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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…

Large angular scale surveys in the absence of atmosphere are essential for measuring the primordial $B$-mode power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Since this proposed measurement is about three to four orders of magnitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Y. Takase , L. Vacher , H. Ishino , G. Patanchon , L. Montier , S. L. Stever , K. Ishizaka , Y. Nagano , W. Wang , J. Aumont , K. Aizawa , A. Anand , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , M. Bortolami , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , E. Carinos , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , T. de Haan , E. de la Hoz , S. Della Torre , P. Diego-Palazuelos , G. D'Alessandro , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , F. Finelli , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , R. González González , A. Gruppuso , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , K. Ikuma , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , M. Lembo , F. Levrier , A. I. Lonappan , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , B. Maffei , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , F. T. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , M. Migliaccio , M. Monelli , G. Morgante , B. Mot , R. Nagata , T. Namikawa , A. Novelli , K. Odagiri , S. Oguri , R. Omae , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , N. Raffuzzi , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , M. Ruiz-Granda , Y. Sakurai , D. Scott , Y. Sekimoto , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , R. M. Sullivan , H. Takakura , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , B. van Tent , P. Vielva , I. K. Wehus , B. Westbrook , G. Weymann-Despres , E. J. Wollack , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

Precise measurement of the foreground synchrotron emission, which contaminates the faint polarized cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), is a major challenge for the next-generation of CMB experiments. To address this, dedicated…

We compute the expected sensitivity on measurements of optical depth to reionization for a ground-based experiment at Teide Observatory. We simulate polarized partial sky maps for the GroundBIRD experiment at the frequencies 145 and 220…

Precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are crucial in cosmology, because any proposed model of the universe must account for the features of this radiation. Of all CMB measurements that the scientific community has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Claudia Nones , Stefanos Marnieros , Alain Benoit , Laurent Bergé , Aurelien Bideau , Philippe Camus , Louis Dumoulin , Alessandro Monfardini , Olivier Rigaut

We review advances in low temperature detector (LTD) arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiments, with a particular emphasis on imaging arrays. We briefly motivate the science case, which has spurred a large number…

B-modes of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization can be created by a primordial gravitational wave background. If this background was created by Inflation, then the amplitude of the polarization signal is proportional the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexandre Amblard , Asantha Cooray , Manoj Kaplinghat

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Devices (MKIDs) are poised to allow for massively and natively multiplexed photon detectors arrays and are a natural choice for the next-generation CMB-Stage 4 experiment which will require 105 detectors. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-06 Ritoban Basu Thakur , Jason Henning , Peter Stuart Barry , Erik Shirokoff , Qing Yang Tang

In addition to its spectrum and temperature anisotropy, the 2.7K Cosmic Microwave Background is also expected to exhibit a low level of polarization. The spatial power spectrum of the polarization can provide details about the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Brian Keating , Peter Timbie , Alexander Polnarev , Julia Steinberger

LiteBIRD is the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation polarization satellite mission led by ISAS/JAXA. The main scientific goal is to search for primordial gravitational wave signals generated from the inflation epoch of the Universe.…

We present a study of unbiased reconstruction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization maps from data collected by modern ground-based observatories. Atmospheric emission is a major source of correlated noise in such experiments,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Simon Biquard , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

LiteBIRD is a space-borne experiment dedicated to detecting large-scale $B$-mode anisotropies in the linear polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) predicted by the theory of inflation. It is planned to be launched in the late…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Mayu Tominaga , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Graeme Smecher , Hirokazu Ishino

LiteBIRD is a proposed JAXA satellite mission to measure the CMB B-mode polarization with unprecedented sensitivity ($\sigma_r\sim 0.001$). To achieve this goal, $4676$ state-of-the-art TES bolometers will observe the whole sky for 3 years…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-03 Tommaso Ghigna , Tomotake Matsumura , Masashi Hazumi , Samantha Lynn Stever , Yuki Sakurai , Nobuhiko Katayama , Aritoki Suzuki , Benjamin Westbrook , Adrian Lee

This work aims to demonstrate that two arrays of Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKIDs), when employed in filled array configuration and separated by an external linear polarizer oriented at 45 degrees, can achieve the…

We present measurements of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) E-mode polarization from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 90 GHz data. Using 115 det-yr of observations collected through 2024 with a variable-delay…

Detecting B-mode polarization anisotropies on large angular scales in the CMB polarization pattern is one of the major challenges in modern observational cosmology since it would give us an important evidence in favor of the inflationary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Federico Incardona

First results of a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy experiment conducted at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain) are presented. The instrument is a four channel (3.1, 2.1, 1.3 and 1.1 mm) $^3$He bolometer system coupled…

Characterization of the minute cosmic microwave background polarization signature requires multi-frequency, high-throughput precision instrument systems. We have previously described the detector fabrication of a 40 GHz focal plane and now…

LiteBIRD, a forthcoming satellite mission, aims to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) across the entire sky. The experiment will employ three telescopes, Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers and rotating…