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20152026
most citedConstraints on the Star Formation Efficiency of Galaxies During the Epoch of Reionization

187 citations · 751 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

LIMFAST. V. Probing Reionization with the Synergy Between 21 cm and Photometric Galaxy Surveys

Guochao Sun, Adam Lidz, Tzu-Ching Chang +4

Cross-correlating the 21\,cm signal from intergalactic neutral hydrogen with the galaxy distribution is a powerful probe of the Epoch of Reionization and the physical mechanisms dr…

astro-ph.CO2026

Tracing the Cosmic Origins: Machine Learning Reconstruction of the Primordial Density Field from EoR Observations

Anchal Saxena, P. Daniel Meerburg, Guochao Sun +2

Reconstructing the initial conditions of the Universe from late-time tracers would unlock cosmological information buried by non-linear structure formation and astrophysics. We rec…

astro-ph.GA2026

Searching for Population III stars with line intensity mapping cross-correlations

Sahil Hegde, Guochao Sun, Julian B. Muñoz +1

Decades of searches for Population III stars in individual galaxies have yielded a few potential candidates, but a statistically robust characterization of the demographics of the…

astro-ph.IM2026

TIME Commissioning Observations: II. On-sky Characterization and the 2D Map Data Processing Pipeline

Benjamin J. Vaughan, Abigail T. Crites, Dongwoo T. Chung +24

The Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME) is a line intensity mapping (LIM) instrument that is designed to observe the power spectrum of the [CII] ~m emissio…

astro-ph.IM2025

TIME Commissioning Observations: I. Mapping Dust and Molecular Gas in the Sgr A Molecular Cloud Complex at the Galactic Center

Selina F. Yang, Sophie M. McAtee, Benjamin J. Vaughan +24

We present the processing of an observation of Sagittarius A (Sgr A) with the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), part of the 2021-2022 commissioning run to verif…

astro-ph.IM2025

Development of a planar cable-driven parallel robot for submillimeter and terahertz beam mapping measurements

Evan C. Mayer, Ian N. Lowe, Daniel P. Marrone +20

The spatial sensitivity pattern of millimeter-wavelength receivers is an important diagnostic of performance and is affected by the alignment of coupling optics. Characterization c…

astro-ph.GA2025

LIMFAST. IV. Learning High-Redshift Galaxy Formation from Multiline Intensity Mapping with Implicit Likelihood Inference

Guochao Sun, Tri Nguyen, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère +5

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

LIMFAST. III. Timing Cosmic Reionization with the 21 cm and Near-Infrared Backgrounds

Guochao Sun, Adam Lidz, Tzu-Ching Chang +2

The timeline of cosmic reionization remains uncertain despite sustained efforts to study how the ionizing output of early galaxies shaped the intergalactic medium (IGM). Using the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Constraining bursty star formation histories with galaxy UV and H luminosity functions and clustering

Guochao Sun, Julian B. Muñoz, Jordan Mirocha +1

The observed prevalence of galaxies exhibiting bursty star formation histories (SFHs) at has created new challenges and opportunities for understanding their formation…

astro-ph.GA2024

Effects of Bursty Star Formation on [CII] Line Intensity Mapping of High-redshift Galaxies

Lun-Jun Liu, Guochao Sun, Tzu-Ching Chang +2

Bursty star formation -- a key prediction for high-redshift galaxies from cosmological simulations explicitly resolving stellar feedback in the interstellar medium -- has recently…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Bursty Star Formation Naturally Explains the Abundance of Bright Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn

Guochao Sun, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Christopher C. Hayward +3

Recent discoveries of a significant population of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn have enabled critical tests of cosmological galaxy formation models. In…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Probing bursty star formation by cross-correlating extragalactic background light and galaxy surveys

Guochao Sun, Adam Lidz, Andreas L. Faisst +1

Understanding the star formation rate (SFR) variability and how it depends on physical properties of galaxies is important for developing and testing the theory of galaxy formation…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Seen and unseen: bursty star formation and its implications for observations of high-redshift galaxies with JWST

Guochao Sun, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Christopher C. Hayward +1

Both observations and simulations have shown strong evidence for highly time-variable star formation in low-mass and/or high-redshift galaxies, which has important observational im…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Boosting Line Intensity Map Signal-to-Noise with the Ly- Forest Cross-Correlation

Mahdi Qezlou, Simeon Bird, Adam Lidz +6

We forecast the prospects for cross-correlating future line intensity mapping (LIM) surveys with the current and future Ly- forest data. We use large cosmological hydrodynamic s…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 23 cited

LIMFAST. II. Line Intensity Mapping as a Probe of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation

Guochao Sun, Lluís Mas-Ribas, Tzu-Ching Chang +5

The epoch of reionization (EoR) offers a unique window into the dawn of galaxy formation, through which high-redshift galaxies can be studied by observations of both themselves and…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 22 cited

LIMFAST. I. A Semi-Numerical Tool for Line Intensity Mapping

Lluís Mas-Ribas, Guochao Sun, Tzu-Ching Chang +2

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. LI…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 8 cited

Cosmological Constraints on the Global Star Formation Law of Galaxies: Insights From Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Intensity Mapping

Guochao Sun

Originally proposed as a cosmological probe of the large-scale structure, line intensity mapping (LIM) also offers a unique window into the astrophysics of galaxy evolution. Adding…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 38 cited

The early Universe was dust-rich and extremely hot

Marco P. Viero, Guochao Sun, Dongwoo T. Chung +2

We investigate the dust properties and star-formation signature of galaxies in the early universe by stacking 111227 objects in the recently released COSMOS catalogue on maps at wa…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 21 cited

Probing Population III Initial Mass Functions with He II/H Intensity Mapping

Jasmine Parsons, Lluis Mas-Ribas, Guochao Sun +3

We demonstrate the potential of line-intensity mapping to place constraints on the initial mass function (IMF) of Population III stars via measurements of the mean He II 1640A/H…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

Revealing the formation histories of the first stars with the cosmic near-infrared background

Guochao Sun, Jordan Mirocha, Richard H. Mebane +1

The cosmic near-infrared background (NIRB) offers a powerful integral probe of radiative processes at different cosmic epochs, including the pre-reionization era when metal-free, P…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 27 cited

Future Constraints on the Reionization History and the Ionizing Sources from Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows

Adam Lidz, Tzu-Ching Chang, Lluís Mas-Ribas +1

We forecast the reionization history constraints, inferred from Lyman-alpha damping wing absorption features, for a future sample of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afte…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 50 cited

Probing Cosmic Reionization and Molecular Gas Growth with TIME

Guochao Sun, Tzu-Ching Chang, Bade D. Uzgil +23

Line intensity mapping (LIM) provides a unique and powerful means to probe cosmic structures by measuring the aggregate line emission from all galaxies across redshift. The method…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 52 cited

A Self-consistent Framework for Multiline Modeling in Line Intensity Mapping Experiments

Guochao Sun, Brandon S. Hensley, Tzu-Ching Chang +2

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising approach to study star formation and the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies by measuring the aggregate line emission from the entire…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 7 cited

Tomography of the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Eras with Multiple Tracers

Tzu-Ching Chang, Angus Beane, Olivier Dore +41

The Cosmic Dawn and Reionization epochs remain a fundamental but challenging frontier of astrophysics and cosmology. We advocate a large-scale, multi-tracer approach to develop a c…