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20182026
most cited2017 upgrade and performance of BICEP3: a 95GHz refracting telescope for degree-scale CMB polarization

26 citations · 123 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 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.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

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.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.IM2025★ 1 cited

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…

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.CO2024

Constraining Inflation with the BICEP/Keck CMB Polarization Experiments

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +84

The BICEP/ (BK) series of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments has, over the past decade and a half, produced a series of field-leading constra…

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 21 cited

LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts: Improving Sensitivity to Inflationary Gravitational Waves with Multitracer Delensing

T. Namikawa, A. I. Lonappan, C. Baccigalupi +119

We estimate the efficiency of mitigating the lensing -mode polarization, the so-called delensing, for the experiment with multiple external data sets of lensing-mass…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 12 cited

LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts: A full-sky measurement of gravitational lensing of the CMB

A. I. Lonappan, T. Namikawa, G. Piccirilli +119

We explore the capability of measuring lensing signals in full-sky polarization maps. With a arcmin beam width and an impressively low polarization noise of $2.16\,…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 24 cited

LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts. A Case Study of the Origin of Primordial Gravitational Waves using Large-Scale CMB Polarization

P. Campeti, E. Komatsu, C. Baccigalupi +107

We study the possibility of using the satellite -mode survey to constrain models of inflation producing specific features in CMB angular power spectra. We explore a p…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 23 cited

Tensor-to-scalar ratio forecasts for extended LiteBIRD frequency configurations

U. Fuskeland, J. Aumont, R. Aurlien +114

LiteBIRD is a planned JAXA-led CMB B-mode satellite experiment aiming for launch in the late 2020s, with a primary goal of detecting the imprint of primordial inflationary gravitat…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 26 cited

2017 upgrade and performance of BICEP3: a 95GHz refracting telescope for degree-scale CMB polarization

Jae Hwan Kang, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +74

BICEP3 is a 520mm aperture on-axis refracting telescope observing the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95GHz in search of the B-mode signal originating from…