Robustness of cosmic birefringence measurement against Galactic foreground emission and instrumental systematics

P Diego-Palazuelos… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to search for
parity-violating processes like that predicted by a Chern-Simons coupling to a light …

Frequency dependence of the thermal dust E/B ratio and EB correlation: Insights from the spin-moment expansion

L Vacher, J Aumont, F Boulanger, L Montier… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The change of physical conditions across the turbulent and magnetized interstellar medium
induces a 3D spatial variation of the properties of Galactic polarized emission. The observed …

The Simons Observatory: Combining cross-spectral foreground cleaning with multitracer -mode delensing for improved constraints on inflation

E Hertig, K Wolz, T Namikawa, AB Lizancos, S Azzoni… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The Simons Observatory (SO), due to start full science operations in early 2025, aims to set
tight constraints on inflationary physics by inferring the tensor-to-scalar ratio r from …

Tensor-to-scalar ratio forecasts for extended LiteBIRD frequency configurations

U Fuskeland, J Aumont, R Aurlien… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
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 …

Impact of Galactic dust non-Gaussianity on searches for B-modes from inflation

I Abril-Cabezas, C Hervías-Caimapo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A key challenge in the search for primordial B-modes is the presence of
polarized Galactic foregrounds, especially thermal dust emission. Power-spectrum-based …

Generative Models of Multichannel Data from a Single Example—Application to Dust Emission

B Régaldo-Saint Blancard, E Allys… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The quest for primordial B-modes in the cosmic microwave background has emphasized the
need for refined models of the Galactic dust foreground. Here we aim at building a realistic …

A hybrid map-Cℓ component separation method for primordial CMB B-mode searches

S Azzoni, D Alonso, MH Abitbol, J Errard… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Mitigating the impact of the CIB on galaxy cluster SZ detection with spectrally constrained matched filters

Í Zubeldia, J Chluba, R Battye - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Galaxy clusters detected through the thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich (tSZ) effect are a powerful
cosmological probe from which constraints on cosmological parameters such as Ωm and σ8 …

The Simons Observatory: Pipeline comparison and validation for large-scale B-modes

K Wolz, S Azzoni, C Hervías-Caimapo, J Errard… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The upcoming Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescopes aim at achieving a
constraint on the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio r at the level of σ (r= 0)≲ 0.003, observing …

Optimization of foreground moment deprojection for semi-blind CMB polarization reconstruction

A Carones, M Remazeilles - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, aimed at measuring
primordial CMB polarization B-modes, require exquisite control of instrumental systematics …