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

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69 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

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

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.CO2026

Cosmoglobe DR2. VI. Disentangling hot and cold thermal dust emission with Planck HFI

R. M. Sullivan, E. Gjerløw, M. Galloway +20

We present a four-component high-resolution model of thermal dust emission for microwave and sub-mm frequencies derived from Planck HFI, WHAM and Gaia. The resulting high-resolutio…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmoglobe DR2. IV. Modelling starlight in DIRBE with Gaia and WISE

M. Galloway, E. Gjerløw, M. San +20

We present a model of starlight emission in the Diffuse Infrared Background Explorer (DIRBE) data between 1.25 and 25m based on \textit{Gaia} and WISE measurements. We include…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmoglobe DR2. VII. Towards a concordance model of large-scale thermal dust emission for microwave and infrared frequencies

E. Gjerløw, R. M. Sullivan, R. Aurvik +20

We fit a four-component thermal dust model to COBE-DIRBE data between 3.5 and 240 micron within the global Bayesian end-to-end Cosmoglobe DR2 reanalysis. Following a companion anal…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmoglobe DR2. V. Spatial correlations between thermal dust and ionized carbon emission in Planck HFI and COBE-DIRBE

E. Gjerløw, R. M. Sullivan, R. Aurvik +20

We fit five tracers of thermal dust emission to ten Planck HFI and COBE-DIRBE frequency maps between 353 GHz and 25 THz, aiming to map the relative importance of each physical host…

astro-ph.CO2025

LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts. -mode Anomalies

A. J. Banday, C. Gimeno-Amo, P. Diego-Palazuelos +101

Various so-called anomalies have been found in both the WMAP and Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature data that exert a mild tension against the highly successful b…

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

LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts: constraining isotropic cosmic birefringence

E. de la Hoz, P. Diego-Palazuelos, J. Errard +112

Cosmic birefringence (CB) is the rotation of the photons' linear polarisation plane during propagation. Such an effect is a tracer of parity-violating extensions of standard electr…

astro-ph.CO2024

Cosmoglobe DR2. I. Global Bayesian analysis of COBE-DIRBE

D. J. Watts, M. Galloway, E. Gjerløw +14

We present the first global Bayesian analysis of the time-ordered DIRBE data within the Cosmoglobe framework, building on the same methodology that has previously been successfully…

astro-ph.CO2024

Cosmoglobe DR2. III. Improved modelling of zodiacal light with COBE-DIRBE through global Bayesian analysis

M. San, A. Bonato, M. Galloway +20

We present an improved zodiacal light (ZL) model for COBE-DIRBE derived through global Bayesian analysis within the Cosmoglobe Data Release 2 framework. The parametric form of the…

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

Cosmoglobe DR2. II. CIB monopole measurements from COBE-DIRBE through global Bayesian analysis

D. J. Watts, M. Galloway, E. Gjerløw +13

We derive new constraints on the CIB monopole spectrum from a set of reprocessed COBE-DIRBE sky maps that have lower instrumental and astrophysical contamination than the legacy DI…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 12 cited

LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts: Primordial Magnetic Fields

D. Paoletti, J. Rubino-Martin, M. Shiraishi +97

We present detailed forecasts for the constraints on primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) that will be obtained with the LiteBIRD satellite. The constraints are driven by the effects…

astro-ph.CO2023

Impact of beam far side-lobe knowledge in the presence of foregrounds for LiteBIRD

C. Leloup, G. Patanchon, J. Errard +108

We present a study of the impact of an uncertainty in the beam far side-lobe knowledge on the measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background -mode signal at large scale. It is e…