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- Sugai, H., et al.
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Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Low Temperature Physics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0022-2291 .- 1573-7357. ; 199:3-4, s. 1107-1117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their application on future satellite cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments. LiteBIRD is in the most advanced phase among such future satellites, targeting its launch in Japanese Fiscal Year 2027 (2027FY) with JAXA's H3 rocket. It will accommodate more than 4000 TESs in focal planes of reflective low-frequency and refractive medium-and-high-frequency telescopes in order to detect a signature imprinted on the CMB by the primordial gravitational waves predicted in cosmic inflation. The total wide frequency coverage between 34 and 448 GHz enables us to extract such weak spiral polarization patterns through the precise subtraction of our Galaxy's foreground emission by using spectral differences among CMB and foreground signals. Telescopes are cooled down to 5 K for suppressing thermal noise and contain polarization modulators with transmissive half-wave plates at individual apertures for separating sky polarization signals from artificial polarization and for mitigating from instrumental 1/f noise. Passive cooling by using V-grooves supports active cooling with mechanical coolers as well as adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators. Sky observations from the second Sun-Earth Lagrangian point, L2, are planned for 3 years. An international collaboration between Japan, the USA, Canada, and Europe is sharing various roles. In May 2019, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, selected LiteBIRD as the strategic large mission No. 2.
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- Ade, Peter, et al.
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The Simons Observatory : science goals and forecasts
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. - : IOP Publishing. - 1475-7516. ; :2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scientific goals of the experiment, motivate the design, and forecast its performance. SO will measure the temperature and polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background in six frequency bands centered at: 27, 39, 93, 145, 225 and 280 GHz. The initial con figuration of SO will have three small-aperture 0.5-m telescopes and one large-aperture 6-m telescope, with a total of 60,000 cryogenic bolometers. Our key science goals are to characterize the primordial perturbations, measure the number of relativistic species and the mass of neutrinos, test for deviations from a cosmological constant, improve our understanding of galaxy evolution, and constrain the duration of reionization. The small aperture telescopes will target the largest angular scales observable from Chile, mapping approximate to 10% of the sky to a white noise level of 2 mu K-arcmin in combined 93 and 145 GHz bands, to measure the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, at a target level of sigma(r) = 0.003. The large aperture telescope will map approximate to 40% of the sky at arcminute angular resolution to an expected white noise level of 6 mu K-arcmin in combined 93 and 145 GHz bands, overlapping with the majority of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope sky region and partially with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. With up to an order of magnitude lower polarization noise than maps from the Planck satellite, the high-resolution sky maps will constrain cosmological parameters derived from the damping tail, gravitational lensing of the microwave background, the primordial bispectrum, and the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects, and will aid in delensing the large-angle polarization signal to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio. The survey will also provide a legacy catalog of 16,000 galaxy clusters and more than 20,000 extragalactic sources.
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- Alfes-Neumann, C., et al.
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A classification of harmonic weak Maass forms of half-integral weight
- 2023
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Ingår i: Research in Number Theory. - 2522-0160 .- 2363-9555. ; 9:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We classify Harish-Chandra modules generated by the pullback to the metaplectic group of harmonic weak Maass forms with exponential growth allowed at the cusps. This extends work by Schulze-Pillot and parallels recent work by Bringmann-Kudla, who investigated the case of integral weights. We realize each of our cases via a regularized theta lift of an integral weight harmonic weak Maass form. Harish-Chandra modules in both integral and half-integral weight that occur need not be irreducible. Therefore, our display of the role that the theta lifting takes in this picture, we hope, contributes to an initial understanding of a theta correspondence for extensions of Harish-Chandra modules.
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- Conley, C. H., et al.
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Harmonic Maass-Jacobi forms of degree 1 with higher rank indices
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Number Theory. - 1793-0421. ; 12:7, s. 1871-1897
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We define and investigate real analytic weak Jacobi forms of degree 1 and arbitrary rank. En route we calculate the Casimir operator associated to the maximal central extension of the real Jacobi group, which for rank exceeding 1 is of order 4. In ranks exceeding 1, the notions of H-harmonicity and semi-holomorphicity are the same.
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- Conley, C. H., et al.
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Harmonic Maass-Jacobi forms of degree 1 with higher rank indices
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Number Theory. - : World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt. - 1793-0421 .- 1793-7310. ; 12:7, s. 1871-1897
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We define and investigate real analytic weak Jacobi forms of degree 1 and arbitrary rank. En route we calculate the Casimir operator associated to the maximal central extension of the real Jacobi group, which for rank exceeding 1 is of order 4. In ranks exceeding 1, the notions of H-harmonicity and semi-holomorphicity are the same.
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- Raum, Jeffrey C, et al.
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Islet {beta}-cell-specific MafA transcription requires the 5'-flanking conserved Region 3 control domain.
- 2010
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Ingår i: Molecular and Cellular Biology. - 0270-7306. ; 30:17, s. 4234-4244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- MafA is a key transcriptional activator of islet beta cells and its exclusive expression within beta cells of the developing and adult pancreas is distinct amongst pancreatic regulators. Region 3 (base pairs -8118/-7750 relative to the transcription start site), one of six conserved 5' cis-domains of the MafA promoter, is capable of directing beta-cell-line-selective expression. Transgenic reporters of Region 3 alone (R3), sequences spanning Regions 1-6 (R1-6; base pairs -10428/+230), and R1-6 lacking Region 3 (R1-6(DeltaR3)) were generated. Only the R1-6 transgene was active in MafA(+) insulin(+) cells during development and in adults. R1-6 also mediated glucose-induced MafA expression. Conversely, pancreatic expression was not observed with the R3 or R1-6(DeltaR3) lines, although much of the non-pancreatic expression pattern was shared between the R1-6 and R1-6(DeltaR3) lines. Further support for the importance of Region 3 was shown as the islet regulators Nkx6.1 and Pax6, but not NeuroD1 activated MafA using gel shift, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), transfection assays, and in vivo mouse knockout models. Lastly ChIP demonstrated that Pax6 and Pdx-1 bound also to Regions 1 and 6, potentially functioning in pancreatic and non-pancreatic expression. These data highlight the nature of the cis- and trans-acting factors controlling the beta-3cell-specific expression of MafA.
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