Speaker
Description
Line Intensity Mapping, LIM, is an emerging observational technique that measures the integrated emission from galaxies as fluctuations in a 3D cosmic volume. By doing so, it aims to fill a key gap in studies of cosmology and galaxy formation – LIM data cubes are sensitive to the emission from all galaxies in a population, even the very faintest. LIM experiments can thus study the evolution of galaxy tracers (for example, molecular gas) throughout cosmic time without being limited to the brightest objects and in a way that scales efficiently to very large cosmic volumes. In this talk, I will discuss COMAP (the CO Mapping Array Project), a LIM experiment targeting dense molecular gas in galaxies via their CO$(1-0)$ emission at redshifts spanning from the peak of cosmic star formation to the Epoch of Reionization. I will discuss COMAP’s field-leading constraints on the CO power spectrum at $z\sim 3$, and the range of analysis techniques currently being used to further constrain high-redshift CO.
| Would you be interested in presenting a poster if the conference is oversubcribed? | Yes |
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