Hi Boud,
Thanks for spreading this info, I have already supported PRISM.
Best wishes
MArek
Cytowanie Boud Roukema boud@astro.uni.torun.pl:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:38:22 +0200 From: Jacques Delabrouille ... To: boud ... Subject: Proposed PRISM space mission
Dear Boud, As you may have heard, we have answered the recent call for science themes for future ESA missions with a concept called PRISM (Polarised Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) -- The name was given before we heard of the NSA's version of PRISM... As this mission might be of interest to you and your colleagues in Torun, I am sending you this information, which I encourage you to send to the Polish community susceptible to be interested in this science, either on the theoretical or the experimental side, and/or involved in the project.
The main idea of the mission is an ultra-sensitive spectro-polarimetric survey of the entire sky from about 30 GHz to about 6 THz.
The science case is as broad as possible to serve a very large scientific community. The main themes for cosmology and fundamental physics are:
- A complete census of the Dark Matter, hot gas, dusty galaxies in
our Hubble volume, and corresponding constraints on cosmology, dark energy, cluster physics, structure formation, star formation, etc.
- The ultimate measurement of CMB polarization, to constrain
primordial GW and inflationary scenarios
- The measurement of the CMB frequency spectrum, to explore energy
injection at z<10^6 by processes such as reionization, decay of DM particles, evaporation of mini black holes, etc.
Details are in http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013arXiv1306.2259P and on our website (http://www.prism-mission.org).
Do not hesitate to ask questions if you have any. Support (by signing-up and encouraging people to sign-up on our web site) would be very useful (there are already a small number of Polish scientists who expressed interest, but I am sure many more still have not received this information).
Best,
Jacques
Jacques Delabrouille CNRS, Laboratoire APC, Université Paris Diderot, Bâtiment Condorcet 10, rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet 75205 Paris cedex 13, FRANCE Telephone: +33 1 57 27 60 40 Fax: +33 1 57 27 60 71
http://www.apc.univ-paris7.fr/~delabrou/
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