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20172026
most citedThe CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

299 citations · 497 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Validation of harmonic-space likelihood methods for LiteBIRD B-mode polarisation analysis

G. Galloni, P. Campeti, C. Gimeno-Amo +112

The LiteBIRD satellite mission aims to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio with unprecedented sensitivity through observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Frequency-resolved beam calibration for the SO SATs with POLOCALC

Nadia Dachlythra, Gabriele Coppi, Ludovico Bizzarri +30

We present a far-field beam calibration of the Simons Observatory (SO) Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) using scanned single-frequency measurements of a drone-mounted source emitti…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes

Kathleen Harrington, Remington Gerras, Nicholas Galitzki +88

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO Small Aperture Tel…

astro-ph.CO2026

Differential Polarization Calibration: A Consistency Test for Cosmic Birefringence

Anto I. Lonappan, Brian Keating, Kam Arnold

The cosmic microwave background birefringence angle is exactly degenerate with a common instrumental polarization-angle offset. The Minami--Komatsu(MK) likelihood separates the…

astro-ph.CO2026

Sensitivity of Next-Generation CMB Surveys to Neutrinos and Other Light Relics

Cynthia Trendafilova, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Benjamin Wallisch +33

Neutrinos and other light relics leave characteristic imprints in the cosmic microwave background anisotropies, making their observation a sensitive probe of the particle content a…

astro-ph.IM2026

LiteBIRD Mission Overview after Mission Reformation

LiteBIRD Collaboration, K. Aizawa, H. Akamatsu +172

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led space mission designed to produce all-sky microwave polarization maps. Its primary science goal is to test representative inflationary models by measuring th…

astro-ph.GA2026

Galactic Science with the LiteBIRD satellite: Spectral characterization of diffuse Galactic polarized emission at the angular power spectrum level

S. Vinzl, J. Aumont, L. Vacher +108

Detection of primordial -mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from tensor perturbations generated during inflation is a major scientific goal of future CMB…

astro-ph.CO2026

A cross-calibration approach for polarisation-sensitive detectors in CMB experiments: application to LiteBIRD's polarisation angle calibration

A. Novelli, F. Piacentini, S. Micheli +102

We present a cross-calibration algorithm that determines the relative calibration of detectors within the same frequency band of a CMB experiment. The method iteratively compares s…

astro-ph.CO2026

Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the Curl-Mode CMB Lensing Power Spectrum measured by ACT DR6

A. I. Lonappan, K. Ramesh, T. Namikawa +2

A network of cosmic strings is one of the few well-motivated cosmological sources of vector and tensor metric perturbations on the largest observable scales. Such perturbations imp…

astro-ph.CO2026

Mitigating half-wave plate systematics at the map-making level: calibration requirements for LiteBIRD

N. Raffuzzi, A. Carones, M. Monelli +101

Although half-wave plates (HWPs) are becoming a popular choice of polarization modulators for cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, their non-idealities can introduce syst…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…

cs.AI2025

Open Source Planning & Control System with Language Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery

Licong Xu, Milind Sarkar, Anto I. Lonappan +23

We present a multi-agent system for automation of scientific research tasks, cmbagent (https://github.com/CMBAgents/cmbagent). The system is formed by about 30 Large Language Model…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

LiteBIRD science goals and forecasts: improved full-sky reconstruction of the gravitational lensing potential through the combination of Planck and LiteBIRD data

M. Ruiz-Granda, P. Diego-Palazuelos, C. Gimeno-Amo +102

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons are deflected by large-scale structure through gravitational lensing. This secondary effect introduces higher-order correlations in CMB an…

astro-ph.IM2025

First release of LiteBIRD simulations from an end-to-end pipeline

M. Bortolami, N. Raffuzzi, L. Pagano +107

The LiteBIRD satellite mission aims at detecting Cosmic Microwave Background modes with unprecedented precision, targeting a total error on the tensor-to-scalar ratio of $δ…

astro-ph.IM2025

On the computational feasibility of Bayesian end-to-end analysis of LiteBIRD simulations within Cosmoglobe

R. Aurvik, M. Galloway, E. Gjerløw +107

We assess the computational feasibility of end-to-end Bayesian analysis of the JAXA-led LiteBIRD experiment by analysing simulated time ordered data (TOD) for a subset of detectors…

astro-ph.IM2025

A Simulation Framework for the LiteBIRD Instruments

M. Tomasi, L. Pagano, A. Anand +111

LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of -mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission focused on primordial cosmo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Requirements on bandpass resolution and measurement precision for LiteBIRD

S. Giardiello, A. Carones, T. Ghigna +95

In this work, we study the impact of an imperfect knowledge of the instrument bandpasses on the estimate of the tensor-to-scalar ratio in the context of the next-generation Lit…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Constraints on Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence from CMB B-mode Polarization

A. I. Lonappan, B. Keating, K. Arnold

Cosmic birefringencethe rotation of the polarization plane of light as it traverses the universeoffers a direct observational window into parity-violating physics beyond the…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 299 cited

The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

Eleonora Di Valentino, Jackson Levi Said, Adam Riess +533

The standard model of cosmology has provided a good phenomenological description of a wide range of observations both at astrophysical and cosmological scales for several decades.…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Improving Cosmic Birefringence Constraints via Delensing

Anto Idicherian Lonappan

We present a study on using delensing to enhance cosmic birefringence measurements based on full-sky, map-based simulations. In our analysis, we neglect foreground contamination an…

astro-ph.CO2024

Requirements on the gain calibration for LiteBIRD polarisation data with blind component separation

F. Carralot, A. Carones, N. Krachmalnicoff +106

Future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments are primarily targeting a detection of the primordial -mode polarisation. The faintness of this signal requires exquisite co…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

Multi-dimensional optimisation of the scanning strategy for the LiteBIRD space mission

Y. Takase, L. Vacher, H. Ishino +105

Large angular scale surveys in the absence of atmosphere are essential for measuring the primordial -mode power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Since this pro…

astro-ph.CO2024

LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts. Mapping the Hot Gas in the Universe

M. Remazeilles, M. Douspis, J. A. Rubiño-Martín +104

We assess the capabilities of the LiteBIRD mission to map the hot gas distribution in the Universe through the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect. Our analysis relies on compreh…

astro-ph.IM2024

The LiteBIRD mission to explore cosmic inflation

T. Ghigna, A. Adler, K. Aizawa +156

LiteBIRD, the next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment, aims for a launch in Japan's fiscal year 2032, marking a major advancement in the exploration of primord…