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The cross-correlation of optical galaxies with the neutral hydrogen (HI) radiation intensity can enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the HI intensity measurement. In this paper, we investigate the cross-correlation of the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Furen Deng , Yan Gong , Yougang Wang , Shuting Dong , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen

In order to investigate discrepancies between recent published estimates of the the HI mass function (HIMF), we explore the impact of distance uncertainties on the derivation of the faint end slope of mass and luminosity functions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Karen L. Masters , Martha P. Haynes , Riccardo Giovanelli

Accurate optical redshifts will be critical for spectral co-adding techniques used to extract detections from below the noise level in ongoing and upcoming surveys for HI, which will extend our current understanding of gas reservoirs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Natasha Maddox , Kelley M. Hess , S. -L. Blyth , M. J. Jarvis

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has started the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS). In this paper, we use the technical parameters of FAST derived from commissioning observations to simulate the…

We present the first HI mass function (HIMF) measurement for the recent FAST All Sky HI (FASHI) survey and the most complete measurements of HIMF in the local universe thus far. We obtained these results by combining the HI catalogues from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-28 Wenlin Ma , Hong Guo , Haojie Xu , Michael G. Jones , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Ming Zhu , Jing Wang , Jie Wang , Peng Jiang

Precision cosmology requires accurate galaxy redshifts, but next generation optical surveys will observe unprecedented numbers of resolved galaxies, placing strain on the amount of spectroscopic follow-up required. We show how useful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Steven Cunnington , Ian Harrison , Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon

We present the neutral hydrogen mass ($M_{\text{HI}}$) function (HIMF) and velocity width ($w_{50}$) function (HIWF) based on a sample of 7857 galaxies from the 40% data release of the ALFALFA survey ($\alpha.40$). The low mass (velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Saili Dutta , Nishikanta Khandai , Sandeep Rana

Much of our current understanding of neutral, atomic gas in galaxies comes from radio observations of the nearby Universe. Until the next generation of instruments allow us to push to much higher redshifts, we must rely mostly upon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-02 E. C. Elson , S. L. Blyth , A. J. Baker

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a drift-scan interferometer designed to map the entire northern sky every 24 hours. The all-sky coverage and sensitivity to neutral hydrogen flux at intermediate redshifts makes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Ava Polzin , Laura Newburgh , Priyamvada Natarajan , Hsiao-Wen Chen

We present the HI galaxy observation results of the FATHOMER (FAst neuTral HydrOgen intensity Mapping ExpeRiment), a pilot drift scan survey by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The survey comprises 28 hours…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Shuanghao Shu , Yichao Li , Wenxiu Yang , Jiaxin Wang , Wenkai Hu , Furen Deng , Shifan Zuo , Yougang Wang , Xuelei Chen

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 study the clustering of HI intensity maps produced from simulations with a focus on baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the effects induced by telescope beam smoothing and foreground cleaning. We start by creating a HI catalogue at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Santiago Avila , Bernhard Vos-Ginés , Steven Cunnington , Adam R. H. Stevens , Gustavo Yepes , Alexander Knebe , Chia-Hsun Chuang

Using a spectral stacking technique, we measure the neutral hydrogen (HI) properties of a sample of galaxies at $z < 0.11$ across 35 pointings of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). The radio data contains 1,895 galaxies with…

We present a novel 2D flux density model for observed HI emission lines combined with a Bayesian stacking technique to measure the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation below the nominal detection threshold. We simulate a galaxy catalogue, which…

Aims. The main goal of this paper is to derive observational constraints on the halo mass fuction (HMF) by performing a tomographic analysis of the magnification bias signal on a sample of background submillimeter galaxies. The results can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 M. M. Cueli , L. Bonavera , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , D. Crespo , J. M. Casas , A. Lapi

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST) is expected to complete its commissioning in 2019. FAST will soon begin the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey(CRAFTS), a novel and unprecedented commensal drift scan survey…

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

The FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS) is a blind survey that aims for the direct detection of HI in galaxies at redshifts $z<0.42$. The survey uses the multibeam receiver on the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to map six…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Hongwei Xi , Bo Peng , Lister Staveley-Smith , Bi-Qing For , Bin Liu

The galaxy Luminosity Function (LF) is a key observable for galaxy formation, evolution studies and for cosmology. In this work, we propose a novel technique to forward model wide-field broad-band galaxy surveys using the fast image…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Luca Tortorelli , Martina Fagioli , Jörg Herbel , Adam Amara , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier

The mean and the scatter of the HI content of a dark-matter halo as a function of the halo mass are useful statistics that can be used to test models of structure and galaxy formation. We investigate the possibility of constraining this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-21 Benedetta Spina , Cristiano Porciani , Carlo Schimd