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

24 citations · 98 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

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

High-accuracy polarimetry for CMB: new frontiers with the POLOCALC project

A. Novelli, F. Astori, L. Bizzarri +8

Modern telescopes observing the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization require an exquisite control of systematics to target Inflationary Gravitational Waves (IGW), Cosmic…

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.IM2025

Systematic effect induced by misalignment in a Reflective Polarization Modulator for CMB, and application to the LiteBIRD case

S. Stellati, F. Piacentini, S. Micheli +10

[Abridged] The LiteBIRD mission aims to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization with unprecedented precision, targeting the detection of primordial B modes and a…

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.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.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★ 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★ 1 cited

Observing galaxy clusters and the cosmic web through the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect with MISTRAL

E. S. Battistelli, E. Barbavara, P. de Bernardis +33

Galaxy clusters and surrounding medium, can be studied using X-ray bremsstrahlung emission and Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. Both astrophysical probes, sample the same environmen…

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…