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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…
-sure. Part II. Scattering transforms as robustness test for tensor-to-scalar ratio detection from CMB observations
Claudio Ranucci, Sébastien Pierre, Léo Vacher +7
Galactic foregrounds represent a major contamination to the measurement of primordial -modes from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarisation. Even after the ap…
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…
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…
BROOM: a python package for model-independent analysis of microwave astronomical data
Alessandro Carones, Sijil Jose, Aliza Mustafa +2
We present BROOM, a new python package for the application of blind, minimum-variance component-separation techniques to microwave observations. The package enables the reconstruct…
Blind mitigation of foreground-induced biases on primordial modes for ground-based CMB experiments
Aliza Mustafa, Alessandro Carones, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff +2
Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarisation provide a unique probe of inflationary physics. Extracting a reliable constraint on the tensor-to-scalar r…
Interpreting map-based / spectral properties of CMB foregrounds
Gilles Weymann-Despres, Léo Vacher, Michael E. Jones +5
Map-space / decompositions of linear polarization are attractive for foreground and CMB analyses because they separate parity families: -family patterns directly contamina…
Is cosmic birefringence due to dark energy or dark matter? Simulation-based inference
Florie Carralot, Patricia Diego-Palazuelos, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +3
Simulation-based inference (SBI) is a powerful inference technique for cases where the exact functional form of the likelihood is not known. A prime example is the likelihood of cr…
The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479
We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…
-sure I: Minkowski functionals as robustness test for tensor-to-scalar ratio detection from CMB observations
Claudio Ranucci, Alessandro Carones, Léo Vacher +2
The detection of primordial -mode polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a major observational goal in modern Cosmology, offering a potential window into infla…
The Simons Observatory: Assessing the Impact of Dust Complexity on the Recovery of Primordial -modes
Yiqi Liu, Susanna Azzoni, Susan E. Clark +14
We investigate how dust foreground complexity can affect measurements of the tensor-to-scalar ratio, , in the context of the Simons Observatory, using a cross-spectrum component…
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…
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…
Full-sky Models of Galactic Microwave Emission and Polarization at Sub-arcminute Scales for the Python Sky Model
Experiment Galactic Science Group, Julian Borrill, Susan E. Clark +15
Polarized foreground emission from the Galaxy is one of the biggest challenges facing current and upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments. We develop ne…
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…
How bad could it be? Modelling the 3D complexity of the polarised dust signal using moment expansion
Léo Vacher, Alessandro Carones, Jonathan Aumont +5
The variation of the physical conditions across the three dimensions of our Galaxy is a major source of complexity for the modelling of the foreground signal facing the cosmic micr…
The Simons Observatory: component separation pipelines for B-modes
Kevin Wolz, Susanna Azzoni, Carlos Hervías-Caimapo +5
The upcoming Simons Observatory (SO) Small Aperture Telescopes aim at observing the degree-scale anisotropies of the polarized CMB to constrain the primordial tensor-to-scalar rati…
ForSE+: Simulating non-Gaussian CMB foregrounds at 3 arcminutes in a stochastic way based on a generative adversarial network
Jian Yao, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Marianna Foschi +2
We present ForSE+, a Python package that produces non-Gaussian diffuse Galactic thermal dust emission maps at arcminute angular scales and that has the capacity to generate random…
The Simons Observatory: Combining cross-spectral foreground cleaning with multitracer -mode delensing for improved constraints on inflation
Emilie Hertig, Kevin Wolz, Toshiya Namikawa +16
The Simons Observatory (SO), due to start full science operations in early 2025, aims to set tight constraints on inflationary physics by inferring the tensor-to-scalar ratio f…
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…
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…
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…
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\,…
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…