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Title: PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): an extended white paper

Abstract

PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) was proposed to ESA in May 2013 as a large-class mission for investigating within the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision program a set of important scientific questions that require high resolution, high sensitivity, full-sky observations of the sky emission at wavelengths ranging from millimeter-wave to the far-infrared. PRISM's main objective is to explore the distant universe, probing cosmic history from very early times until now as well as the structures, distribution of matter, and velocity flows throughout our Hubble volume. PRISM will survey the full sky in a large number of frequency bands in both intensity and polarization and will measure the absolute spectrum of sky emission more than three orders of magnitude better than COBE FIRAS. The data obtained will allow us to precisely measure the absolute sky brightness and polarization of all the components of the sky emission in the observed frequency range, separating the primordial and extragalactic components cleanly from the galactic and zodiacal light emissions. The aim of this Extended White Paper is to provide a more detailed overview of the highlights of the new science that will be made possible by PRISM, which include: (1) the ultimatemore » galaxy cluster survey using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, detecting approximately 10{sup 6} clusters extending to large redshift, including a characterization of the gas temperature of the brightest ones (through the relativistic corrections to the classic SZ template) as well as a peculiar velocity survey using the kinetic SZ effect that comprises our entire Hubble volume; (2) a detailed characterization of the properties and evolution of dusty galaxies, where the most of the star formation in the universe took place, the faintest population of which constitute the diffuse CIB (Cosmic Infrared Background); (3) a characterization of the B modes from primordial gravity waves generated during inflation and from gravitational lensing, as well as the ultimate search for primordial non-Gaussianity using CMB polarization, which is less contaminated by foregrounds on small scales than the temperature anisotropies; (4) a search for distortions from a perfect blackbody spectrum, which include some nearly certain signals and others that are more speculative but more informative; and (5) a study of the role of the magnetic field in star formation and its interaction with other components of the interstellar medium of our Galaxy. These are but a few of the highlights presented here along with a description of the proposed instrument.« less

Authors:
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  1. Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (France)
  2. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, 34136, Trieste (Italy)
  3. Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP, F-31028 Toulouse cedex 4 (France)
  4. Grupo de Radio Astronomia Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Instituto de Telecomunicações, Campus Universitario de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro (Portugal)
  5. Instituto de Fìsica de Cantabria (CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria) Avda. de los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander (Spain)
  6. APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/lrfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris, Cité, 10, rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13 (France)
  7. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia ''G. Galilei", Università degli studi di Padova, via Marzolo 8, I-35131, Padova (Italy)
  8. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma (Italy)
  9. Jordell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL (United Kingdom)
  10. U.K. ALMA Regional Centre Node, Jordell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL (United Kingdom)
  11. Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL (United Kingdom)
  12. CNRS, IRAP, 9 Av. colonel Roche, BP 44346, F-31028 Toulouse cedex 4 (France)
  13. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria, 16, Milano (Italy)
  14. European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching (Germany)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22370599
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2014; Journal Issue: 02; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; EMISSION; FREQUENCY RANGE; GALAXIES; GALAXY CLUSTERS; GRAVITATIONAL LENSES; GRAVITY WAVES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POLARIZATION; RED SHIFT; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SENSITIVITY; SKY; SPECTRA; SPECTROSCOPY; STARS; UNIVERSE; VELOCITY; ZODIACAL LIGHT

Citation Formats

André, Philippe, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bielewicz, Pawel, Banday, Anthony, Barbosa, Domingos, Barreiro, Belen, Bartlett, James, Bartolo, Nicola, Battistelli, Elia, Battye, Richard, Bonaldi, Anna, Bendo, George, Benoȋt, Alain, Bernard, Jean-Philippe, Bersanelli, Marco, Béthermin, Matthieu, and others, and. PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): an extended white paper. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/006.
André, Philippe, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bielewicz, Pawel, Banday, Anthony, Barbosa, Domingos, Barreiro, Belen, Bartlett, James, Bartolo, Nicola, Battistelli, Elia, Battye, Richard, Bonaldi, Anna, Bendo, George, Benoȋt, Alain, Bernard, Jean-Philippe, Bersanelli, Marco, Béthermin, Matthieu, & others, and. PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): an extended white paper. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/006
André, Philippe, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bielewicz, Pawel, Banday, Anthony, Barbosa, Domingos, Barreiro, Belen, Bartlett, James, Bartolo, Nicola, Battistelli, Elia, Battye, Richard, Bonaldi, Anna, Bendo, George, Benoȋt, Alain, Bernard, Jean-Philippe, Bersanelli, Marco, Béthermin, Matthieu, and others, and. 2014. "PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): an extended white paper". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/006.
@article{osti_22370599,
title = {PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): an extended white paper},
author = {André, Philippe and Baccigalupi, Carlo and Bielewicz, Pawel and Banday, Anthony and Barbosa, Domingos and Barreiro, Belen and Bartlett, James and Bartolo, Nicola and Battistelli, Elia and Battye, Richard and Bonaldi, Anna and Bendo, George and Benoȋt, Alain and Bernard, Jean-Philippe and Bersanelli, Marco and Béthermin, Matthieu and others, and},
abstractNote = {PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) was proposed to ESA in May 2013 as a large-class mission for investigating within the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision program a set of important scientific questions that require high resolution, high sensitivity, full-sky observations of the sky emission at wavelengths ranging from millimeter-wave to the far-infrared. PRISM's main objective is to explore the distant universe, probing cosmic history from very early times until now as well as the structures, distribution of matter, and velocity flows throughout our Hubble volume. PRISM will survey the full sky in a large number of frequency bands in both intensity and polarization and will measure the absolute spectrum of sky emission more than three orders of magnitude better than COBE FIRAS. The data obtained will allow us to precisely measure the absolute sky brightness and polarization of all the components of the sky emission in the observed frequency range, separating the primordial and extragalactic components cleanly from the galactic and zodiacal light emissions. The aim of this Extended White Paper is to provide a more detailed overview of the highlights of the new science that will be made possible by PRISM, which include: (1) the ultimate galaxy cluster survey using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, detecting approximately 10{sup 6} clusters extending to large redshift, including a characterization of the gas temperature of the brightest ones (through the relativistic corrections to the classic SZ template) as well as a peculiar velocity survey using the kinetic SZ effect that comprises our entire Hubble volume; (2) a detailed characterization of the properties and evolution of dusty galaxies, where the most of the star formation in the universe took place, the faintest population of which constitute the diffuse CIB (Cosmic Infrared Background); (3) a characterization of the B modes from primordial gravity waves generated during inflation and from gravitational lensing, as well as the ultimate search for primordial non-Gaussianity using CMB polarization, which is less contaminated by foregrounds on small scales than the temperature anisotropies; (4) a search for distortions from a perfect blackbody spectrum, which include some nearly certain signals and others that are more speculative but more informative; and (5) a study of the role of the magnetic field in star formation and its interaction with other components of the interstellar medium of our Galaxy. These are but a few of the highlights presented here along with a description of the proposed instrument.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/006},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22370599}, journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
issn = {1475-7516},
number = 02,
volume = 2014,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}