3 papers
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.CO2023
News from the Swampland -- Constraining string theory with astrophysics and cosmology
Nils Schöneberg, Léo Vacher, J. D. F. Dias +2
Our current best guess for a unified theory of gravitation and quantum field theory (string theory) generically predicts a set of requirements for a consistently quantized theory,…
astro-ph.IM2022
Status of QUBIC, the Q&U Bolometer for Cosmology
L. Mousset, P. Ade, A. Almela +108
The Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a novel kind of polarimeter optimized for the measurement of the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Back-ground…