13 papers
QUIJOTE scientific results - XX. Commissioning and First Results from the Thirty and Forty Gigahertz Instrument (TFGI)
M. Fernández-Torreiro, J. A. Rubiño-Martín, R. T. Génova-Santos +16
We present the commissioning and first results of the Thirty and Forty Gigahertz Instrument (TFGI), which observes the sky at 31 and 41 GHz with angular resolutions of 21' and 18'…
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…
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
One of the current challenges in observational cosmology is obtaining high-precision polarisation maps of the CMB to measure primordial -modes and constrain the tensor-to-scalar…
QUIJOTE-TFGI polarization calibration -- Ground characterization and on-sky validation with Tau A and the Moon
Alessandro Fasano, Mateo Fernández-Torreiro, Guillermo Pascual-Cisneros +6
Our objective is to characterize the QUIJOTE Thirty and Forty GHz instrument (TFGI), calibrate it with a reference calibration signal on the ground, compare our results with on-sky…
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…