Research and Development for HI Intensity Mapping

Development of the hardware, data analysis, and simulation techniques for large compact radio arrays dedicated to mapping the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen gas has proven to be more difficult than imagined twenty years ago when such telescopes were first proposed. Despite tremendous technical and methodological advances, there are several outstanding questions on how to optimally calibrate and analyze such data. On the positive side, it has become clear that the outstanding issues are purely technical in nature and can be solved with sufficient development activity. Such activity will enable science across redshifts, from early galaxy evolution in the pre-reionization era to dark energy evolution at low redshift.

David Alonso | Zeeshan Ahmed | Laura B. Newburgh | Kevin Bandura | J. Richard Shaw | Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro | Paul O'Connor | Tzu-Ching Chang | Simone Ferraro | Daniel Jacobs | Yin-Zhe Ma | Benjamin Saliwanchik | Lloyd Knox | Romeel Dav'e | Adam Beardsley | Erin Sheldon | Adrian Liu | David Rapetti | David Parkinson | Mustafa A. Amin | R'eza Ansari | Evan J. Arena | Philip Bull | Emanuele Castorina | Joshua S. Dillon | Alexander van Engelen | Aaron Ewall-Wice | Simon Foreman | Josef Frisch | Daniel Green | Gilbert Holder | Dionysios Karagiannis | Alexander A. Kaurov | Emily Kuhn | Kiyoshi W. Masui | Thomas McClintock | Kavilan Moodley | Moritz Munchmeyer | Andrei Nomerotski | Andrej Obuljen | Hamsa Padmanabhan | Olivier Perdereau | Neelima Sehgal | Chris Sheehy | Raphael Shirley | Eva Silverstein | Tracy Slatyer | Anvze Slosar | Paul Stankus | Albert Stebbins | Peter Timbie | Gregory S. Tucker | William Tyndall | Dallas Wulf | A. Slosar | G. Tucker | Z. Ahmed | E. Sheldon | D. Parkinson | A. Stebbins | J. Frisch | H. Padmanabhan | S. Foreman | A. Nomerotski | L. Knox | O. Perdereau | W. Tyndall | P. Timbie | F. Villaescusa-Navarro | A. Beardsley | J. Dillon | A. Ewall-Wice | D. Jacobs | Adrian Liu | M. Amin | D. Green | E. Silverstein | S. Ferraro | T. Slatyer | P. Stankus | E. Castorina | G. Holder | A. V. Engelen | B. Saliwanchik | C. Sheehy | Yin-Zhe Ma | K. Masui | Tzu-Ching Chang | K. Bandura | L. Newburgh | J. Shaw | D. Wulf | R. Ansari | P. Bull | K. Moodley | D. Karagiannis | M. Munchmeyer | P. O'Connor | A. Obuljen | R. Dav'e | N. Sehgal | D. Rapetti | D. Alonso | T. McClintock | R. Shirley | E. Kuhn | A. Kaurov | Dionysios Karagiannis

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