Prime: Probing the very early universe

Wei Zheng; Holland Ford; Jeffrey Kruk; Zlatan Tsvetanov; Alexander Szalay; George Hartig; Harvey Stockman; Marc Postman; Mark Voit; Peter Shu; Matthew Greenhouse; Hans Walter Rix; Rainer Lenzen; Stephen Kent; Chris Stoughton; Alain Omont; Yannick Mellier

doi:10.1117/12.461927

Prime: Probing the very early universe

Wei Zheng^*, Holland Ford, Jeffrey Kruk, Zlatan Tsvetanov, Alexander Szalay, George Hartig, Harvey Stockman, Marc Postman, Mark Voit, Peter Shu, Matthew Greenhouse, Hans Walter Rix, Rainer Lenzen, Stephen Kent, Chris Stoughton, Alain Omont, Yannick Mellier

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PRIME (The Primordial Explorer) is a proposed Explorer-class mission. Aimed at the "first light" in the Universe, it will carry out a deep sky survey from space in four near-infrared bands between ∼1-3.5 μm. It surveys a quarter of the sky to AB magnitude of ∼24, which is ∼600 times deeper than 2MASS and ∼ five million times deeper than COBE at long wavelengths. Deeper surveys in selected sky regions are also planned. PRIME will reach an epoch during which the first quasars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies were formed in the early universe, map the large-scale structure of the dark matter, discover Type-Ia supernovae to be used in measuring the acceleration of the expanding universe, and detect thousands of brown dwarfs and even Jupiter-size planets in the vicinity of the solar system. Most of these objects are so rare that they may be identified only in large and deep surveys. PRIME will serve as the precursor for the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), supplying rare targets for its spectroscopy and deep imaging. It is more than capable of providing targets for the largest ground-based telescopes (10-30m). Combining PRIME with other surveys (SDSS, GALEX) will yield the largest astronomical database ever built.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1132-1136
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	4850
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461927
Publication status	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes
Event	IR Space Telescopes and Instruments - waikoloa, HI, United States Duration: 24 Aug 2002 → 28 Aug 2002

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Galaxy
Quasar
Survey

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Zheng, W., Ford, H., Kruk, J., Tsvetanov, Z., Szalay, A., Hartig, G., Stockman, H., Postman, M., Voit, M., Shu, P., Greenhouse, M., Rix, H. W., Lenzen, R., Kent, S., Stoughton, C., Omont, A., & Mellier, Y. (2002). Prime: Probing the very early universe. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 4850(2), 1132-1136. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461927

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