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2020

Simulation of the cosmic ray effects for the LiteBIRD satellite observing the CMB B-mode polarization

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
  • Mayu Tominaga
  • ,
  • Masahiro Tsujimoto
  • ,
  • Samantha Lynn Stever
  • ,
  • Tommaso Ghigna
  • ,
  • HIrokazu Ishino
  • ,
  • Ken Ebisawa

Volume
11453
Number
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
DOI
10.1117/12.2576127
Publisher
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING

The LiteBIRD satellite is planned to be launched by JAXA in the late 2020s. Its main purpose is to observe the large-scale B-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anticipated from the Inflation theory. LiteBIRD will observe the sky for three years at the second Lagrangian point (L2) of the Sun-Earth system. Planck was the predecessor for observing the CMB at L2, and the onboard High Frequency Instrument (HFI) suffered contamination by glitches caused by the cosmic-ray (CR) hits. We consider the CR hits can also be a serious source of the systematic uncertainty for LiteBIRD. Thus, we have started a comprehensive end-To-end simulation study to assess impact of the CR hits for the LiteBIRD detectors. Here, we describe procedures to make maps and power spectra from the simulated time-ordered data, and present initial results. Our initial estimate is that ClBB by CR is ∼ 2 ×10-6 μK2CMB in a one-year observation with 12 detectors assuming that the noise is 1 aW/ √ Hz for the differential mode of two detectors constituting a polarization pair.

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  • DOI : 10.1117/12.2576127
  • ISSN : 0277-786X
  • eISSN : 1996-756X
  • ISBN : 9781510636934
  • SCOPUS ID : 85100049735
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000850905600041

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