2025-05-30 –, Main Conference Room
This talk provides a summary of the conference and describes the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) which is a proposed mission to NASA’s Astrophysics Probe Explorer (APEX) call. PRIMA answers fundamental questions about our cosmic origins by investigating the role of water in planet assembly, the co-evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes, and the changing properties of dust and metal building blocks over cosmic time. As NASA’s first astrophysics probe and only far-infrared (far-IR) observatory for the next generation, PRIMA provides a scientific leap with broad continuous spectral coverage in the far-IR (24–261 μm), unprecedented sensitivity, polarimetry, and 3–5 orders of magnitude improvement in spectral mapping speed compared to previous far-IR missions. JPL and GSFC, NASA’s two leading centers for astrophysics, partner to develop PRIMA with its cold telescope and two far-IR instruments, enabled by innovative detectors. The majority of PRIMA’s time (>75%) is general observer time and all of data is available for archival research by the community.
