyer

We present the Swift Analysis Pipeline for Lightcurve Extraction (SAPLE), a semi-automated pipeline to extract the Swift-UVOT and Swift-XRT data products and spectral information (magnitudes, photon indices, and fluxes) for a set of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Lea Marcotulli , Núria Torres-Albà

We present a catalog of emission-line galaxies selected solely by their emission-line fluxes using a wide-field integral field spectrograph. This work is partially motivated as a pilot survey for the upcoming Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark…

Line-Intensity Mapping (LIM) has emerged as a powerful technique for studying large-scale structure and the high-redshift universe, enabling three-dimensional maps of line emission across vast cosmological volumes. In this review, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Tzu-Ching Chang , Adam Lidz

We present an algorithm to self-consistently generate mock weak gravitational lensing convergence fields and galaxy distributions in redshift space. We generate three-dimensional cosmic density fields that follow a log-normal distribution,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Ryu Makiya , Issha Kayo , Eiichiro Komatsu

Constraining the properties of Population III (Pop III) stars will be very challenging because they reside in small galaxies at high redshift which will be difficult to directly detect. In this paper, we suggest that intensity mapping may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-01 Eli Visbal , Zoltan Haiman , Greg L. Bryan

CONCERTO is the first experiment to perform a [CII] line intensity mapping survey to target $z>5.2$. Measuring the [CII] power spectrum allows us to study the role of dusty star-forming galaxies in the star formation history during the…

We present MCSED, a new spectral energy distribution (SED)-fitting code, which mates flexible stellar evolution calculations with the Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms of the software package emcee. MCSED takes broad, intermediate, and…

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

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

This paper introduces EGG, the Empirical Galaxy Generator, a tool designed within the ASTRODEEP collaboration to generate mock galaxy catalogs for deep fields with realistic fluxes and simple morphologies. The simulation procedure is based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 C. Schreiber , D. Elbaz , M. Pannella , E. Merlin , M. Castellano , A. Fontana , N. Bourne , K. Boutsia , F. Cullen , J. Dunlop , H. C. Ferguson , M. J. Michalowski , K. Okumura , P. Santini , X. W. Shu , T. Wang , C. White

The accuracy and robustness of a simple method to estimate the total mass profile of a galaxy is tested using a sample of 65 cosmological zoom-simulations of individual galaxies. The method only requires information on the optical surface…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Lyskova , E. Churazov , I. Zhuravleva , T. Naab , L. Oser , O. Gerhard , X. Wu