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most citedPlanck 2013 Results. XXIV. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity

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astro-ph.CO2026

FOSSIL: A future mission for CMB spectral distortion measurements

N. Aghanim, B. Maffei, J. Aumont +96

We present FOSSIL, a proposed space mission which is designed to deliver unprecedented absolute spectroscopic measurements of the sky intensity over a broad frequency range (50GHz…

astro-ph.IM2026

Proof of concept of the COSMOCal project at the IRAM 30m telescope

S. Savorgnano, L. Bizzarri, A. Ritacco +25

This work reports on a test campaign conducted at the IRAM 30m telescope to validate the COSMOCal instrument, a novel concept for absolute calibration of polarization angle, beam p…

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.IM2026

Status and future development of the COSMOCal Project for absolute CMB polarization calibration

Silvia Micheli, Alessia Ritacco, Alessandro Carones +36

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization measurements are pushing instrumental sensitivities to levels where calibration systematics become a dominant limitation. The large d…

astro-ph.IM2026

Status of the COSmological Microwave Observations CALibrator

L. Mousset, J. Aumont, S. Berta +33

As the sensitivity of CMB telescopes increases, the need for precise calibration becomes critical. Started in 2022, the COSMOCal project aims to place an artificial polarized sourc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE): Mission Design and Science Goals

Alan Kogut, Eric Switzer, Dale Fixsen +14

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure the energy spectrum and linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). A si…

astro-ph.IM2023

Polarization angle accuracy for future CMB experiments. The COSMOCal project and its prototype in the 1mm band

A. Ritacco, L. Bizzarri, F. Boulanger +24

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation offers a unique window into the early Universe, facilitating precise examinations of fundamental cosmological theories. However, the…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 140 cited

Planck 2015 results. XXIII. The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect--cosmic infrared background correlation

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +199

We use Planck data to detect the cross-correlation between the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect and the infrared emission from the galaxies that make up the the cosmic infrar…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 98 cited

Planck 2015 results. III. LFI systematic uncertainties

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, J. Aumont +166

We present the current accounting of systematic effect uncertainties for the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) that are relevant to the 2015 release of the Planck cosmological results…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 222 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +230

The polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust is the main foreground present in measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at frequencies above 1…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 457 cited

Planck 2013 Results. XXIV. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +237

The Planck nominal mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps yield unprecedented constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). Using three optimal bispectrum estimators, sep…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 159 cited

Planck 2013 results. XIX. The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +245

Based on CMB maps from the 2013 Planck Mission data release, this paper presents the detection of the ISW effect, i.e., the correlation between the CMB and large-scale evolving gra…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 395 cited

Planck 2013 results. XVII. Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +235

On the arcminute angular scales probed by Planck, the CMB anisotropies are gently perturbed by gravitational lensing. Here we present a detailed study of this effect, detecting len…