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Mission Design of LiteBIRD

Journal of Low Temperature Physics volume 176, pages 733–740 (2014)Cite this article

Abstract

LiteBIRD is a next-generation satellite mission to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. On large angular scales the B-mode polarization of the CMB carries the imprint of primordial gravitational waves, and its precise measurement would provide a powerful probe of the epoch of inflation. The goal of LiteBIRD is to achieve a measurement of the characterizing tensor to scalar ratio \(r\) to an uncertainty of \(\delta r=0.001\). In order to achieve this goal we will employ a kilo-pixel superconducting detector array on a cryogenically cooled sub-Kelvin focal plane with an optical system at a temperature of 4 K. We are currently considering two detector array options; transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers and microwave kinetic inductance detectors. In this paper we give an overview of LiteBIRD and describe a TES-based polarimeter designed to achieve the target sensitivity of 2 \(\upmu \)K arcmin over the frequency range 50–320 GHz.

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This work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan under KAKENHI Grant Numbers 21111002, 21111003, 24111715, 24740182.

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  1. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    T. Matsumura, Y. Chinone, M. Hasegawa, K. Hattori, M. Hazumi, K. Kimura, N. Kimura, H. Morii, R. Nagata, S. Oguri, N. Sato, T. Suzuki, O. Tajima, T. Tomaru & M. Yoshida

  2. The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Y. Akiba, Y. Inoue, H. Ishitsuka, A. Shimizu & H. Watanabe

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA,  94720, USA

    J. Borrill

  4. McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    M. Dobbs

  5. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

    H. Fuke, I. Kawano, H. Matsuhara, K. Mitsuda, T. Nishibori, A. Noda, S. Sakai, Y. Sato, K. Shinozaki, H. Sugita, Y. Takei, T. Wada, N. Yamasaki, T. Yoshida & K. Yotsumoto

  6. Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA,  94720, USA

    A. Ghribi, W. Holzapfel, A. Lee, P. Richards & A. Suzuki

  7. Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    M. Hattori, K. Ishidoshiro & T. Morishima

  8. Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama, Japan

    H. Ishino, A. Kibayashi & Y. Kibe

  9. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

    K. Karatsu, T. Noguchi, Y. Sekimoto & Y. Uzawa

  10. Kavli Institute for The Physics and Mathematics of The Universe (IPMU), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

    N. Katayama & H. Nishino

  11. Terahertz-wave Research Group, RIKEN, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    K. Koga, S. Mima & C. Otani

  12. Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild Str. 1, 85741 , Garching, Germany

    E. Komatsu

  13. Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    K. Mizukami, S. Murayama, S. Nakamura & K. Natsume

  14. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    M. Nagai & S. Takada

  15. Saitama University, Saitama, Japan

    M. Naruse

  16. Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

    M. Kozu & H. Ogawa

  17. Kinki University, Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan

    I. Ohta

  18. University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan

    S. Takakura

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Matsumura, T., Akiba, Y., Borrill, J. et al. Mission Design of LiteBIRD. J Low Temp Phys 176, 733–740 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-013-0996-1

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Keywords

  • Cosmic microwave background radiation
  • B-mode polarization
  • Inflation
  • Transition edge sensor bolometer for space application