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Interplanetary Dust as a Foreground for the LiteBIRD CMB Satellite Mission

Ganga, Ken; Remazeilles, Mathieu; Maris, Michele +1 more

As ever-more sensitive experiments are made in the quest for primordial CMB B Modes, the number of potentially significant astrophysical contaminants becomes larger as well. Thermal emission from interplanetary dust, for example, has been detected by the Planck satellite. While the polarization fraction of this Zodiacal, or interplanetary dust emi…