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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.IM2026

Setting requirements on out-of-band rejection for next-generation CMB experiments. Application to the LiteBIRD instrument

L. Mousset, L. Montier, J. Aumont +15

Next-generation cosmic microwave background experiments have very stringent constraints to achieve the required sensitivity to target polarization modes. In this work, we inten…

astro-ph.IM2024

Systematic effects induced by half-wave plate differential optical load and TES nonlinearity for LiteBIRD

Silvia Micheli, Tijmen de Haan, Tommaso Ghigna +12

LiteBIRD, a forthcoming satellite mission, aims to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) across the entire sky. The experiment will employ three telesco…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Development of the Low Frequency Telescope focal plane detector arrays for LiteBIRD

Tommaso Ghigna, Aritoki Suzuki, Benjamin Westbrook +12

LiteBIRD, a forthcoming JAXA mission, aims to accurately study the microwave sky within the 40-400 GHz frequency range divided into 15 distinct nominal bands. The primary objective…

astro-ph.IM2022

Testbed preparation of a small prototype polarization modulator for LiteBIRD low-frequency telescope

Thuong D. Hoang, Tomotake Matsumura, Ryota Takaku +9

LiteBIRD is the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation polarization satellite mission led by ISAS/JAXA. The main scientific goal is to search for primordial gravitational wave…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Modelling TES non-linearity induced by a rotating HWP in a CMB polarimeter

Tommaso Ghigna, Tomotake Matsumura, Yuki Sakurai +5

Most upcoming CMB experiments are planning to deploy between a few thousand and a few hundred thousand TES bolometers in order to drastically increase sensitivity and unveil the B-…

astro-ph.IM2022

Testing magnetic interference between TES detectors and the telescope environment for future CMB satellite missions

Tommaso Ghigna, Thuong Duc Hoang, Takashi Hasebe +11

The two most common components of several upcoming CMB experiments are large arrays of superconductive TES (Transition-Edge Sensor) detectors and polarization modulator units, e.g.…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 35 cited

Probing Cosmic Inflation with the LiteBIRD Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Survey

LiteBIRD Collaboration, E. Allys, K. Arnold +188

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

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

Simulations of systematic effects arising from cosmic rays in the LiteBIRD space telescope, and effects on the measurements of CMB -modes

Samantha Lynn Stever, Tommaso Ghigna, Mayu Tominaga +12

Systematic effects arising from cosmic rays have been shown to be a significant threat to space telescopes using high-sensitivity bolometers. The LiteBIRD space mission aims to mea…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission

L. Montier, B. Mot, P. de Bernardis +232

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Univer…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 143 cited

LiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization

M. Hazumi, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +233

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

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Simulation of the cosmic ray effects for the LiteBIRD satellite observing the CMB B-mode polarization

Mayu Tominaga, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Samantha Lynn Stever +3

The LiteBIRD satellite is planned to be launched by JAXA in the late 2020s. Its main purpose is to observe the large-scale B-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (C…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 12 cited

Concept Design of Low Frequency Telescope for CMB B-mode Polarization satellite LiteBIRD

Y. Sekimoto, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +232

LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode polarization over the full sky at large angular…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 53 cited

The large scale polarization explorer (LSPE) for CMB measurements: performance forecast

The LSPE collaboration, G. Addamo, P. A. R. Ade +102

[Abridged] The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is one of the current frontiers in cosmology. In particular, the detection of the primor…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 21 cited

Progress report on the Large Scale Polarization Explorer

L. Lamagna, G. Addamo, P. A. R. Ade +96

The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Back…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 13 cited

Requirements for future CMB satellite missions: photometric and band-pass response calibration

Tommaso Ghigna, Tomotake Matsumura, Guillaume Patanchon +2

Current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation experiments are targeting the polarized -mode signal. The small amplitude of this signal makes a successful measur…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 78 cited

Updated design of the CMB polarization experiment satellite LiteBIRD

H. Sugai, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +216

Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their app…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 6 cited

Design of a testbed for the study of system interference in space CMB polarimetry

Tommaso Ghigna, Tomotake Matsumura, Masashi Hazumi +6

LiteBIRD is a proposed JAXA satellite mission to measure the CMB B-mode polarization with unprecedented sensitivity (). To achieve this goal, state-of-the-art…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 7 cited

The STRIP instrument of the Large Scale Polarization Explorer: microwave eyes to map the Galactic polarized foregrounds

C. Franceschet, S. Realini, A. Mennella +48

In this paper we discuss the latest developments of the STRIP instrument of the "Large Scale Polarization Explorer" (LSPE) experiment. LSPE is a novel project that combines ground-…