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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2022★ 37 cited

The POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Focal Plane Fabrication Status

B. Westbrook, P. A. R. Ade, M. Aguilar +90

We present on the status of POLARBEAR-2 A (PB2-A) focal plane fabrication. The PB2-A is the first of three telescopes in the Simon Array (SA), which is an array of three cosmic mic…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Development of the Low Frequency Telescope Focal Plane Detector Modules for LiteBIRD

Benjamin Westbrook, Christopher Raum, Shawn Beckman +23

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led strategic large-class satellite mission designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and Galactic foregrounds from 34 to 448 GHz a…

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★ 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★ 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.IM2021

Detector fabrication development for the LiteBIRD satellite mission

Benjamin Westbrook, Christopher Raum, Shawn Beckman +24

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led strategic Large-Class satellite mission designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and cosmic foregrounds from 34 to 448 GHz acr…

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★ 79 cited

The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 72 cited

The Simons Observatory: Instrument Overview

Nicholas Galitzki, Aamir Ali, Kam S. Arnold +75

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 137 cited

The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission - Sub-Kelvin Instrument

A. Suzuki, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +149

Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 60 cited

Performance of a continuously rotating half-wave plate on the POLARBEAR telescope

Satoru Takakura, Mario Aguilar, Yoshiki Akiba +50

A continuously rotating half-wave plate (CRHWP) is a promising tool to improve the sensitivity to large angular scales in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization measurement…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 17 cited

Making maps of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization for B-mode studies: the POLARBEAR example

Davide Poletti, Giulio Fabbian, Maude Le Jeune +46

Analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) datasets typically requires some filtering of the raw time-ordered data. Filtering is frequently used to minimize the impact of low fr…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 41 cited

Design and development of an ambient-temperature continuously-rotating achromatic half-wave plate for CMB polarization modulation on the POLARBEAR-2 experiment

Charles A. Hill, Shawn Beckman, Yuji Chinone +9

We describe the development of an ambient-temperature continuously-rotating half-wave plate (HWP) for study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization by the POLARBEAR-2…