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PIXIE

(Primordial Inflation Explorer)
(satellite-concept to to survey CMB polarization)

PIXIE (for Primordial Inflation Explorer) is a 2011 proposal for a NASA Explorers Program mission intended to survey CMB polarization, using a nulling polarimeter. Of particular interest are B-mode polarization modes that are expected to be the imprint of primordial gravitational waves caused by inflation. It covers a substantial frequency-range, from microwave to far infrared (30 GHz to 6 THz), also allowing it to carry out intensity mapping of redshifted C+, N+, and CO lines.


(NASA,spacecraft,CMB,plan)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011JCAP...07..025K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019BAAS...51g.113K/abstract
https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/pixie/
https://physics.richmond.edu/rsb-conference/presentation-pdfs/RSB%20-%20Kogut%20PIXIE.pdf
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
50μm6THz25meVbeginPIXIE
10mm30GHz124μeVendPIXIE

Referenced by page:
primordial gravitational waves

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