1. PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): An Extended White Paper
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PRISM Collaboration, André, Philippe, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Banday, Anthony, Barbosa, Domingos, Barreiro, Belen, Bartlett, James, Bartolo, Nicola, Battistelli, Elia, Battye, Richard, Bendo, George, Benoît, Alain, Bernard, Jean-Philippe, Bersanelli, Marco, Béthermin, Matthieu, Bielewicz, Pawel, Bonaldi, Anna, Bouchet, François, Boulanger, François, Brand, Jan, Bucher, Martin, Burigana, Carlo, Cai, Zhen-Yi, Camus, Philippe, Casas, Francisco, Casasola, Viviana, Castex, Guillaume, Challinor, Anthony, Chluba, Jens, Chon, Gayoung, Colafrancesco, Sergio, Comis, Barbara, Cuttaia, Francesco, D'Alessandro, Giuseppe, Da Silva, Antonio, Davis, Richard, de Avillez, Miguel, de Bernardis, Paolo, de Petris, Marco, de Rosa, Adriano, de Zotti, Gianfranco, Delabrouille, Jacques, Désert, François-Xavier, Dickinson, Clive, Diego, Jose Maria, Dunkley, Joanna, Enßlin, Torsten, Errard, Josquin, Falgarone, Edith, Ferreira, Pedro, Ferrière, Katia, Finelli, Fabio, Fletcher, Andrew, Fosalba, Pablo, Fuller, Gary, Galli, Silvia, Ganga, Ken, García-Bellido, Juan, Ghribi, Adnan, Giard, Martin, Giraud-Héraud, Yannick, Gonzalez-Nuevo, Joaquin, Grainge, Keith, Gruppuso, Alessandro, Hall, Alex, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Haverkorn, Marijke, Hernandez-Monte\-agudo, Carlos, Herranz, Diego, Jackson, Mark, Jaffe, Andrew, Khatri, Rishi, Kunz, Martin, Lamagna, Luca, Lattanzi, Massimiliano, Leahy, Paddy, Lesgourgues, Julien, Liguori, Michele, Liuzzo, Elisabetta, Lopez-Caniego, Marcos, Macias-Perez, Juan, Maffei, Bruno, Maino, Davide, Mangilli, Anna, Martinez-Gonzalez, Enrique, Martins, Carlos, Masi, Silvia, Massardi, Marcella, Matarrese, Sabino, Melchiorri, Alessandro, Melin, Jean-Baptiste, Mennella, Aniello, Mignano, Arturo, Miville-Deschênes, Marc-Antoine, Monfardini, Alessandro, Murphy, Anthony, Naselsky, Pavel, Nati, Federico, Natoli, Paolo, Negrello, Mattia, Noviello, Fabio, O'Sullivan, Créidhe, Paci, Francesco, Pagano, Luca, Paladino, Rosita, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Paoletti, Daniela, Peiris, Hiranya, Perrotta, Francesca, Piacentini, Francesco, Piat, Michel, Piccirillo, Lucio, Pisano, Giampaolo, Polenta, Gianluca, Pollo, Agnieszka, Ponthieu, Nicolas, Remazeilles, Mathieu, Ricciardi, Sara, Roman, Matthieu, Rosset, Cyrille, Rubino-Martin, Jose-Alberto, Salatino, Maria, Schillaci, Alessandro, Shellard, Paul, Silk, Joseph, Starobinsky, Alexei, Stompor, Radek, Sunyaev, Rashid, Tartari, Andrea, Terenzi, Luca, Toffolatti, Luigi, Tomasi, Maurizio, Trappe, Neil, Tristram, Matthieu, Trombetti, Tiziana, Tucci, Marco, Van de Weijgaert, Rien, Van Tent, Bartjan, Verde, Licia, Vielva, Patricio, Wandelt, Ben, Watson, Robert, and Withington, Stafford
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Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - 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, Comment: Figure 8 replaced by the correct version, affiliations of authors added, and minor changes to match the published JCAP version
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