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1. From BeyondPlanck to Cosmoglobe: Open Science, Reproducibility, and Data Longevity

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S. Gerakakis, M. Brilenkov, M. Ieronymaki, M. San, D. J. Watts, K. J. Andersen, R. Aurlien, R. Banerji, A. Basyrov, M. Bersanelli, S. Bertocco, M. Carbone, L. P. L. Colombo, H. K. Eriksen, J. R. Eskilt, M. K. Foss, C. Franceschet, U. Fuskeland, S. Galeotta, M. Galloway, E. Gjerløw, B. Hensley, D. Herman, M. Iacobellis, H. T. Ihle, J. B. Jewell, A. Karakci, E. Keihänen, R. Keskitalo, J. G. S. Lunde, G. Maggio, D. Maino, M. Maris, S. Paradiso, M. Reinecke, N.-O. Stutzer, A.-S. Suur-Uski, T. L. Svalheim, D. Tavagnacco, H. Thommesen, I. K. Wehus, and A. Zacchei

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Astronomy, QB1-991, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

The BeyondPlanck and Cosmoglobe collaborations have implemented the first integrated Bayesian end-to-end analysis pipeline for CMB experiments. The primary long-term motivation for this work is to develop a common analysis platform that supports efficient global joint analysis of complementary radio, microwave, and sub-millimeter experiments. A strict prerequisite for this to succeed is broad participation from the CMB community, and two foundational aspects of the program are therefore reproducibility and Open Science. In this paper, we discuss our efforts toward this aim. We also discuss measures toward facilitating easy code and data distribution, community-based code documentation, user-friendly compilation procedures, etc. This work represents the first publicly released end-to-end CMB analysis pipeline that includes raw data, source code, parameter files, and documentation. We argue that such a complete pipeline release should be a requirement for all major future and publicly-funded CMB experiments, noting that a full public release significantly increases data longevity by ensuring that the data quality can be improved whenever better processing techniques, complementary datasets, or more computing power become available, and thereby also taxpayers' value for money; providing only raw data and final products is not sufficient to guarantee full reproducibility in the future.

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2023
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2. Tensor-to-scalar ratio forecasts for extended LiteBIRD frequency configurations

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U. Fuskeland, J. Aumont, R. Aurlien, C. Baccigalupi, A. J. Banday, H. K. Eriksen, J. Errard, R. T. Génova-Santos, T. Hasebe, J. Hubmayr, H. Imada, N. Krachmalnicof, L. Lamagna, G. Pisano, D. Poletti, M. Remazeilles, K. L. Thompson, L. Vache, I. K. Wehus, S. Azzoni, M. Ballardini, R. B. Barreiro, N. Bartolo, A. Basyrov, D. Beck, M. Bersanelli, M. Bortolami, M. Brilenkov, E. Calabrese, A. Carones, F. J. Casas, K. Cheung, J. Chluba, S. E. Clark, L. Clermont, and E.J. Wollack

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Space Sciences (General)
Abstract

LiteBIRD is a planned JAXA-led cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode satellite experiment aiming for launch in the late 2020s, with a primary goal of detecting the imprint of primordial inflationary gravitational waves. Its current baseline focal-plane configuration includes 15 frequency bands between 40 and 402 GHz, fulfilling the mission requirements to detect the amplitude of gravitational waves with the total uncertainty on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, δr, down to δr < 0.001. A key aspect of this performance is accurate astrophysical component separation, and the ability to remove polarized thermal dust emission is particularly important. In this paper we note that the CMB frequency spectrum falls off nearly exponentially above 300 GHz relative to the thermal dust spectral energy distribution, and a relatively minor high frequency extension can therefore result in even lower uncertainties and better model reconstructions. Specifically, we compared the baseline design with five extended configurations, while varying the underlying dust modeling, in each of which the High-Frequency Telescope (HFT) frequency range was shifted logarithmically toward higher frequencies, with an upper cutoff ranging between 400 and 600 GHz. In each case, we measured the tensor-to-scalar ratio r uncertainty and bias using both parametric and minimum-variance component-separation algorithms. When the thermal dust sky model includes a spatially varying spectral index and temperature, we find that the statistical uncertainty on r after foreground cleaning may be reduced by as much as 30–50% by extending the upper limit of the frequency range from 400 to 600 GHz, with most of the improvement already gained at 500 GHz. We also note that a broader frequency range leads to higher residuals when fitting an incorrect dust model, but also it is easier to discriminate between models through higher χ2 sensitivity. Even in the case in which the fitting procedure does not correspond to the underlying dust model in the sky, and when the highest frequency data cannot be modeled with sufficient fidelity and must be excluded from the analysis, the uncertainty on r increases by only about 5% for a 500 GHz configuration compared to the baseline.

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2023
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3. Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD Satellite Mission

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L. Montier, B. Mot, P. de Bernardis, B. Maffei, G. Pisano, F. Columbro, J. E. Gudmundsson, S. Henrot-Versillé, L. Lamagna, J. Montgomery, T. Prouvé, M. Russell, G. Savini, S. Stever, K. L. Thompson, M. Tsujimoto, C. Tucker, B. Westbrook, P. A.R. Ade, A. Adler, E. Allys, K. Arnold, D. Auguste, J. Aumont, R. Aurlien, J. Austermann, C. Baccigalupi, A. J. Banda, R. Banerji, R. B. Barreiro, S. Basak, J. Beall, D. Beck, S. Beckman, J. Bermejo, M. Bersanelli, J. Bonis, J. Borrill, F. Boulanger, S. Bounissou, M. Brilenkov, M. Brown, M. Bucher, E. Calabrese, P. Campeti, A. Carones, F. J. Casas, A. Challinor, V. Chan, K. Cheung, Y. Chinone, J. F. Cliché, L. Colombo, J. Cubas, A. Cukierman, D. Curtis, G. D’Alessandro, N. Dachlythra, M. De Petris, C. Dickinson, P. Diego-Palazuelos, M. Dobbs, T. Dotani, L. Duband, S. Duff, J. M. Duval, K. Ebisawa, T. Elleflot, H. K. Eriksen, J. Errard, T. Essinger-Hileman, F. Finelli, R. Flauger, C. Franceschet, U. Fuskeland, M. Galloway, K. Ganga, J. R. Gao, R. Genova-Santos, M. Gerbino, M. Gervasi, T. Ghigna, E. Gjerløw, M. L. Gradziel, J. Grain, F. Grupp, A. Gruppuso, T. de Haan, N. W. Halverson, P. Hargrave, T. Hasebe, M. Hasegawa, M. Hattori, M. Hazumi, D. Herman, D. Herranz, C. A. Hill, G. Hilton, Y. Hirota, E. Hivon, R. A. Hlozek, Y. Hoshino, E. de la Hoz, J. Hubmayr, K. Ichiki, T. Iida, H. Imada, K. Ishimura, H. Ishino, G. Jaehnig, T. Kaga, S. Kashima, N. Katayama, A. Kato, T. Kawasaki, R. Keskitalo, T. Kisner, Y. Kobayashi, N. Kogiso, A. Kogut, K. Kohri, E. Komatsu, K. Komatsu, K. Konishi, N. Krachmalnicoff, I. Kreykenbohm, C. L. Kuo, A. Kushino, J. V. Lanen, M. Lattanzi, A.T. Lee, C. Leloup, F. Levrier, E. Linder, T. Louis, G. Luzzi, T. Maciaszek, D. Maino, M. Maki, S. Mandelli, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, S. Masi, T. Matsumura, A. Mennella, M. Migliaccio, Y. Minami, K. Mitsuda, G. Morgante, Y. Murata, J. A. Murphy, M. Nagai, Y. Nagano, T. Nagasaki, R. Nagata, S. Nakamura, T. Namikawa, P. Natoli, S. Nerval, T. Nishibori, H. Nishino, C. O’Sullivan, H. Ogawa, S. Oguri, H. Ohsaki, I. S. Ohta, N. Okada, L. Pagano, A. Paiella, D. Paoletti, G. Patanchon, J. Peloton, F. Piacentini, G. Polenta, D. Poletti, G. Puglisi, D. Rambaud, C. Raum, S. Realini, M. Reinecke, M. Remazeilles, A. Ritacco, G. Roudil, J. A. Rubino-Martin, H. Sakurai, Y. Sakurai, M. Sandri, M. Sasaki, D. Scott, J. Seibert, Y. Sekimoto, B. Sherwin, K. Shinozaki, M. Shiraishi, P. J. Shirron, G. Signorelli, G. Smecher, R. Stompor, H. Sugai, S. Sugiyama, A. Suzuki, J. Suzuki, T. L. Svalheim, E. Switzer, R. Takaku, H. Takakura, S. Takakura, Y. Takase, Y. Takeda, A. Tartari, E. Taylor, Y. Terao, H. Thommesen, B. Thorne, T. Toda, M. Tomasi, M. Tominaga, N. Trappe, M. Tristram, M. Tsuji, J. Ullom, G. Vermeulen, P. Vielva, F. Villa, M. Vissers, N. Vittorio, I. Wehus, J. Weller, J. Wilms, B. Winter, E. J. Wollack, N. Y. Yamasaki, T. Yoshida, J. Yumoto, M. Zannoni, and A. Zonca

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Instrumentation And Photography, Astrophysics
Abstract

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Universe, through the measurements of their imprint onto the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These measurements, requiring unprecedented sensitivity, will be performed over the full sky, at large angular scales, and over 15 frequency bands from 34 GHz to 448 GHz. The LiteBIRD instruments consist of three telescopes, namely the Low-, Medium- and High-Frequency Telescope (respectively LFT, MFT and HFT). We present in this paper an overview of the design of the Medium-Frequency Telescope (89–224 GHz) and the High-Frequency Telescope (166–448 GHz), the so-called MHFT, under European responsibility, which are two cryogenic refractive telescopes cooled down to 5 K. They include a continuous rotating half-wave plate as the first optical element, two high-density polyethylene (HDPE) lenses and more than three thousand transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors cooled to 100 mK. We provide an overview of the concept design and the remaining specific challenges that we have to face in order to achieve the scientific goals of LiteBIRD.

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2020
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4. Optical Characterization of OMT-Coupled TES Bolometers for LiteBIRD

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J. Hubmayr, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler, E. Allys, D. Alonso, K. Arnold, D. Auguste, J. Aumont, R. Aurlien, J. E. Austermann, S. Azzoni, C. Baccigalupi, A. J. Banday, R. Banerji, R. B. Barreiro, N. Bartolo, S. Basak, E. Battistelli, L. Bautista, J. A. Beall, D. Beck, S. Beckman, K. Benabed, J. Bermejo-Ballesteros, M. Bersanelli, J. Bonis, J. Borrill, F. Bouchet, F. Boulanger, S. Bounissou, M. Brilenkov, M. L. Brown, M. Bucher, E. Calabrese, M. Calvo, P. Campeti, A. Carones, F. J. Casas, A. Catalano, A. Challinor, V. Chan, K. Cheung, Y. Chinone, C. Chiocchetta, S. E. Clark, L. Clermont, S. Clesse, J. Cliche, F. Columbro, J. A. Connors, A. Coppolecchia, W. Coulton, J. Cubas, A. Cukierman, D. Curtis, F. Cuttaia, G. D’Alessandro, K. Dachlythra, P. de Bernardis, T. de Haan, E. de la Hoz, M. De Petris, S. Della Torre, J. J. Daz Garca, C. Dickinson, P. Diego-Palazuelos, M. Dobbs, T. Dotani, D. Douillet, E. Doumayrou, L. Duband, A. Ducout, S. M. Duff, J. M. Duval, K. Ebisawa, T. Elleflot, H. K. Eriksen, J. Errard, T. Essinger-Hileman, S. Farrens, F. Finelli, R. Flauger, K. Fleury-Frenette, C. Franceschet, U. Fuskeland, L. Galli, S. Galli, M. Galloway, K. Ganga, J. R. Gao, R. T. Genova-Santos, M. Georges, M. Gerbino, M. Gervasi, T. Ghigna, S. Giardiello, E. Gjerlw, R. Gonzlez Gonzles, M. L. Gradziel, J. Grain, L. Grandsire, F. Grupp, A. Gruppuso, J. E. Gudmundsson, N. W. Halverson, J. Hamilton, P. Hargrave, T. Hasebe, M. Hasegawa, M. Hattori, M. Hazumi, S. Henrot-Versill, B. Hensley, D. Herman, D. Herranz, G. C. Hilton, E. Hivon, R. A. Hlozek, D. Hoang, A. L. Hornsby, Y. Hoshino, K. Ichiki, T. Iida, T. Ikemoto, H. Imada, K. Ishimura, H. Ishino, G. Jaehnig, M. Jones, T. Kaga, S. Kashima, N. Katayama, A. Kato, T. Kawasaki, R. Keskitalo, C. Kintziger, T. Kisner, Y. Kobayashi, N. Kogiso, A. Kogut, K. Kohri, E. Komatsu, K. Komatsu, K. Konishi, N. Krachmalnicoff, I. Kreykenbohm, C. L. Kuo, A. Kushino, L. Lamagna, J. V. Lanen, G. Laquaniello, M. Lattanzi, A. T. Lee, C. Leloup, F. Levrier, E. Linder, M. J. Link, A. I. Lonappan, T. Louis, G. Luzzi, J. Macias-Perez, T. Maciaszek, B. Maffei, D. Maino, M. Maki, S. Mandelli, M. Maris, B. Marquet, E. Martnez-Gonzlez, F. A. Martire, S. Masi, M. Massa, M. Masuzawa, S. Matarrese, F. T. Matsuda, T. Matsumura, L. Mele, A. Mennella, M. Migliaccio, Y. Minami, K. Mitsuda, A. Moggi, M. Monelli, A. Monfardini, J. Montgomery, L. Montier, G. Morgante, B. Mot, Y. Murata, J. A. Murphy, M. Nagai, Y. Nagano, T. Nagasaki, R. Nagata, S. Nakamura, R. Nakano, T. Namikawa, F. Nati, P. Natoli, S. Nerval, N. Neto Godry Farias, T. Nishibori, H. Nishino, F. Noviello, G. C. O’Neil, C. O’Sullivan, K. Odagiri, H. Ochi, H. Ogawa, S. Oguri, H. Ohsaki, I. S. Ohta, N. Okada, L. Pagano, A. Paiella, D. Paoletti, G. Pascual Cisneros, A. Passerini, G. Patanchon, V. Pelgrim, J. Peloton, V. Pettorino, F. Piacentini, M. Piat, G. Piccirilli, F. Pinsard, G. Pisano, J. Plesseria, G. Polenta, D. Poletti, T. Prouv, G. Puglisi, D. Rambaud, C. Raum, S. Realini, M. Reinecke, C. D. Reintsema, M. Remazeilles, A. Ritacco, P. Rosier, G. Roudil, J. Rubino-Martin, M. Russell, H. Sakurai, Y. Sakurai, M. Sandri, M. Sasaki, G. Savini, D. Scott, J. Seibert, Y. Sekimoto, B. Sherwin, K. Shinozaki, M. Shiraishi, P. Shirron, A. Shitvov, G. Signorelli, G. Smecher, F. Spinella, J. Starck, S. Stever, R. Stompor, R. Sudiwala, S. Sugiyama, R. Sullivan, A. Suzuki, J. Suzuki, T. Suzuki, T. L. Svalheim, E. Switzer, R. Takaku, H. Takakura, S. Takakura, Y. Takase, Y. Takeda, A. Tartari, D. Tavagnacco, A. Taylor, E. Taylor, Y. Terao, L. Terenzi, J. Thermeau, H. Thommesen, K. L. Thompson, B. Thorne, T. Toda, M. Tomasi, M. Tominaga, N. Trappe, M. Tristram, M. Tsuji, M. Tsujimoto, C. Tucker, R. Ueki, J. N. Ullom, K. Umemori, L. Vacher, J. Van Lanen, G. Vermeulen, P. Vielva, F. Villa, M. R. Vissers, N. Vittorio, B. Wandelt, W. Wang, I. K. Wehus, J. Weller, B. Westbrook, G. Weymann-Despres, J. Wilms, B. Winter, E. J. Wollack, N. Y. Yamasaki, T. Yoshida, J. Yumoto, K. Watanuki, A. Zacchei, M. Zannoni, A. Zonca, Hubmayr, J, Ade, P, Adler, A, Allys, E, Alonso, D, Arnold, K, Auguste, D, Aumont, J, Aurlien, R, Austermann, J, Azzoni, S, Baccigalupi, C, Banday, A, Banerji, R, Barreiro, R, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Battistelli, E, Bautista, L, Beall, J, Beck, D, Beckman, S, Benabed, K, Bermejo-Ballesteros, J, Bersanelli, M, Bonis, J, Borrill, J, Bouchet, F, Boulanger, F, Bounissou, S, Brilenkov, M, Brown, M, Bucher, M, Calabrese, E, Calvo, M, Campeti, P, Carones, A, Casas, F, Catalano, A, Challinor, A, Chan, V, Cheung, K, Chinone, Y, Chiocchetta, C, Clark, S, Clermont, L, Clesse, S, Cliche, J, Columbro, F, Connors, J, Coppolecchia, A, Coulton, W, Cubas, J, Cukierman, A, Curtis, D, Cuttaia, F, D’Alessandro, G, Dachlythra, K, de Bernardis, P, de Haan, T, de la Hoz, E, De Petris, M, Della Torre, S, Daz Garca, J, Dickinson, C, Diego-Palazuelos, P, Dobbs, M, Dotani, T, Douillet, D, Doumayrou, E, Duband, L, Ducout, A, Duff, S, Duval, J, Ebisawa, K, Elleflot, T, Eriksen, H, Errard, J, Essinger-Hileman, T, Farrens, S, Finelli, F, Flauger, R, Fleury-Frenette, K, Franceschet, C, Fuskeland, U, Galli, L, Galli, S, Galloway, M, Ganga, K, Gao, J, Genova-Santos, R, Georges, M, Gerbino, M, Gervasi, M, Ghigna, T, Giardiello, S, Gjerlw, E, Gonzles, R, Gradziel, M, Grain, J, Grandsire, L, Grupp, F, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, J, Halverson, N, Hamilton, J, Hargrave, P, Hasebe, T, Hasegawa, M, Hattori, M, Hazumi, M, Henrot-Versill, S, Hensley, B, Herman, D, Herranz, D, Hilton, G, Hivon, E, Hlozek, R, Hoang, D, Hornsby, A, Hoshino, Y, Ichiki, K, Iida, T, Ikemoto, T, Imada, H, Ishimura, K, Ishino, H, Jaehnig, G, Jones, M, Kaga, T, Kashima, S, Katayama, N, Kato, A, Kawasaki, T, Keskitalo, R, Kintziger, C, Kisner, T, Kobayashi, Y, Kogiso, N, Kogut, A, Kohri, K, Komatsu, E, Komatsu, K, Konishi, K, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kreykenbohm, I, Kuo, C, Kushino, A, Lamagna, L, Lanen, J, Laquaniello, G, Lattanzi, M, Lee, A, Leloup, C, Levrier, F, Linder, E, Link, M, Lonappan, A, Louis, T, Luzzi, G, Macias-Perez, J, Maciaszek, T, Maffei, B, Maino, D, Maki, M, Mandelli, S, Maris, M, Marquet, B, Martnez-Gonzlez, E, Martire, F, Masi, S, Massa, M, Masuzawa, M, Matarrese, S, Matsuda, F, Matsumura, T, Mele, L, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Minami, Y, Mitsuda, K, Moggi, A, Monelli, M, Monfardini, A, Montgomery, J, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Mot, B, Murata, Y, Murphy, J, Nagai, M, Nagano, Y, Nagasaki, T, Nagata, R, Nakamura, S, Nakano, R, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Natoli, P, Nerval, S, Neto Godry Farias, N, Nishibori, T, Nishino, H, Noviello, F, O’Neil, G, O’Sullivan, C, Odagiri, K, Ochi, H, Ogawa, H, Oguri, S, Ohsaki, H, Ohta, I, Okada, N, Pagano, L, Paiella, A, Paoletti, D, Pascual Cisneros, G, Passerini, A, Patanchon, G, Pelgrim, V, Peloton, J, Pettorino, V, Piacentini, F, Piat, M, Piccirilli, G, Pinsard, F, Pisano, G, Plesseria, J, Polenta, G, Poletti, D, Prouv, T, Puglisi, G, Rambaud, D, Raum, C, Realini, S, Reinecke, M, Reintsema, C, Remazeilles, M, Ritacco, A, Rosier, P, Roudil, G, Rubino-Martin, J, Russell, M, Sakurai, H, Sakurai, Y, Sandri, M, Sasaki, M, Savini, G, Scott, D, Seibert, J, Sekimoto, Y, Sherwin, B, Shinozaki, K, Shiraishi, M, Shirron, P, Shitvov, A, Signorelli, G, Smecher, G, Spinella, F, Starck, J, Stever, S, Stompor, R, Sudiwala, R, Sugiyama, S, Sullivan, R, Suzuki, A, Suzuki, J, Suzuki, T, Svalheim, T, Switzer, E, Takaku, R, Takakura, H, Takakura, S, Takase, Y, Takeda, Y, Tartari, A, Tavagnacco, D, Taylor, A, Taylor, E, Terao, Y, Terenzi, L, Thermeau, J, Thommesen, H, Thompson, K, Thorne, B, Toda, T, Tomasi, M, Tominaga, M, Trappe, N, Tristram, M, Tsuji, M, Tsujimoto, M, Tucker, C, Ueki, R, Ullom, J, Umemori, K, Vacher, L, Van Lanen, J, Vermeulen, G, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vissers, M, Vittorio, N, Wandelt, B, Wang, W, Wehus, I, Weller, J, Westbrook, B, Weymann-Despres, G, Wilms, J, Winter, B, Wollack, E, Yamasaki, N, Yoshida, T, Yumoto, J, Watanuki, K, Zacchei, A, Zannoni, M, Zonca, A, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)

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CMB, TES, OMT, Low temperature detector, Bolometer, FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, General Materials Science, Condensed Matter Physics, CMB, TES, OMT, Low temperature detector, Bolometer, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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et al., Feedhorn- and orthomode transducer- (OMT) coupled transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers have been designed and micro-fabricated to meet the optical specifications of the LiteBIRD high frequency telescope (HFT) focal plane. We discuss the design and optical characterization of two LiteBIRD HFT detector types: dual-polarization, dual-frequency-band pixels with 195/280 GHz and 235/337 GHz band centers. Results show well-matched passbands between orthogonal polarization channels and frequency centers within 3% of the design values. The optical efficiency of each frequency channel is conservatively reported to be within the range 0.64−0.72, determined from the response to a cryogenic, temperature-controlled thermal source. These values are in good agreement with expectations and either exceed or are within 10% of the values used in the LiteBIRD sensitivity forecast. Lastly, we report a measurement of loss in Nb/SiNx/Nb microstrip at 100 mK and over the frequency range 200–350 GHz, which is comparable to values previously reported in the literature., This work is supported by NASA under grant no. 80NSSC18K0132.

Published
2022

5. From BeyondPlanck to Cosmoglobe: Open Science, Reproducibility, and Data Longevity

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S. Gerakakis, M. Brilenkov, M. Ieronymaki, M. San, D. J. Watts, K. J. Andersen, R. Aurlien, R. Banerji, A. Basyrov, M. Bersanelli, S. Bertocco, M. Carbone, L. P. L. Colombo, H. K. Eriksen, J. R. Eskilt, M. K. Foss, C. Franceschet, U. Fuskeland, S. Galeotta, M. Galloway, E. Gjerløw, B. Hensley, D. Herman, M. Iacobellis, H. T. Ihle, J. B. Jewell, A. Karakci, E. Keihänen, R. Keskitalo, J. G. S. Lunde, G. Maggio, D. Maino, M. Maris, S. Paradiso, M. Reinecke, N.-O. Stutzer, A.-S. Suur-Uski, T. L. Svalheim, D. Tavagnacco, H. Thommesen, I. K. Wehus, and A. Zacchei

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, General Medicine, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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The BeyondPlanck and Cosmoglobe collaborations have implemented the first integrated Bayesian end-to-end analysis pipeline for CMB experiments. The primary long-term motivation for this work is to develop a common analysis platform that supports efficient global joint analysis of complementary radio, microwave, and sub-millimeter experiments. A strict prerequisite for this to succeed is broad participation from the CMB community, and two foundational aspects of the program are therefore reproducibility and Open Science. In this paper, we discuss our efforts toward this aim. We also discuss measures toward facilitating easy code and data distribution, community-based code documentation, user-friendly compilation procedures, etc. This work represents the first publicly released end-to-end CMB analysis pipeline that includes raw data, source code, parameter files, and documentation. We argue that such a complete pipeline release should be a requirement for all major future and publicly-funded CMB experiments, noting that a full public release significantly increases data longevity by ensuring that the data quality can be improved whenever better processing techniques, complementary datasets, or more computing power become available, and thereby also taxpayers' value for money; providing only raw data and final products is not sufficient to guarantee full reproducibility in the future.

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2022
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6. Constraints on the spectral index of polarized synchrotron emission from WMAP and Faraday-corrected S-PASS data

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U. Fuskeland, M. Brilenkov, Sigurd Naess, K. J. Andersen, H. K. Eriksen, M. Galloway, R. Banerji, R. Aurlien, T. L. Svalheim, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, and E. Gjerløw

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Field (physics), Cosmic background radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, symbols.namesake, law, 0103 physical sciences, Faraday effect, 010306 general physics, Faraday cage, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Spectral index, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), CMB cold spot, Amplitude, Space and Planetary Science, symbols, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We constrain the spectral index of polarized synchrotron emission, $\beta_s$, by correlating the recently released 2.3 GHz S-Band Polarization All Sky Survey (S-PASS) data with the 23 GHz 9-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) sky maps. We subdivide the S-PASS field, which covers the southern ecliptic hemisphere, into 95 $15^{\circ}\times15^{\circ}$ regions and estimate the spectral index of polarized synchrotron emission within each region using a simple but robust T-T plot technique. Three different versions of the S-PASS data are considered, corresponding to: no correction for Faraday rotation; Faraday correction based on the rotation measure model presented by the S-PASS team; or Faraday correction based on a rotation measure model presented by Hutschenreuter and En{\ss}lin. We find that the correlation between S-PASS and WMAP is strongest when applying the S-PASS model. Adopting this correction model, we find that the mean spectral index of polarized synchrotron emission gradually steepens from $\beta_s\approx-2.8$ at low Galactic latitudes to $\beta_s\approx-3.3$ at high Galactic latitudes, in good agreement with previously published results. Finally, we consider two special cases defined by the BICEP2 and SPIDER fields and obtain mean estimates of $\beta_{BICEP2}=-3.22\pm0.06$ and $\beta_{SPIDER}=-3.21\pm0.03$, respectively. A comparison with a similar analysis performed in the 23-33 GHz range suggests a flattening of about $\Delta\beta_s \sim 0.1 \pm 0.2$ from low to higher frequencies, but with no statistical significance due to high uncertainties., Comment: 16 pages, 15 figures. Figure number 10 and 15 are new. Published in A&A

Published
2021

7. A Monte Carlo comparison between template-based and Wiener-filter CMB dipole estimators

Author

M. Galloway, R. Banerji, H. K. Eriksen, M. Brilenkov, H. Thommesen, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, U. Fuskeland, T. L. Svalheim, L. M. Mocanu, R. Aurlien, and K. J. Andersen

Subjects
Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Monte Carlo method, Cosmic microwave background, Wiener filter, Cosmic background radiation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Spectral density, Estimator, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Dipole, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Statistical physics, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We review and compare two different CMB dipole estimators discussed in the literature, and assess their performances through Monte Carlo simulations. The first method amounts to simple template regression with partial sky data, while the second method is an optimal Wiener filter (or Gibbs sampling) implementation. The main difference between the two methods is that the latter approach takes into account correlations with higher-order CMB temperature fluctuations that arise from non-orthogonal spherical harmonics on an incomplete sky, which for recent CMB data sets (such as Planck) is the dominant source of uncertainty. For an accepted sky fraction of 81% and an angular CMB power spectrum corresponding to the best-fit Planck 2018 $\Lambda$CDM model, we find that the uncertainty on the recovered dipole amplitude is about six times smaller for the Wiener filter approach than for the template approach, corresponding to 0.5 and 3$~\mu$K, respectively. Similar relative differences are found for the corresponding directional parameters and other sky fractions. We note that the Wiener filter algorithm is generally applicable to any dipole estimation problem on an incomplete sky, as long as a statistical and computationally tractable model is available for the unmasked higher-order fluctuations. The methodology described in this paper forms the numerical basis for the most recent determination of the CMB solar dipole from Planck, as summarized by arXiv:2007.04997., Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A&A

Published
2020

8. Concept design of low frequency telescope for CMB B-mode polarization satellite LiteBIRD

Author

Mario G. Lattanzi, Carlo Baccigalupi, François Levrier, J. M. Duval, J. Austermann, M. Brilenkov, B. Thorne, Eiichiro Komatsu, D. Rambaud, T. Nagasaki, Peter Shirron, H. Imada, Nozomu Kogiso, Jeff Van Lanen, H. Takakura, T. Kawasaki, Lionel Duband, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, Y. Hoshino, Tadayasu Dotani, Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez, Tucker Elleflot, S. Beckman, T. Kaga, Shogo Nakamura, A. Kato, Giorgio Savini, S. Bounissou, S. Mandelli, Peter Charles Hargrave, Francois Boulanger, Julien Grain, S. Realini, Reijo Keskitalo, Bruno Maffei, Y. Nagano, Davide Maino, D. Herman, Michael R. Vissers, B. Mot, R. Banerji, N. Katayama, James A. Beall, Johannes Hubmayr, Tomotake Matsumura, Shugo Oguri, G. Patanchon, S. Basak, S. Takakura, Créidhe O'Sullivan, Massimo Gervasi, Y. Takase, S. Stever, A. Carones, Raphael Flauger, F. J. Casas, T. de Haan, Yasuhiro Murata, T. Prouvé, Douglas Scott, P. Vielva, Toshiya Namikawa, Mayu Tominaga, Yuki Sakurai, Luca Lamagna, Eric Hivon, S. Nerval, Ken Ebisawa, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Julian Borrill, Shingo Kashima, Hajime Sugai, M. De Petris, R. Nagata, Ted Kisner, D. W. Curtis, A. Mennella, P. de Bernardis, Alexandre E. Adler, Misao Sasaki, Jiansong Gao, Kam Arnold, K. Ganga, T. Ghigna, Kazunori Kohri, Ben Westbrook, R. Aurlien, T. Toda, Yasuhiro Takeda, U. Fuskeland, Alessandro Gruppuso, Giuseppe Puglisi, A. Ritacco, I. Kreykenbohm, C. Leloup, M. A. Dobbs, Jochen Weller, Joel N. Ullom, Chao-Lin Kuo, M. Migliaccio, Charles A. Hill, E. Allys, Nicola Vittorio, T. Yoshida, R. Takaku, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Alessandro Paiella, J. Aumont, Berend Winter, Junji Yumoto, Yutaka Terao, Aritoki Suzuki, T. Hasebe, Toshiyuki Nishibori, A. Cukierman, P. Campeti, Y. Hirota, Alan J. Kogut, Josquin Errard, S. Sugiyama, L. P. L. Colombo, Anthony Challinor, Yohei Kobayashi, A. Kushino, Gemma Luzzi, Makoto Nagai, M. Sandri, Christopher Raum, Giuseppe D'Alessandro, Masashi Hazumi, Masaya Hasegawa, Renée Hlozek, Silvia Masi, Joseph Seibert, F. Piacentini, J. A. Murphy, Greg Jaehnig, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Davide Poletti, Michael L. Brown, Blake D. Sherwin, Daniela Paoletti, Joshua Montgomery, F. Columbro, Gianluca Morgante, J. Bermejo, M. Tomasi, Haruki Nishino, P. Diego-Palazuelos, Hirokazu Ishino, T. Iida, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Haruyuki Sakurai, Keith L. Thompson, Javier Cubas, Neil Trappe, Keisuke Shinozaki, Adrian T. Lee, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Martina Gerbino, D. Herranz, M. Tsuji, Marco Bersanelli, Nadia Dachlythra, M. Russell, E. Gjerløw, Maresuke Shiraishi, E. de la Hoz, Eric V. Linder, Graeme Smecher, Eric R. Switzer, Erminia Calabrese, G. Roudil, Mario Zannoni, T. Maciaszek, L. Pagano, D. Auguste, Frank Grupp, Kosei Ishimura, Fabrizio Villa, Kuniaki Konishi, I. S. Ohta, G. Signorelli, J. Bonis, A. Tartari, Jun-ichi Suzuki, R. B. Barreiro, J. F. Cliche, M. Maki, Douglas H Beck, Ricardo Genova-Santos, A. J. Banday, M. Galloway, T. L. Svalheim, Fabio Finelli, L. A. Montier, H. K. Eriksen, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Karen C. Cheung, Cristian Franceschet, Matthieu Tristram, V. Chan, G. Polenta, Clive Dickinson, N. W. Halverson, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Yuji Chinone, Mathieu Remazeilles, Giampaolo Pisano, Jon E. Gudmundsson, J. Peloton, M. Reinecke, Shannon M. Duff, Carole Tucker, Y. Minanmi, Gene C. Hilton, Martin Bucher, P. A. R. Ade, G. Vermeulen, K. Komatsu, Norio Okada, Thibaut Louis, Sophie Henrot-Versille, Edward J. Wollack, Paolo Natoli, Hideo Ogawa, Jörn Wilms, E. Taylor, Andrea Zonca, Makoto Hattori, Radek Stompor, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Yutaro Sekimoto, Marcin Gradziel, H. Thommesen, Zmuidzinas, Jonas, Sekimoto, Y, Ade, P, Adler, A, Allys, E, Arnold, K, Auguste, D, Aumont, J, Aurlien, R, Austermann, J, Baccigalupi, C, Banday, A, Banerji, R, Barreiro, R, Basak, S, Beall, J, Beck, D, Beckman, S, Bermejo, J, de Bernardis, P, Bersanelli, M, Bonis, J, Borrill, J, Boulanger, F, Bounissou, S, Brilenkov, M, Brown, M, Bucher, M, Calabrese, E, Campeti, P, Carones, A, Casas, F, Challinor, A, Chan, V, Cheung, K, Chinone, Y, Cliche, J, Colombo, L, Columbro, F, Cubas, J, Cukierman, A, Curtis, D, D'Alessandro, G, Dachlythra, N, De Petris, M, Dickinson, C, Diego-Palazuelos, P, Dobbs, M, Dotani, T, Duband, L, Duff, S, Duval, J, Ebisawa, K, Elleflot, T, Eriksen, H, Errard, J, Essinger-Hileman, T, Finelli, F, Flauger, R, Franceschet, C, Fuskeland, U, Galloway, M, Ganga, K, Gao, J, Genova-Santos, R, Gerbino, M, Gervasi, M, Ghigna, T, Gjerløw, E, Gradziel, M, Grain, J, Grupp, F, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, J, de Haan, T, Halverson, N, Hargrave, P, Hasebe, T, Hasegawa, M, Hattori, M, Hazumi, M, Henrot-Versillé, S, Herman, D, Herranz, D, Hill, C, Hilton, G, Hirota, Y, Hivon, E, Hlozek, R, Hoshino, Y, de la Hoz, E, Hubmayr, J, Ichiki, K, Iida, T, Imada, H, Ishimura, K, Ishino, H, Jaehnig, G, Kaga, T, Kashima, S, Katayama, N, Kato, A, Kawasaki, T, Keskitalo, R, Kisner, T, Kobayashi, Y, Kogiso, N, Kogut, A, Kohri, K, Komatsu, E, Komatsu, K, Konishi, K, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kreykenbohm, I, Kuo, C, Kushino, A, Lamagna, L, Lanen, J, Lattanzi, M, Lee, A, Leloup, C, Levrier, F, Linder, E, Louis, T, Luzzi, G, Maciaszek, T, Maffei, B, Maino, D, Maki, M, Mandelli, S, Martinez-Gonzalez, E, Masi, S, Matsumura, T, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Minanmi, Y, Mitsuda, K, Montgomery, J, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Mot, B, Murata, Y, Murphy, J, Nagai, M, Nagano, Y, Nagasaki, T, Nagata, R, Nakamura, S, Namikawa, T, Natoli, P, Nerval, S, Nishibori, T, Nishino, H, O'Sullivan, C, Ogawa, H, Oguri, S, Osaki, H, Ohta, I, Okada, N, Pagano, L, Paiella, A, Paoletti, D, Patanchon, G, Peloton, J, Piacentini, F, Pisano, G, Polenta, G, Poletti, D, Prouvé, T, Puglisi, G, Tambaud, D, Raum, C, Realini, S, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Ritacco, A, Roudil, G, Rubino-Martin, J, Russell, M, Sakurai, H, Sakurai, Y, Sandri, M, Sasaki, M, Savini, G, Scott, D, Seibert, J, Sherwin, B, Shinozaki, K, Shiraishi, M, Shirron, P, Signorelli, G, Smecher, G, Stever, S, Stompor, R, Sugai, H, Sugiyama, S, Suzuki, A, Suzuki, J, Svalheim, T, Switzer, E, Takaku, R, Takakura, H, Takakura, S, Takase, Y, Takeda, Y, Tartari, A, Taylor, E, Terao, Y, Thommesen, H, Thompson, K, Thorne, B, Toda, T, Tomasi, M, Tominaga, M, Trappe, N, Tristram, M, Tsuji, M, Tsujimoto, M, Tucker, C, Ullom, J, Vermeulen, G, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vissers, M, Vittorio, N, Wehus, I, Weller, J, Westbrook, B, Wilms, J, Winter, B, Wollack, E, Yamasaki, N, Yoshida, T, Yumoto, J, Zannoni, M, Zonca, A, Astrophysique, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - 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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Aperture, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, cryogenic telescope, law.invention, Cosmic microwave background, Entrance pupil, Telescope, FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Optics, millimeter-wave polarization, space program, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, law, Angular resolution, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Stray light, business.industry, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Lens (optics), Cardinal point, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization over the full sky at large angular scales. The challenges of LiteBIRD are the wide field-of-view (FoV) and broadband capabilities of millimeter-wave polarization measurements, which are derived from the system requirements. The possible paths of stray light increase with a wider FoV and the far sidelobe knowledge of $-56$ dB is a challenging optical requirement. A crossed-Dragone configuration was chosen for the low frequency telescope (LFT : 34--161 GHz), one of LiteBIRD's onboard telescopes. It has a wide field-of-view ($18^\circ \times 9^\circ$) with an aperture of 400 mm in diameter, corresponding to an angular resolution of about 30 arcminutes around 100 GHz. The focal ratio f/3.0 and the crossing angle of the optical axes of 90$^\circ$ are chosen after an extensive study of the stray light. The primary and secondary reflectors have rectangular shapes with serrations to reduce the diffraction pattern from the edges of the mirrors. The reflectors and structure are made of aluminum to proportionally contract from warm down to the operating temperature at $5\,$K. A 1/4 scaled model of the LFT has been developed to validate the wide field-of-view design and to demonstrate the reduced far sidelobes. A polarization modulation unit (PMU), realized with a half-wave plate (HWP) is placed in front of the aperture stop, the entrance pupil of this system. A large focal plane with approximately 1000 AlMn TES detectors and frequency multiplexing SQUID amplifiers is cooled to 100 mK. The lens and sinuous antennas have broadband capability. Performance specifications of the LFT and an outline of the proposed verification plan are presented., Comment: 21 pages, 14 figures

Published
2020

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