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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…

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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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique with a unique potential to probe a wide range of scales and redshifts. Realizing the full potential of LIM, however, relies on accurate modeling of the signal. We introduce an extended…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Farnik Nikakhtar , Garrett K. Keating , Emanuele Castorina

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

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…

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 is an emerging technique which promises new insights into the evolution of the Universe, from star formation at low redshifts to the epoch of reionization and cosmic dawn. It measures the integrated emission of atomic…

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

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

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

Line-intensity mapping of the 21cm line is a powerful probe of large scale structure at z<6, tracing large-scale structure via neutral hydrogen content that is found within galaxies. In principle, it enables cost-efficient surveys of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Adrian Liu , Simon Foreman , Hamsa Padmanabhan , H. Cynthia Chiang , Seth Siegel , Dallas Wulf , Jonathan Sievers , Matt Dobbs , Keith Vanderlinde

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 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

Line-intensity mapping (IM) experiments seek to perform statistical measurements of large-scale structure with spectral lines such as 21cm, CO, and Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$). A challenge in these observations is to ensure that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Eli Visbal , Matthew McQuinn

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is emerging as a powerful probe of the high-redshift Universe, with a growing number of LIM experiments targeting various spectral lines deep into the epochs of reionization and cosmic dawn. A key remaining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Sarah Libanore , Julian B. Munoz , Ely D. Kovetz

The line intensity mapping technique involves measuring the cumulative emission from specific spectral lines emitted by galaxies and intergalactic gas. This method provides a way to study the matter distribution and the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-30 Anirban Roy , Andrea Lapi

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

We forecast the ability of future-generation experiments to detect the fine-structure lines of the carbon and oxygen ions, [CII] and [OIII] in intensity mapping (IM) from the Epoch of Reionization ($z \sim 6-8$). Combining the latest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Patrick Breysse , Adam Lidz , Eric R. Switzer

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