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astro-ph.CO2021★ 64 cited

COMAP Early Science: I. Overview

Kieran A. Cleary, Jowita Borowska, Patrick C. Breysse +40

The CO Mapping Array Project (COMAP) aims to use line intensity mapping of carbon monoxide (CO) to trace the distribution and global properties of galaxies over cosmic time, back t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 33 cited

COMAP Early Science: VII. Prospects for CO Intensity Mapping at Reionization

Patrick C. Breysse, Dongwoo T. Chung, Kieran A. Cleary +29

We introduce COMAP-EoR, the next generation of the Carbon Monoxide Mapping Array Project aimed at extending CO intensity mapping to the Epoch of Reionization. COMAP-EoR supplements…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Synergies between the COMAP CO Line Intensity Mapping mission and a Lyα galaxy survey: How to probe the early universe with voxel based analysis of observational data

Marta B. Silva, Bernhard Baumschlager, Kieran A. Cleary +7

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) offers a novel avenue to observe and characterize our universe. LIM data of CO spectral lines are becoming available, such as those obtained by the CO…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 37 cited

COMAP Early Science: V. Constraints and Forecasts at

Dongwoo T. Chung, Patrick C. Breysse, Kieran A. Cleary +34

We present the current state of models for the carbon monoxide (CO) line-intensity signal targeted by the CO Mapping Array Project (COMAP) Pathfinder in the context of its…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 26 cited

A model of spectral line broadening in signal forecasts for line-intensity mapping experiments

Dongwoo T. Chung, Patrick C. Breysse, Håvard Tveit Ihle +15

Line-intensity mapping observations will find fluctuations of integrated line emission are attenuated by varying degrees at small scales due to the width of the line emission profi…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 14 cited

Detecting the neutral IGM in filaments with the SKA

Robin Kooistra, Marta B. Silva, Saleem Zaroubi +3

The intergalactic medium (IGM) plays an important role in the formation and evolution of galaxies. Recent developments in upcoming radio telescopes are starting to open up the poss…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 39 cited

Microwave Spectro-Polarimetry of Matter and Radiation across Space and Time

Jacques Delabrouille, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Nabila Aghanim +77

This paper discusses the science case for a sensitive spectro-polarimetric survey of the microwave sky. Such a survey would provide a tomographic and dynamic census of the three-di…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 2 cited

Mapping Large-Scale-Structure Evolution over Cosmic Times

Marta B. Silva, Ely D. Kovetz, Garrett K. Keating +6

This paper outlines the science case for line-intensity mapping with a space-borne instrument targeting the sub-millimeter (microwaves) to the far-infrared (FIR) wavelength range.…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 18 cited

CDIM: Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper Final Report

Asantha Cooray, Tzu-Ching Chang, Stephen Unwin +23

The Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper (CDIM) will transform our understanding of the era of reionization when the Universe formed the first stars and galaxies, and UV photons ionized th…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 42 cited

Astrophysics and Cosmology with Line-Intensity Mapping

Ely D. Kovetz, Patrick C. Breysse, Adam Lidz +9

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 an…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 6 cited

Cosmic Dawn and Reionization: Astrophysics in the Final Frontier

Asantha Cooray, James Aguirre, Yacine Ali-Haimoud +71

The cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization mark the time period in the universe when stars, galaxies, and blackhole seeds first formed and the intergalactic medium changed from neut…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 6 cited

Multi-Component Decomposition of Cosmic Infrared Background Fluctuations

Chang Feng, Asantha Cooray, Jamie Bock +5

The near-infrared background between 0.5 m to 2 m contains a wealth of information related to radiative processes in the universe. Infrared background anisotropies encode the…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 32 cited

Tomographic Intensity Mapping versus Galaxy Surveys: Observing the Universe in H-alpha emission with new generation instruments

Marta B. Silva, Saleem Zaroubi, Robin Kooistra +1

The H-alpha line emission is an important probe for a number of fundamental quantities in galaxies, including their number density, star formation rate (SFR) and overall gas conten…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 290 cited

Upper limits on the 21-cm Epoch of Reionization power spectrum from one night with LOFAR

A. H. Patil, S. Yatawatta, L. V. E. Koopmans +25

We present the first limits on the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm HI power spectra, in the redshift range , using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) High-Band Antenna (…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 12 cited

Filament Hunting: Integrated HI 21cm Emission From Filaments Inferred by Galaxy Surveys

Robin Kooistra, Marta B. Silva, Saleem Zaroubi

Large scale filaments, with lengths that can reach tens of Mpc, are the most prominent features in the cosmic web. These filaments have only been observed indirectly through the po…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 56 cited

A Foreground Masking Strategy for [CII] Intensity Mapping Experiments Using Galaxies Selected by Stellar Mass and Redshift

Guochao Sun, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Marco P. Viero +11

Intensity mapping provides a unique means to probe the epoch of reionization (EoR), when the neutral intergalactic medium was ionized by the energetic photons emitted from the firs…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 52 cited

Intensity mapping of H-alpha, H-beta, [OII] and [OIII] lines at z<5

Yan Gong, Asantha Cooray, Marta B. Silva +5

Intensity mapping is now becoming a useful tool to study the large-scale structure of the universe through spatial variations in the integrated emission from galaxies and the inter…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 69 cited

Cosmology with intensity mapping techniques using atomic and molecular lines

José Fonseca, Marta B. Silva, Mário G. Santos +1

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…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 13 cited

Mapping the low surface brightness Universe in the UV band with Lya emission from IGM filaments

Marta B. Silva, Robin Kooistra, Saleem Zaroubi

A large fraction of the baryonic matter in the Universe is located in filaments in the intergalactic medium. However, the low surface brightness of these filaments has not yet allo…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 15 cited

Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper

Asantha Cooray, Jamie Bock, Denis Burgarella +9

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-…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 7 cited

Synergy of CO/[CII]/Ly Line Intensity Mapping with the SKA

Tzu-Ching Chang, Yan Gong, Mario Santos +4

We present the science enabled by cross-correlations of the SKA1-LOW 21-cm EoR surveys with other line mapping programs. In particular, we identify and investigate potential synerg…

astro-ph.CO2015

HI galaxy simulations for the SKA: number counts and bias

Mario G. Santos, David Alonso, Philip Bull +2

This chapter describes the assumed specifications and sensitivities for HI galaxy surveys with SKA1 and SKA2. It addresses the expected galaxy number densities based on available s…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 9 cited

Prospects for detecting CII emission during the Epoch of Reionization

Marta B. Silva, Mário G. santos, Asantha Cooray +1

We produce simulations of emission of the atomic CII line in large sky fields in order to determine the current prospects for mapping this line during the high redshift Epoch of Re…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 9 cited

Future mmVLBI Research with ALMA: A European vision

R. P. J. Tilanus, T. P. Krichbaum, J. A. Zensus +165

Very long baseline interferometry at millimetre/submillimetre wavelengths (mmVLBI) offers the highest achievable spatial resolution at any wavelength in astronomy. The anticipated…