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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…
-sure. Part II. Scattering transforms as robustness test for tensor-to-scalar ratio detection from CMB observations
Claudio Ranucci, Sébastien Pierre, Léo Vacher +7
Galactic foregrounds represent a major contamination to the measurement of primordial -modes from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarisation. Even after the ap…
Combining Systematic Effects in CMB Polarization Experiments through map-based simulations: application to LiteBIRD's HWP non-idealities and detectors non-linearity
Silvia Micheli, Francesco Piacentini, Tommaso Ghigna +10
We quantify the impact of coupled instrumental systematics on next-generation CMB polarization experiments targeting primordial -mode polarization, with a focus on the forthcomi…
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…
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…
Status and future development of the COSMOCal Project for absolute CMB polarization calibration
Silvia Micheli, Alessia Ritacco, Alessandro Carones +36
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization measurements are pushing instrumental sensitivities to levels where calibration systematics become a dominant limitation. The large d…
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…
BROOM: a python package for model-independent analysis of microwave astronomical data
Alessandro Carones, Sijil Jose, Aliza Mustafa +2
We present BROOM, a new python package for the application of blind, minimum-variance component-separation techniques to microwave observations. The package enables the reconstruct…
Blind mitigation of foreground-induced biases on primordial modes for ground-based CMB experiments
Aliza Mustafa, Alessandro Carones, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff +2
Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarisation provide a unique probe of inflationary physics. Extracting a reliable constraint on the tensor-to-scalar r…
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…
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,…
Debiasing cosmological parameters from large-scale foreground contamination in Cosmic Microwave Background data
Alessandro Carones
Current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments aim to achieve high-precision reconstruction of the CMB polarization signal, with the most ambitious objective bein…
-sure I: Minkowski functionals as robustness test for tensor-to-scalar ratio detection from CMB observations
Claudio Ranucci, Alessandro Carones, Léo Vacher +2
The detection of primordial -mode polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a major observational goal in modern Cosmology, offering a potential window into infla…
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…
The Simons Observatory: Assessing the Impact of Dust Complexity on the Recovery of Primordial -modes
Yiqi Liu, Susanna Azzoni, Susan E. Clark +14
We investigate how dust foreground complexity can affect measurements of the tensor-to-scalar ratio, , in the context of the Simons Observatory, using a cross-spectrum component…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Simons Observatory: Quantifying the impact of beam chromaticity on large-scale B-mode science
Nadia Dachlythra, Kevin Wolz, Susanna Azzoni +17
The Simons Observatory (SO) Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) will observe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization at six frequency bands. Within these ba…
The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419
We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…
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…
How bad could it be? Modelling the 3D complexity of the polarised dust signal using moment expansion
Léo Vacher, Alessandro Carones, Jonathan Aumont +5
The variation of the physical conditions across the three dimensions of our Galaxy is a major source of complexity for the modelling of the foreground signal facing the cosmic micr…