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We investigate the performance of a simple Bayesian fitting approach to correct the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization for gravitational lensing effects in the recovered probability distribution of the tensor-to-scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-28 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , I. K. Wehus

The observation of the polarised emission from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from future ground-based and satellite-borne experiments holds the promise of indirectly detecting the elusive signal from primordial tensor fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Susanna Azzoni , David Alonso , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Josquin Errard , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff

We present an analysis of errors on the tensor-to-scalar ratio due to residual diffuse foregrounds. We use simulated observations of a CMB polarization satellite, the Cosmic Origins Explorer, using the specifications of the version proposed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

The measurement of the large-scale B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a fundamental goal of future CMB experiments. However, because of unprecedented sensitivity, future CMB experiments will be much more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , H. K. K. Eriksen , I. K. Wehus

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is an important cosmological tool that allows us to learn about the structure, composition and evolution of the Universe. Upcoming CMB experiments, such as the Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Mark Mirmelstein , Giulio Fabbian , Antony Lewis , Julien Peloton

We demonstrate that, for the baseline design of the CORE satellite mission, the polarized foregrounds can be controlled at the level required to allow the detection of the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Remazeilles , A. J. Banday , C. Baccigalupi , S. Basak , A. Bonaldi , G. De Zotti , J. Delabrouille , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , R. Fernandez-Cobos , U. Fuskeland , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. López-Caniego , E. Martinez-González , M. Roman , P. Vielva , I. Wehus , A. Achucarro , P. Ade , R. Allison , M. Ashdown , M. Ballardini , R. Banerji , N. Bartolo , J. Bartlett , D. Baumann , M. Bersanelli , M. Bonato , J. Borrill , F. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , T. Brinckmann , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , A. Buzzelli , Z. -Y. Cai , M. Calvo , C. -S. Carvalho , G. Castellano , A. Challinor , J. Chluba , S. Clesse , I. Colantoni , A. Coppolecchia , M. Crook , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , G. de Gasperis , J. -M. Diego , E. Di Valentino , S. Feeney , S. Ferraro , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , S. Galli , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , J. González-Nuevo , S. Grandis , J. Greenslade , S. Hagstotz , S. Hanany , W. Handley , C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , M. Hills , E. Hivon , K. Kiiveri , T. Kisner , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , L. Lamagna , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , J. Lesgourgues , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , V. Lindholm , G. Luzzi , B. Maffei , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Masi , D. McCarthy , J. -B. Melin , A. Melchiorri , D. Molinari , A. Monfardini , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , A. Notari , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , M. Piat , G. Pisano , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , A. Pollo , V. Poulin , M. Quartin , J. -A. Rubino-Martin , L. Salvati , A. Tartari , M. Tomasi , D. Tramonte , N. Trappe , T. Trombetti , C. Tucker , J. Valiviita , R. Van de Weijgaert , B. van Tent , V. Vennin , N. Vittorio , K. Young , M. Zannoni

Next generation CMB experiments such as CMB-S4 aim at measuring the CMB lensing potential at sub-percent precision where most of the constraining power will come from CMB polarization. We investigate the prospects of achieving this goal in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Dominic Beck , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over angular scales between 1 arcminute and tens of degrees using over 60,000 detectors and sampling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-08 Nicholas Galitzki

One of the major targets for next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments is the detection of the primordial B-mode signal. Planning is under way for Stage-IV experiments that are projected to have instrumental noise small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Zhen Pan , Ethan Anderes , Lloyd Knox

The current limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio from the BICEP/Keck Collaboration (with r<0.036 at 95% confidence) puts pressure on early universe models, with less than 10% of the error on r attributed to uncertainty in Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 Heather Prince , Erminia Calabrese , Jo Dunkley

We present a formalism for performance forecasting and optimization of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. We implement it in the context of nearly full sky, multifrequency, B-mode polarization observations, incorporating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Josquin Errard , Federico Stivoli , Radek Stompor

The CMB's B-mode polarization provides a handle on several cosmological parameters most notably the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, and is sensitive to parameters which govern the growth of large scale structure (LSS) and evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 N. J. Miller , M. Shimon , B. G. Keating

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular scales between 1 arcminute and tens of degrees, contain over…

Distortions in the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) along the line-of-sight can be modeled and described using 11 fields. These distortion fields correspond to various cosmological signals such as weak gravitational lensing of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Amit P. S. Yadav , Meng Su , Matias Zaldarriaga

Precise estimation of cosmological parameters from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) remains a central goal of modern cosmology and a key test of inflationary physics. However, this task is fundamentally limited by strong foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Larissa Santos , Camila P. Novaes , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Carlo Baccigalupi

We present a follow-up study to the method recently proposed by Namikawa and Sherwin (2023) to probe gravitational waves using cross-correlations between two cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-modes and a large-scale structure tracer. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Toshiya Namikawa , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Blake D. Sherwin

The search for primordial $B$-mode polarization of the CMB is limited by the sample variance of $B$-modes produced at later times by gravitational lensing. Constraints can be improved by `delensing': using some proxy of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Simone Ferraro

Estimation of the B-mode angular power spectrum of polarized anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a key step towards a full exploitation of the scientific potential of this probe. In the context of pseudo-spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 A. Ferte , J. Grain , M. Tristram , R. Stompor