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PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): An Extended White Paper

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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 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

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PRISM Collaboration, 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, François Bouchet, François 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, François-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-Monte\-agudo, 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 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. 2013-10-06. PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): An Extended White Paper. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/006

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