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Concept design of the LiteBIRD satellite for CMB B-mode polarization

Siegler, Nicholas, Tong, Edward C., Batalha, Natalie, Fazio, Giovanni G., Lystrup, Makenzie, MacEwen, Howard A., Realini, S., Patanchon, Guillaume, Kataoka, Yuichiro, Zonca, Andrea, Zannoni, Mario, Yumoto, Junji, Yoshida, Tetsuya, Yanagisawa, Masato, Yamasaki, Noriko, Yamamoto, Ryo, Westbrook, Benjamin, Wehus, Ingunn, Watanabe, Naoki, Vittorio, Nicola, Utsunomiya, Shin, Uozumi, Satoru, Tsujimoto, Masahiro, Tsuji, Masatoshi, Tristram, Matthieu, Trappe, Neil, Tomida, Hiroshi, Tomasi, Maurizio, Thorne, Ben, Thompson, Keith L., Terao, Yutaka, Taylor, Ellen, Takakura, Satoru, Takakura, Hayato, Takaku, Ryota, Suzuki, Junichi, Suzuki, Aritoki, Sugiyama, Shinya, Sugai, Hajime, Stompor, Radek, Smecher, Graeme, Signorelli, Giovanni, Shiraishi, Maresuke, Shinozaki, Keisuke, Sherwin, Blake, Savini, Giorgio, Sakurai, Yuki, Sakurai, Haruyuki, Remazeilles, Mathieu, Raum, Christopher, Puglisi, Giuseppe, Poletti, Davide, Polenta, Gianluca, Pisano, Giampaolo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4302-5681, Piacentini, Francesco, Okada, Nozomi, Ohsaki, Hiroyuki, Ogawa, Hiroyuki, Ogawa, Hideo, Ochi, Hiroki, O'Sullivan, Creidhe, Nishino, Haruki, Nishibori, Toshiyuki, Natoli, Paolo, Namikawa, Toshiya, Nakamura, Shogo, Nagata, Ryo, Nagai, Makoto, Murphy, Anthony, Murata, Yasuhiro, Mot, Baptiste, Morgante, Gianluca, Montier, Ludovic, Molinari, Diego, Mitsuda, Kazuhisa, Minami, Yuto, Mennella, Aniello, Matsumura, Tomotakake, Masi, Silvia, Martinez-Gonzalez, Enrique, Maki, Muneyoshi, Maffei, Buruno, Linder, Eric, Lee, Adrian, Lamagna, Luca, Kushino, Akihiro, Kurinsky, Noah, Kuo, Chao Lin, Krachmalnicoff, Nicoletta, Konishi, Kuniaki, Komatsu, Kunimoto, Komatsu, Eiichiro, Kohri, Kazunori, Kogiso, Nozomu, Kobayashi, Yohei, Kisner, Theodore, Kimura, Kimihiro, Kikuchi, Takahiro, Kibayashi, Atsuko, Keskitalo, Rijo, Kawasaki, Takeo, Katayama, Nobu, Kashima, Shingo, Kanai, Hiroaki, Arnold, Kam, Jaehnig, Greg, Ishino, Hirokazu, Imada, Hiroaki, Ichiki, Kiyotomo, Hubmayr, Johannes, Hoang, Duc Thuong, Hivon, Eric, Hirota, Yukimasa, Hill, Charles, Henrot-Versille, Sophie, Hazumi, Masashi, Hattori, Makoto, Hasegawa, Masaya, Hasebe, Takashi, Hargrave, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3109-6629, Halverson, Nils, Gruppuso, Alessandro, Grain, Julien, Ghigna, Tommaso, Gao, Jian-Rong, Ganga, Ken, Fuskeland, Unni, Franceschet, Cristian, Flauger, Raphael, Errand, Josquin, Eriksen, Hans Kristian, Elleflot, Tucker, Ebisawa, Ken, Ducout, Anne, Duband, Lionel, Dotani, Tadayasu, Dobbs, Matthieu, de Petris, Marco, de Bernardis, Paolo, Curtis, David, Cukierman, Ari, Columbro, Fabio, Chinone, Yuji, Challinor, Anthony, Calabrese, Erminia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0837-0068, Bucher, Martin, Brown, Michael, Boulanger, Francois, Borill, Julian, Bersanelli, Marco, Beckman, Shawn, Basak, Soumen, Banerji, Ranajoy, Banday, Anthony, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Austermann, Jason, Aumont, Jonathan, Mangilli, Anna, Ade, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Winter, B., Ota, Izumi, Noviello, Fabio and Sekimoto, Yutaro 2018. Concept design of the LiteBIRD satellite for CMB B-mode polarization. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, USA, 10-15 June 2018. Published in: Lystrup, Makenzie, MacEwen, Howard A. and Fazio, Giovanni G. eds. Proceedings, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 106981Y (2018). Proceedings of SPIE , vol.10698 Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, p. 68. 10.1117/12.2313432

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Abstract

LiteBIRD is a candidate for JAXA’s strategic large mission to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization over the full sky at large angular scales. It is planned to be launched in the 2020s with an H3 launch vehicle for three years of observations at a Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L2). The concept design has been studied by researchers from Japan, U.S., Canada and Europe during the ISAS Phase-A1. Large scale measurements of the CMB B-mode polarization are known as the best probe to detect primordial gravitational waves. The goal of LiteBIRD is to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio (r) with precision of r < 0:001. A 3-year full sky survey will be carried out with a low frequency (34 - 161 GHz) telescope (LFT) and a high frequency (89 - 448 GHz) telescope (HFT), which achieve a sensitivity of 2.5 μK-arcmin with an angular resolution 30 arcminutes around 100 GHz. The concept design of LiteBIRD system, payload module (PLM), cryo-structure, LFT and verification plan is described in this paper.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: SPIE
ISBN: 9781510619500
ISSN: 1996-756X
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 13:42
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/120568

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