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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2026

Development and characterization of a millimeter-wave circular polarization observation method using a quarter-wave plate with Simons Array

Kana Sakaguri, Darcy R. Barron, Yuji Chinone +17

We have developed and demonstrated a method for measuring circular polarization at 90 GHz by combining a quarter-wave plate (QWP) and a continuously rotating half-wave plate (HWP).…

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

The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes

Kathleen Harrington, Remington Gerras, Nicholas Galitzki +88

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO Small Aperture Tel…

astro-ph.CO2026

Sensitivity of Next-Generation CMB Surveys to Neutrinos and Other Light Relics

Cynthia Trendafilova, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Benjamin Wallisch +33

Neutrinos and other light relics leave characteristic imprints in the cosmic microwave background anisotropies, making their observation a sensitive probe of the particle content a…

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.IM2025

The Simons Observatory: Detector Polarization Angle Calibration using Sparse Wire Grid with Initial Data Sets of the Small Aperture Telescope

Hironobu Nakata, Shunsuke Adachi, Kyohei Yamada +22

Improved measurements of -modes in the cosmic microwave background can be obtained through accurate calibration of the orientation of detector antennas as projected onto the sky…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraints on the polarization angle oscillations of the Crab Nebula with the Simons Array and its applications to the search for axion-like particles

Tylor Adkins, Shahed Shayan Arani, Kam Arnold +27

We present a search for polarization oscillation of the Crab Nebula, also known as Tau A, at millimeter wavelengths using observations with the Simons Array, the successor experime…

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.CO2025★ 3 cited

The Simons Observatory: Validation of reconstructed power spectra from simulated filtered maps for the Small Aperture Telescope survey

Carlos Hervías-Caimapo, Kevin Wolz, Adrien La Posta +33

We present a transfer function-based method to estimate angular power spectra from filtered maps for cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. This is especially relevant for expe…

astro-ph.CO2024

Map-based E/B separation of filtered timestreams using space-based E-mode observations

Yuyang Zhou, Adrian Lee, Yuji Chinone

E to B mixing or "leakage" due to time-ordered data (TOD) filtering has become an important source of sensitivity loss that ground-based cosmic microwave background polarization ex…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

A measurement of atmospheric circular polarization with POLARBEAR

Takuro Fujino, Satoru Takakura, Shahed Shayan Arani +20

At millimeter wavelengths, the atmospheric emission is circularly polarized owing to the Zeeman splitting of molecular oxygen by the Earth's magnetic field. We report a measurement…

astro-ph.IM2024

Calibration of detector time constant with a thermal source for the POLARBEAR-2A CMB polarization experiment

S. Takatori, M. Hasegawa, M. Hazumi +22

The Simons Array (SA) project is a ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment. The SA observes the sky using three telescopes, and POLARBEAR-2A (PB-2A)…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 10 cited

Exploration of the polarization angle variability of the Crab Nebula with POLARBEAR and its application to the search for axion-like particles

Shunsuke Adachi, Tylor Adkins, Carlo Baccigalupi +23

The Crab Nebula, also known as Tau A, is a polarized astronomical source at millimeter wavelengths. It has been used as a stable light source for polarization angle calibration in…

astro-ph.CO2023

Mitigating Cosmic Microwave Background Shadow Degradation of Tensor-to-scalar Ratio Measurements through Map-based Studies

Tamaki Murokoshi, Yuji Chinone, Masashi Nashimoto +2

It has been pointed out that the spurious Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarization signals caused by the absorption of the CMB monopole component due to the Galactic i…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 19 cited

Constraints on axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background with POLARBEAR

The POLARBEAR Collaboration, Shunsuke Adachi, Tylor Adkins +29

Very light pseudoscalar fields, often referred to as axions, are compelling dark matter candidates and can potentially be detected through their coupling to the electromagnetic fie…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Characterization of a half-wave plate for cosmic microwave background circular polarization measurement with POLARBEAR

T. Fujino, S. Takakura, Y. Chinone +7

A half-wave plate (HWP) is often used as a modulator to suppress systematic error in the measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. A HWP can also be used to m…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 2 cited

Cosmological gravity probes: connecting recent theoretical developments to forthcoming observations

Shun Arai, Katsuki Aoki, Yuji Chinone +20

Since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the present Universe, significant theoretical developments have been made in the area of modified gravity. In the meantime, cosm…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 37 cited

The POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Focal Plane Fabrication Status

B. Westbrook, P. A. R. Ade, M. Aguilar +90

We present on the status of POLARBEAR-2 A (PB2-A) focal plane fabrication. The PB2-A is the first of three telescopes in the Simon Array (SA), which is an array of three cosmic mic…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 12 cited

Snowmass 2021 CMB-S4 White Paper

Kevork Abazajian, Arwa Abdulghafour, Graeme E. Addison +353

This Snowmass 2021 White Paper describes the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 project CMB-S4, which is designed to cross critical thresholds in our understanding of the origin a…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 11 cited

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements White Paper

Clarence L. Chang, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Bradford A. Benson +128

This is a solicited whitepaper for the Snowmass 2021 community planning exercise. The paper focuses on measurements and science with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 28 cited

Improved upper limit on degree-scale CMB B-mode polarization power from the 670 square-degree POLARBEAR survey

The POLARBEAR Collaboration, S. Adachi, T. Adkins +51

We report an improved measurement of the degree-scale cosmic microwave background -mode angular-power spectrum over 670 square-degree sky area at 150 GHz with POLARBEAR. In the…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 35 cited

Probing Cosmic Inflation with the LiteBIRD Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Survey

LiteBIRD Collaboration, E. Allys, K. Arnold +188

LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 22 cited

In-flight polarization angle calibration for LiteBIRD: blind challenge and cosmological implications

Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Tomotake Matsumura, Elena de la Hoz +67

We present a demonstration of the in-flight polarization angle calibration for the JAXA/ISAS second strategic large class mission, LiteBIRD, and estimate its impact on the measurem…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 42 cited

The Simons Observatory: Constraining inflationary gravitational waves with multi-tracer B-mode delensing

Toshiya Namikawa, Anton Baleato Lizancos, Naomi Robertson +32

We introduce and validate a delensing framework for the Simons Observatory (SO), which will be used to improve constraints on inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs) by reducing th…