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

Philippe André; Carlo Baccigalupi; Anthony Banday; Domingos Barbosa; Belen Barreiro; James Bartlett; Nicola Bartolo; Elia Battistelli; Richard Battye; George Bendo; Alain Benoît; Jean Philippe Bernard; Marco Bersanelli; Matthieu Béthermin; Pawel Bielewicz; Anna Bonaldi; Fran¸Cois Bouchet; Fran¸Cois Boulanger; Jan Brand; Martin Bucher; Carlo Burigana; Zhen Yi Cai; Philippe Camus; Francisco Casas; Viviana Casasola; Guillaume Castex; Anthony Challinor; Jens Chluba; Gayoung Chon; Sergio Colafrancesco; Barbara Comis; Francesco Cuttaia; Giuseppe D’alessandro; Antonio Da Silva; Richard Davis; Miguel de Avillez; Paolo de Bernardis; Marco de Petris; Adriano de Rosa; Gianfranco de Zotti; Jacques Delabrouille; Fran¸Cois Xavier Désert; Clive Dickinson; Jose Maria Diego; Joanna Dunkley; Torsten Enßlin; Josquin Errard; Edith Falgarone; Pedro Ferreira; Katia Ferrière; Fabio Finelli; Andrew Fletcher; Pablo Fosalba; Gary Fuller; Silvia Galli; Ken Ganga; Juan García-Bellido; Adnan Ghribi; Martin Giard; Yannick Giraud-Héraud; Joaquin Gonzalez-Nuevo; Keith Grainge; Alessandro Gruppuso; Alex Hall; Jean Christophe Hamilton; Marijke Haverkorn; Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo; Diego Herranz; Mark Jackson; Andrew Jaffe; Rishi Khatri; Martin Kunz; Luca Lamagna; Massimiliano Lattanzi; Paddy Leahy; Julien Lesgourgues; Michele Liguori; Elisabetta Liuzzo; Marcos Lopez-Caniego; Juan Macias-Perez; Bruno Maffei; Davide Maino; Anna Mangilli; Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez; Carlos J.A.P. Martins; Silvia Masi; Marcella Massardi; Sabino Matarrese; Alessandro Melchiorri; Jean Baptiste Melin; Aniello Mennella; Arturo Mignano; Marc Antoine Miville-Deschênes; Alessandro Monfardini; Anthony Murphy; Pavel Naselsky; Federico Nati; Paolo Natoli; Mattia Negrello; Fabio Noviello; Créidhe O’sullivan; Francesco Paci; Luca Pagano; Rosita Paladino; Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille; Daniela Paoletti; Hiranya Peiris; Francesca Perrotta; Francesco Piacentini; Michel Piat; Lucio Piccirillo; Giampaolo Pisano; Gianluca Polenta; Agnieszka Pollo; Nicolas Ponthieu; Mathieu Remazeilles; Sara Ricciardi; Matthieu Roman; Cyrille Rosset; Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin; Maria Salatino; Alessandro Schillaci; Paul Shellard; Joseph Silk; Alexei Starobinsky; Radek Stompor; Rashid Sunyaev; Andrea Tartari; Luca Terenzi; Luigi Toffolatti; Maurizio Tomasi; Neil Trappe; Matthieu Tristram; Tiziana Trombetti; Marco Tucci; Rien Van de Weijgaert; Bartjan Van Tent; Licia Verde; Patricio Vielva; Ben Wandelt; Robert Watson; Stafford Withington

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/006

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

Philippe André, Carlo Baccigalupi, Anthony Banday, Domingos Barbosa, Belen Barreiro, James Bartlett, Nicola Bartolo, Elia Battistelli, Richard Battye, George Bendo, Alain Benoît, Jean Philippe Bernard, Marco Bersanelli, Matthieu Béthermin, Pawel Bielewicz, Anna Bonaldi, Fran¸Cois Bouchet, Fran¸Cois Boulanger, Jan Brand, Martin BucherCarlo Burigana, Zhen Yi Cai, Philippe Camus, Francisco Casas, Viviana Casasola, Guillaume Castex, Anthony Challinor, Jens Chluba, Gayoung Chon, Sergio Colafrancesco, Barbara Comis, Francesco Cuttaia, Giuseppe D’alessandro, Antonio Da Silva, Richard Davis, Miguel de Avillez, Paolo de Bernardis, Marco de Petris, Adriano de Rosa, Gianfranco de Zotti, Jacques Delabrouille, Fran¸Cois Xavier Désert, Clive Dickinson, Jose Maria Diego, Joanna Dunkley, Torsten Enßlin, Josquin Errard, Edith Falgarone, Pedro Ferreira, Katia Ferrière, Fabio Finelli, Andrew Fletcher, Pablo Fosalba, Gary Fuller, Silvia Galli, Ken Ganga, Juan García-Bellido, Adnan Ghribi, Martin Giard, Yannick Giraud-Héraud, Joaquin Gonzalez-Nuevo, Keith Grainge, Alessandro Gruppuso, Alex Hall, Jean Christophe Hamilton, Marijke Haverkorn, Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo, Diego Herranz, Mark Jackson, Andrew Jaffe, Rishi Khatri, Martin Kunz, Luca Lamagna, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Paddy Leahy, Julien Lesgourgues, Michele Liguori, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Marcos Lopez-Caniego, Juan Macias-Perez, Bruno Maffei, Davide Maino, Anna Mangilli, Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez, Carlos J.A.P. Martins, Silvia Masi, Marcella Massardi, Sabino Matarrese, Alessandro Melchiorri, Jean Baptiste Melin, Aniello Mennella, Arturo Mignano, Marc Antoine Miville-Deschênes, Alessandro Monfardini, Anthony Murphy, Pavel Naselsky, Federico Nati, Paolo Natoli, Mattia Negrello, Fabio Noviello, Créidhe O’sullivan, Francesco Paci, Luca Pagano, Rosita Paladino, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Daniela Paoletti, Hiranya Peiris, Francesca Perrotta, Francesco Piacentini, Michel Piat, Lucio Piccirillo, Giampaolo Pisano, Gianluca Polenta, Agnieszka Pollo, Nicolas Ponthieu, Mathieu Remazeilles, Sara Ricciardi, Matthieu Roman, Cyrille Rosset, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Maria Salatino, Alessandro Schillaci, Paul Shellard, Joseph Silk, Alexei Starobinsky, Radek Stompor, Rashid Sunyaev, Andrea Tartari, Luca Terenzi, Luigi Toffolatti, Maurizio Tomasi, Neil Trappe, Matthieu Tristram, Tiziana Trombetti, Marco Tucci, Rien Van de Weijgaert, Bartjan Van Tent, Licia Verde, Patricio Vielva, Ben Wandelt, Robert Watson, Stafford Withington

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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 10⁶ 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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	006
Journal	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume	2014
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/006
State	Published - Feb 1 2014
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André, P., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A., Barbosa, D., Barreiro, B., Bartlett, J., Bartolo, N., Battistelli, E., Battye, R., Bendo, G., Benoît, A., Bernard, J. P., Bersanelli, M., Béthermin, M., Bielewicz, P., Bonaldi, A., Bouchet, FC., Boulanger, FC., Brand, J., ... Withington, S. (2014). PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): An extended white paper. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(2), Article 006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/006

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AU - Barbosa, Domingos

AU - Barreiro, Belen

AU - Bartlett, James

AU - Bartolo, Nicola

AU - Battistelli, Elia

AU - Battye, Richard

AU - Bendo, George

AU - Benoît, Alain

AU - Bernard, Jean Philippe

AU - Bersanelli, Marco

AU - Béthermin, Matthieu

AU - Bielewicz, Pawel

AU - Bonaldi, Anna

AU - Bouchet, Fran¸Cois

AU - Boulanger, Fran¸Cois

AU - Brand, Jan

AU - Bucher, Martin

AU - Burigana, Carlo

AU - Cai, Zhen Yi

AU - Camus, Philippe

AU - Casas, Francisco

AU - Casasola, Viviana

AU - Castex, Guillaume

AU - Challinor, Anthony

AU - Chluba, Jens

AU - Chon, Gayoung

AU - Colafrancesco, Sergio

AU - Comis, Barbara

AU - Cuttaia, Francesco

AU - D’alessandro, Giuseppe

AU - Silva, Antonio Da

AU - Davis, Richard

AU - Avillez, Miguel de

AU - Bernardis, Paolo de

AU - Petris, Marco de

AU - Rosa, Adriano de

AU - Zotti, Gianfranco de

AU - Delabrouille, Jacques

AU - Désert, Fran¸Cois Xavier

AU - Dickinson, Clive

AU - Diego, Jose Maria

AU - Dunkley, Joanna

AU - Enßlin, Torsten

AU - Errard, Josquin

AU - Falgarone, Edith

AU - Ferreira, Pedro

AU - Ferrière, Katia

AU - Finelli, Fabio

AU - Fletcher, Andrew

AU - Fosalba, Pablo

AU - Fuller, Gary

AU - Galli, Silvia

AU - Ganga, Ken

AU - García-Bellido, Juan

AU - Ghribi, Adnan

AU - Giard, Martin

AU - Giraud-Héraud, Yannick

AU - Gonzalez-Nuevo, Joaquin

AU - Grainge, Keith

AU - Gruppuso, Alessandro

AU - Hall, Alex

AU - Hamilton, Jean Christophe

AU - Haverkorn, Marijke

AU - Hernandez-Monteagudo, Carlos

AU - Herranz, Diego

AU - Jackson, Mark

AU - Jaffe, Andrew

AU - Khatri, Rishi

AU - Kunz, Martin

AU - Lamagna, Luca

AU - Lattanzi, Massimiliano

AU - Leahy, Paddy

AU - Lesgourgues, Julien

AU - Liguori, Michele

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AU - Lopez-Caniego, Marcos

AU - Macias-Perez, Juan

AU - Maffei, Bruno

AU - Maino, Davide

AU - Mangilli, Anna

AU - Martinez-Gonzalez, Enrique

AU - Martins, Carlos J.A.P.

AU - Masi, Silvia

AU - Massardi, Marcella

AU - Matarrese, Sabino

AU - Melchiorri, Alessandro

AU - Melin, Jean Baptiste

AU - Mennella, Aniello

AU - Mignano, Arturo

AU - Miville-Deschênes, Marc Antoine

AU - Monfardini, Alessandro

AU - Murphy, Anthony

AU - Naselsky, Pavel

AU - Nati, Federico

AU - Natoli, Paolo

AU - Negrello, Mattia

AU - Noviello, Fabio

AU - O’sullivan, Créidhe

AU - Paci, Francesco

AU - Pagano, Luca

AU - Paladino, Rosita

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AU - Paoletti, Daniela

AU - Peiris, Hiranya

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AU - Pollo, Agnieszka

AU - Ponthieu, Nicolas

AU - Remazeilles, Mathieu

AU - Ricciardi, Sara

AU - Roman, Matthieu

AU - Rosset, Cyrille

AU - Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto

AU - Salatino, Maria

AU - Schillaci, Alessandro

AU - Shellard, Paul

AU - Silk, Joseph

AU - Starobinsky, Alexei

AU - Stompor, Radek

AU - Sunyaev, Rashid

AU - Tartari, Andrea

AU - Terenzi, Luca

AU - Toffolatti, Luigi

AU - Tomasi, Maurizio

AU - Trappe, Neil

AU - Tristram, Matthieu

AU - Trombetti, Tiziana

AU - Tucci, Marco

AU - Weijgaert, Rien Van de

AU - Tent, Bartjan Van

AU - Verde, Licia

AU - Vielva, Patricio

AU - Wandelt, Ben

AU - Watson, Robert

AU - Withington, Stafford

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N2 - 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 106 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.

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