3 papers
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.IM2024
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.IM2024
The Simons Observatory: Beam characterization for the Small Aperture Telescopes
Nadia Dachlythra, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Jon E. Gudmundsson +27
We use time-domain simulations of Jupiter observations to test and develop a beam reconstruction pipeline for the Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescopes. The method relies on…