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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…
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…
Feasibility of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray backtracking through sparse local measurements of the Galactic magnetic field
S. Romanopoulos, M. Mastorakis, V. Pavlidou
Planned and ongoing campaigns for the acquisition of high-quality local measurements of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) at interstellar cloud locations have generated intense int…
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…
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…
SMILE: Discriminating milli-lens systems in a VLBI pilot project
F. M. Pötzl, C. Casadio, G. Kalaitzidakis +11
Dark Matter (DM) remains poorly probed on critical, sub-galactic scales, where predictions from different models diverge in terms of abundance and density profiles of halos. Gravit…
LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts. Mapping the Hot Gas in the Universe
M. Remazeilles, M. Douspis, J. A. Rubiño-Martín +104
We assess the capabilities of the LiteBIRD mission to map the hot gas distribution in the Universe through the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect. Our analysis relies on compreh…
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…
The first degree-scale starlight-polarization-based tomography map of the magnetized interstellar medium
V. Pelgrims, N. Mandarakas, R. Skalidis +21
We present the first degree-scale tomography map of the dusty magnetized interstellar medium (ISM) from stellar polarimetry and distance measurements. We used the RoboPol polarimet…
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\,…
Zero-polarization candidate regions for calibration of wide-field optical polarimeters
N. Mandarakas, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pelgrims +14
Context. Calibration of optical polarimeters relies on the use of stars with negligible polarization (unpolarized standard stars) for determining the instrumental polarization zero…
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…
Bright-Moon Sky as a Wide-Field Linear Polarimetric Flat Source for Calibration
S. Maharana, S. Kiehlmann, D. Blinov +20
Next-generation wide-field optical polarimeters like the Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeters (WALOPs) have a field of view (FoV) of tens of arcminutes. For efficient and accurate…
Analytic characterization of sub-Alfvénic turbulence energetics
R. Skalidis, K. Tassis, V. Pavlidou
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a cross-field process relevant to many systems. A prerequisite for understanding these systems is to constrain the role of MHD turbulence, a…
GRB 210619B optical afterglow polarization
N. Mandarakas, D. Blinov, D. R. Aguilera-Dena +7
We report on the follow-up of the extremely bright long gamma-ray burst GRB~210619B with optical polarimetry. We conducted optopolarimetric observations of the optical afterglow of…
Starlight-polarization-based tomography of the magnetized interstellar medium: PASIPHAE's line-of-sight inversion method
V. Pelgrims, G. V. Panopoulou, K. Tassis +20
We present the first Bayesian method for tomographic decomposition of the plane-of-sky orientation of the magnetic field with the use of stellar polarimetry and distance. This stan…
Why take the square root? An assessment of interstellar magnetic field strength estimation methods
R. Skalidis, J. Sternberg, J. R. Beattie +2
The magnetic field strength in interstellar clouds can be estimated indirectly by using the spread of dust polarization angles (). The method developed by Davis 1951 and by Cha…
Local alignments of parsec-scale AGN radiojets
N. Mandarakas, D. Blinov, C. Casadio +4
Context.Coherence in the characteristics of neighboring sources in 2D and 3D space may suggest the existence of large-scale cosmic structures, which are useful for cosmological stu…
Local measurements of the mean interstellar polarization at high Galactic latitudes
R. Skalidis, G. V. Panopoulou, K. Tassis +4
We conduct a small-scale pathfinding survey designed to identify the average polarization properties of the diffuse ISM locally at the lowest dust content regions. We perform deep…
Deflections of ultra-high energy cosmic rays by the Milky Way magnetic field: how well can they be corrected?
G. Magkos, V. Pavlidou
Locating the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) still remains a difficult puzzle for modern astrophysics. A major hurdle in the search for the sources is the fact th…
The dependence of optical polarisation of blazars on the synchrotron component peak frequency
Emmanouil Angelakis, Dmitry Blinov, Markus Böttcher +5
The RoboPol instrument and the relevant program was developed in order to conduct a systematic study of the optical polarisation variability of blazars. Driven by the discovery tha…
Robopol: Optical polarisation monitoring of blazars
Emmanouil Angelakis, Dmitry Blinov, Markus Böttcher +5
The RoboPol program has been monitoring the -band linear polarisation parameters of an unbiased sample of 60 gamma-ray-loud blazars and a "control" sample of 15 gamma-ray-quite…