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Requirements for future CMB satellite missions: photometric and band-pass response calibration

Current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation experiments are targeting the polarized $B$-mode signal. The small amplitude of this signal makes a successful measurement challenging for current technologies. Therefore, very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Tommaso Ghigna , Tomotake Matsumura , Guillaume Patanchon , Hirokazu Ishino , Masashi Hazumi

Cosmic Polarization Rotation, Cosmological Models, and the Detectability of Primordial Gravitational Waves

CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) polarization observations test many aspects of cosmological models. Effective pseudoscalar-photon interaction(s) would induce a rotation of linear polarization of electromagnetic wave propagating with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-20 Wei-Tou Ni

Multi-Chroic Feed-Horn Coupled TES Polarimeters

Multi-chroic polarization sensitive detectors offer an avenue to increase both the spectral coverage and sensitivity of instruments optimized for observations of the cosmic-microwave background (CMB) or sub-mm sky. We report on an effort to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. McMahon , J. Beall , D. Becker , H. M. Cho , R. Datta. A. Fox , N. Halverson , J. Hubmayr , K. Irwin , J. Nibarger , M. Niemack , H. Smith

Polarizing Bubble Collisions

We predict the polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons that results from a cosmic bubble collision. The polarization is purely E-mode, symmetric around the axis pointing towards the collision bubble, and has several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bartlomiej Czech , Matthew Kleban , Klaus Larjo , Thomas S. Levi , Kris Sigurdson

A Pixel Space Method for Testing Dipole Modulation in the CMB Polarization

We introduce a pixel space method to detect dipole modulation or hemispherical power asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The method relies on the use of squared total polarized flux whose ensemble average picks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Shamik Ghosh , Pankaj Jain

Data Processing and Compression of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies on Board the PLANCK Satellite

We present a simple way of coding and compressing the data on board the Planck instruments (HFI and LFI) to address the problem of the on board data reduction. This is a critical issue in the Planck mission. The total information that can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Gaztanaga , A. Romeo , J. Barriga , E. Elizalde

Cosmological Zero Modes

We introduce a new family of primordial cosmological perturbations that are not described by traditional power spectra. At the linear level, these perturbations live in the kernel of the spatial Laplacian operator, and thus we call them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Niayesh Afshordi , Matthew C. Johnson

BICEP2 / Keck Array IX: New Bounds on Anisotropies of CMB Polarization Rotation and Implications for Axion-Like Particles and Primordial Magnetic Fields

We present the strongest constraints to date on anisotropies of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization rotation derived from 150 GHz data taken by the BICEP2/Keck Array CMB experiments up to and including the 2014 observing season…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-21 Keck Array , BICEP2 Collaborations , : , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , R. W. Aikin , K. D. Alexander , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , B. P. Crill , L. Duband , C. Dvorkin , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , T. St. Germaine , T. Ghosh , J. Grayson , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , N. A. Larsen , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , C. Pryke , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , K. W. Yoon

The new generation CMB B-mode polarization experiment: POLARBEAR

We describe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment called Polarbear. This experiment will use the dedicated Huan Tran Telescope equipped with a powerful 1,200-bolometer array receiver to map the CMB polarization with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-25 The Polarbear Collaboration , J. Errard , P. A. R. Ade , A. Anthony , K. Arnold , F. Aubin , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , C. Cantalupo , M. A. Dobbs , D. Flanigan , A. Ghribi , N. Halverson , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Howard , P. Hyland , A. Jaffe , B. Keating , T. Kisner , Z. Kermish , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , M. Lungu , T. Matsumura , N. Miller , X. Meng , M. Myers , H. Nishino , R. O'Brient , D. O'Dea , C. Reichardt , I. Schanning , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , H. Spieler , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , T. Tomaru , H. T. Tran , C. Tucker , E. Quealy , P. L. Richards , O. Zahn

The Annulus-Filtered E and B Modes in CMBR Polarization

Although it has previously been recognized that the CMB polarization measurement on a sky ring is able to separate the B and E-mode patterns, we show that the rotational symmetry of the CMB polarization measurement is indeed unique, in that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tzihong Chiueh , Cheng-Jiun Ma

QUBIC IV: Performance of TES Bolometers and Readout Electronics

A prototype version of the Q & U bolometric interferometer for cosmology (QUBIC) underwent a campaign of testing in the laboratory at Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology laboratory in Paris (APC). The detection chain is currently made of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 M. Piat , G. Stankowiak , E. S. Battistelli , P. de Bernardis , G. D Alessandro , M. De Petris , L. Grandsire , J. -Ch. Hamilton , T. D. Hoang , S. Marnieros , S. Masi , A. Mennella , L. Mousset , C. O Sullivan , D. Prele , A. Tartari , J. -P. Thermeau , S. A. Torchinsky , F. Voisin , M. Zannoni , P. Ade , J. G. Alberro , A. Almela , G. Amico , L. H. Arnaldi , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , S. Azzoni , S. Banfi , B. Belier , A. Bau , D. Bennett , L. Berge , J. -Ph. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , J. Bonaparte , J. Bonis , E. Bunn , D. Burke , D. Buzi , F. Cavaliere , P. Chanial , C. Chapron , R. Charlassier , A. C. Cobos Cerutti , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , S. Dheilly , C. Duca , L. Dumoulin , A. Etchegoyen , A. Fasciszewski , L. P. Ferreyro , D. Fracchia , C. Franceschet , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , K. M. Ganga , B. Garcia , M. E. Garcia Redondo , M. Gaspard , D. Gayer , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , V. Gilles , Y. Giraud-Heraud , M. Gomez Berisson , M. Gonzalez , M. Gradziel , M. R. Hampel , D. Harari , S. Henrot-Versille , F. Incardona , E. Jules , J. Kaplan , C. Kristukat , L. Lamagna , S. Loucatos , T. Louis , B. Maffei , W. Marty , A. Mattei , A. May , M. McCulloch , L. Mele , D. Melo , L. Montier , L. M. Mundo , J. A. Murphy , J. D. Murphy , F. Nati , E. Olivieri , C. Oriol , A. Paiella , F. Pajot , A. Passerini , H. Pastoriza , A. Pelosi , C. Perbost , M. Perciballi , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , M. Platino , G. Polenta , R. Puddu , D. Rambaud , E. Rasztocky , P. Ringegni , G. E. Romero , J. M. Salum , A. Schillaci , C. G. Scoccola , S. Scully , S. Spinelli , M. Stolpovskiy , A. D. Supanitsky , P. Timbie , M. Tomasi , C. Tucker , G. Tucker , D. Vigano , N. Vittorio , F. Wicek , M. Wright , A. Zullo

Revisiting CFHTLenS cosmic shear: Optimal E/B mode decomposition using COSEBIs and compressed COSEBIs

We present a re-analysis of the CFHTLenS weak gravitational lensing survey using Complete Orthogonal Sets of E/B-mode Integrals, known as COSEBIs. COSEBIs provide a complete set of functions to efficiently separate E-modes from B-modes and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-22 Marika Asgari , Catherine Heymans , Chris Blake , Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Peter Schneider , Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Planck early results: first assessment of the High Frequency Instrument in-flight performance

The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) is designed to measure the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background and galactic foregrounds in six wide bands centered at 100, 143, 217, 353, 545 and 857 GHz at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Planck HFI Core Team , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , R. Ansari , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , A. J. Banday , M. Bartelmann , J. G. Bartlett , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benot , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , R. Bhatia , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , T. Bradshaw , E. Brelle , M. Bucher , P. Camus , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , J. Charra , M. Charra , R. -R. Chary , C. Chiang , S. Church , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , C. Cressiot , B. P. Crill , M. Crook , P. de Bernardis , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , F. -X. Désert , K. Dolag , H. Dole , O. Doré , M. Douspis , G. Efstathiou , P. Eng , C. Filliard , O. Forni , P. Fosalba , J. -J. Fourmond , K. Ganga , M. Giard , D. Girard , Y. Giraud-Héraud , R. Gispert , K. M. Gorski , S. Gratton , M. Griffin , G. Guyot , J. Haissinski , D. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , S. R. Hildebrandt , R. Hills , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , K. M. Huenberger , A. H. Jae , W. C. Jones , J. Kaplan , R. Kneissl , L. Knox , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , P. Lami , A. E. Lange , A. Lasenby , A. Lavabre , C. R. Lawrence , B. Leriche , C. Leroy , Y. Longval , J. F. Macas-Perez , T. Maciaszek , C. J. MacTavish , B. Maei , N. Mandolesi , R. Mann , B. Mansoux , S. Masi , T. Matsumura , P. McGehee , J. -B. Melin , C. Mercier , M. -A. Miville-Deschnes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , D. Mortlock , A. Murphy , F. Nati , C. B. Nettereld , H. U. Norgaard-Nielsen , C. North , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , S. Osborne , C. Paine , F. Pajot , G. Patanchon , T. Peacocke , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , R. Pons , N. Ponthieu , G. Prezeau , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , W. T. Reach , C. Renault , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , M. Rowan-Robinson , B. Rusholme , D. Santos , G. Savini , B. M. Schaefer , P. Shellard , L. Spencer , J. -L. Starck , P. Stassi , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sudiwala , R. Sunyaev , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , C. Thum , J. -P. Torre , F. Touze , M. Tristram , F. Van Leeuwen , L. Vibert , D. Vibert , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , S. D. M. White , H. Wiesemeyer , A. Woodcraft , V. Yurchenko , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei

Multi-parameter estimation of the state of two interfering photonic qubits

It is demonstrated a two-photon interfering technique based on polarization-resolved measurements for the simultaneous estimation with the maximum sensitivity achievable in nature of multiple parameters associated with the polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 L. Maggio , D. Triggiani , P. Facchi , V. Tamma

Blind component separation for polarized observations of the CMB

We present in this paper the PolEMICA (Polarized Expectation-Maximization Independent Component Analysis) algorithm which is an extension to polarization of the SMICA (Spectral Matching Independent Component Analysis) temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Aumont , J. F. Macias-Perez

Statistical simulations of the dust foreground to CMB polarization

The characterization of the dust polarization foreground to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a necessary step towards the detection of the B-mode signal associated with primordial gravitational waves. We present a method to simulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Flavien Vansyngel , François Boulanger , Tuhin Ghosh , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Jonathan Aumont , Andrea Bracco , François Levrier , Peter G. Martin , Ludovic Montier

Separating polarized cosmological and galactic emissions for CMB B-mode polarization experiments

In this work we study the relevance of the component separation technique based on the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and investigate its performance in the context of a limited sky coverage observation and from the viewpoint of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Federico Stivoli , Carlo Baccigalupi , Davide Maino , Radek Stompor

Making maps of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization for B-mode studies: the POLARBEAR example

Analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) datasets typically requires some filtering of the raw time-ordered data. Filtering is frequently used to minimize the impact of low frequency noise, atmospheric contributions and/or scan…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Davide Poletti , Giulio Fabbian , Maude Le Jeune , Julien Peloton , Kam Arnold , Carlo Baccigalupi , Darcy Barron , Shawn Beckman , Julian Borrill , Scott Chapman , Yuji Chinone , Ari Cukierman , Anne Ducout , Tucker Elleflot , Josquin Errard , Stephen Feeney , Neil Goeckner-Wald , John Groh , Grantland Hall , Masaya Hasegawa , Masashi Hazumi , Charles Hill , Logan Howe , Yuki Inoue , Andrew H. Jaffe , Oliver Jeong , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Reijo Keskitalo , Theodore Kisner , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , David Leon , Eric Linder , Lindsay Lowry , Frederick Matsuda , Martin Navaroli , Hans Paar , Giuseppe Puglisi , Christian L. Reichardt , Colin Ross , Praween Siritanasak , Nathan Stebor , Bryan Steinbach , Radek Stompor , Aritoki Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Grant Teply , Nathan Whitehorn

Improved Absolute Polarization Calibrator for BICEP CMB Polarimeters

Cosmic birefringence is a hypothesized parity violation in electromagnetism that predicts a frequency-independent polarization rotation as light propagates. This would rotate the light from the Cosmic Microwave Background, producing an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 A. R. Polish , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , V. Buza , B. Cantrall , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. Denison , L. Duband , M. Echter , M. Eiben , B. D. Elwood , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , A. Fortes , M. Gao , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , S. Gratton , J. A. Grayson , A. Greathouse , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , T. D. Hoang , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. H. Kang , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. Kuo , K. Lasko , K. K. Lau , M. Lautzenhiser , A. Lennox , T. Liu , S. Mackey , N. Maher , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. N. Paine , A. Patel , M. A. Petroff , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , T. Romand , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , A. Steiger , B. Steinbach , R. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Verges , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , C. Yu , L. Zheng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Polarized CMB: Reionization and Primordial Tensor modes

We discuss upcoming opportunities with cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations during the post-WMAP era. The curl-modes of CMB polarization probe inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs). While a significant source of confusion is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asantha Cooray