2018

Probing Cosmic Origins with CO and [CII] Emission Lines

Dizgah, Azadeh Moradinezhad, Keating, Garrett K., Fialkov, Anastasia

Understand

Primordial non-Gaussianity is an invaluable window into the physical processes that gave rise to the cosmological structure.

  • The presence of local shape PNG imprints a distinct scale-dependent correction to the bias of dark matter tracers on large scales, which can be effectively probed via the technique of intensity mapping.
  • Considering an upcoming generation of experiments, we demonstrate that intensity mapping of CO and [CII] emission can improve upon the current best constraints from the {\it Planck} satellite.
  • We show that measurement of the CO intensity power spectrum by a hypothetical next stage of the ground-based COMAP experiment can achieve $\sigma(f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}) = 3.4$, and that the proposed CMB satellite mission PIXIE can achieve $\sigma(f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}) = 3.9$ via measurement of [CII] intensity power spectrum.

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