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20102026
most citedPlanck pre-launch status: Design and description of the Low Frequency Instrument

176 citations · 1.7k across the 88 of their papers we have counts for

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94 papers

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

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.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Setting requirements on out-of-band rejection for next-generation CMB experiments. Application to the LiteBIRD instrument

L. Mousset, L. Montier, J. Aumont +15

Next-generation cosmic microwave background experiments have very stringent constraints to achieve the required sensitivity to target polarization modes. In this work, we inten…

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.CO2025

Addressing Synchrotron Challenges for CMB Observations: ELFS-SA Collaboration for Robust Foreground Removal

E. de la Hoz, A. Mennella, K. Arnold +17

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments aim to detect primordial gravitational waves with unprecedented sensitivity. Effective foreground removal is essential to avo…

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.IM2025★ 2 cited

On beam characterization of ground-based CMB radio telescopes using UAV-mounted sources: application to the QUIJOTE TFGI and plans for LSPE-Strip

Fabio Paonessa, Lorenzo Ciorba, Giuseppe Addamo +22

The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) project, funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), includes the development of LSPE-Strip, a ground-based radio telescope for observing…

astro-ph.IM2025

A chemically etched D-band waveguide orthomode transducer for CMB measurements

E. Manzan, A. Mennella, F. Cavaliere +21

This study presents a prototype D-band waveguide orthomode transducer (OMT) fabricated using chemically etched brass platelets. This method offers a fast, cost-effective, and scala…

astro-ph.CO2025

LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts: constraining isotropic cosmic birefringence

E. de la Hoz, P. Diego-Palazuelos, J. Errard +112

Cosmic birefringence (CB) is the rotation of the photons' linear polarisation plane during propagation. Such an effect is a tracer of parity-violating extensions of standard electr…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

The LSPE-Strip Pointing Reconstruction and Star Tracker

Michele Maris, Maurizio Tomasi, Matteo Baratto +18

This paper aims to describe the Pointing Reconstruction Model (PRM) and the prototype Star Tracker, which will be mounted on LSPE-Strip, a microwave Q- and W-band CMB telescope pla…

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

The European Low Frequency Survey on the Simons Array

Aniello Mennella, Kam Arnold, Susanna Azzoni +18

In this paper we present the European Low Frequency Survey (ELFS), a project that will enable foregrounds-free measurements of the primordial -mode polarization and a detection…

astro-ph.IM2024

Measuring the CMB spectral distortions with COSMO: the multi-mode antenna system

E. Manzan, L. Albano, C. Franceschet +29

In this work, we present the design and manufacturing of the two multi-mode antenna arrays of the COSMO experiment and the preliminary beam pattern measurements of their fundamenta…

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

LSPE-STRIP on-sky calibration strategy using bright celestial sources

R. T. Génova-Santos, M. Bersanelli, C. Franceschet +21

In this paper we describe the global on-sky calibration strategy of the LSPE-Strip instrument. Strip is a microwave telescope operating in the Q- and W-bands (central frequencies o…

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…