English
Related papers

Related papers: Systematic effect induced by misalignment in a Ref…

200 papers

The ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments are susceptible to various instrumental errors, especially for $B$-mode measurements. The difference between the response of two polarized detectors, referred to as the beam…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Jiazheng Dou , Jiakang Han , Wen Zhao , Bin Hu

Present cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations have significantly advanced our understanding of the universe's origin, especially with primordial gravitational waves (PGWs). Currently, ground-based CMB telescopes are mainly located…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Dongdong Zhang , Bo Wang , Jia-Rui Li , Yi-Fu Cai , Chang Feng

Matter inhomogeneities along the line of sight deflect the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons originating at the last scattering surface at redshift $z \sim 1100$. These distortions modify the pattern of CMB polarization. We identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jacek Guzik , Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

The LiteBIRD mission is a JAXA strategic L-class mission for all sky CMB surveys which will be launched in the 2020s. The main target of the mission is the detection of primordial gravitational waves with a sensitivity ofthe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Fabio Columbro , Paolo de Bernardis , Luca Lamagna , Silvia Masi , Alessandro Paiella , Francesco Piacentini , Giampaolo Pisano

LiteBIRD is a JAXA strategic L-class mission devoted to the measurement of polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, searching for the signature of primordial gravitational waves in the B-modes pattern of the polarization. The…

Recent measurements of the temperature field of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide tantalising evidence for violation of Statistical Isotropy (SI) that constitutes a fundamental tenet of contemporary cosmology. CMB space based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Suvodip Mukherjee , Tarun Souradeep

The most convincing confirmation that the B-mode polarization signal detected at degree scales by BICEP2 is due to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) would be the measurement of its large-scale counterpart. We assess the requirements for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Bonaldi , S. Ricciardi , M. L. Brown

Polarimetry of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) represents one of the possible diagnostics aimed at testing large-scale magnetism at the epoch of the photon decoupling. The propagation of electromagnetic disturbances in a magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Massimo Giovannini , Kerstin E. Kunze

The LiteBIRD satellite mission aims at detecting Cosmic Microwave Background $B$ modes with unprecedented precision, targeting a total error on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ of $\delta r \sim 0.001$. Operating from the L2 Lagrangian point…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 M. Bortolami , N. Raffuzzi , L. Pagano , G. Puglisi , A. Anand , A. J. Banday , P. Campeti , G. Galloni , A. I. Lonappan , M. Monelli , M. Tomasi , G. Weymann-Despres , D. Adak , E. Allys , J. Aumont , R. Aurvik , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , A. Besnard , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , E. Carinos , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , M. Citran , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , P. Dal Bo , P. de Bernardis , E. de la Hoz , M. De Lucia , S. Della Torre , P. Diego-Palazuelos , H. K. Eriksen , T. Essinger-Hileman , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , M. Galloway , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , A. Gruppuso , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , E. Hivon , B. Jost , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , T. Lari , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , F. Levrier , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , L. Mousset , R. Nagata , T. Namikawa , A. Novelli , F. Noviello , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , M. Ruiz-Granda , J. Sanghavi , V. Sauvage , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , S. L. Stever , R. M. Sullivan , Y. Takase , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , P. Vielva , I. K. Wehus , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

The BICEP experiment was designed specifically to search for the signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Using a novel small-aperture refractor and 49 pairs of…

Polarization modulation is a powerful technique to increase the stability of measurements by enabling the distinction of a polarized signal from dominant slow system drifts and unpolarized foregrounds. Furthermore, when placed as close to…

Cosmic polarization rotation, which may result from parity-violating new physics or the presence of primordial magnetic fields, converts $E$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) into $B$-mode polarization. Anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-20 Eric Guzman , Joel Meyers

The delensing procedure is an effective tool for removing lensing-induced $B$-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background to allow for deep searches of primordial $B$-modes. However, the delensing algorithm existing in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-01 Wei-Hsiang Teng , Chao-Lin Kuo , Jiun-Huei Proty Wu

We discuss the future detectability of gravitational-wave induced lensing from high-sensitivity cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Gravitational waves can induce a rotational component of the weak-lensing deflection angle,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-11 Toshiya Namikawa , Daisuke Yamauchi , Atsushi Taruya

The B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies at large angular scales provides a smoking-gun evidence for the primordial gravitational waves (GWs). It is often stated that a discovery of the GWs establishes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Maresuke Shiraishi , Chiaki Hikage , Ryo Namba , Toshiya Namikawa , Masashi Hazumi

In our previous study, we introduced a machine-learning technique, namely CMBFSCNN, for the removal of foreground contamination in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization data. This method was successfully employed on actual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-19 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Guo-Jian Wang , Zirui Zhang , Jun-Qing Xia

A stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) will affect the CMB anisotropies via weak lensing. Unlike weak lensing due to large scale structure which only deflects photon trajectories, a SGWB has an additional effect of rotating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Shabbir Shaikh , Suvodip Mukherjee , Aditya Rotti , Tarun Souradeep

Precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, especially experiments seeking to detect the odd-parity "B-modes", have far-reaching implications for cosmology. To detect the B-modes generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-27 Brian Keating , Meir Shimon , Amit Yadav

Cosmic birefringence$-$the rotation of the polarization plane of light as it traverses the universe$-$offers a direct observational window into parity-violating physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we revisit the anisotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 A. I. Lonappan , B. Keating , K. Arnold