CMB Probe Mission Study Wiki

• Periodic Updates
• Executive Committee Private Area
• Baseline Configuration

• Response to RFI - Dec. 23, 2019

• PICO APC White paper - July 10, 4 pm CT

• Final Submitted PICO Report
• link to website (z.umn.edu/picomission)
• Form to add yourself as Author or Endorser (z.umn.edu/picoendorse)

• Version for Endorsement, 20181114
• Version submitted for Internal Review
• Reviewer Comments and Outstanding action items for the PICO report

Science Traceability Matrix

• The meeting web site
• May 2018 Workshop Postings

• Logbook

• Spectrometer Options - Coordinator: Al Kogut (alan.j.kogut@nasa.gov). The WG will define the science deliverables by a stand-alone Probe-scale spectrometer, and by a smaller spectrometer that will complement an imager.

• Foregrounds and Data Challenge - Coordinator: Shaul Hanany (hanany@ucdavis.edu). The WG will setup sky simulations and will study the uncertainties on parameters quantifying the science deliverables as a function of the level and complexity of foregrounds and systematic effects.

• Constraints on Fundamental Physics - Coordinator: Raphael Flauger (flauger@physics.ucsd.edu). The WG will study the Probe's constraints on fundamental physics parameters including r, N_eff, neutrino mass, and n_s.

• Imager Options - Coordinator: Shaul Hanany (hanany@umn.edu). The WG will set specifications for the imager including optical system, frequency bands, and focal plane architecture.

• Systematic Effects - Coordinator: Brendan Crill (Brendan.P.Crill@jpl.nasa.gov). The WG will identify the systematic effects that are likely to affect the data from the Probe, will quantify the levels they need to be controlled for the Probe to achieve its science goals, and will identify ways to achieve these levels.

• Extragalactic Science - Coordinator: Nick Battaglia (nbatta@astro.princeton.edu). The WG will study the Probe's contributions to extragalactic science, in particular those contributions coming from measurements of the tSZ, kSZ, CIB, and optical depth to reionization.

• Galactic Science - Coordinators: David Chuss (david.chuss@villanova.edu) and Laura Fissel (lfissel@nrao.edu). The WG will identify and quantify the galactic science deliverables of the Probe. It is the arena to collect and discuss the input of those interested in the polarization properties of Galactic sources of emission.

• SH Tenerife 2018 Presentation
• SH APS 2018 Presentation
• American Astronomical Society Meeting talk, January 2018
• American Astronomical Society Meeting Science Poster, January 2018
• American Astronomical Society Optics+Focal Plan poster, January 2018

• Start/end dates: May 3, 2017 / Nov. 2, 2018
• Report due: December 31, 2018
• Report length: up to 50 pages
• Quad Chart Reports due: Aug.1, 2017; Nov.1, 2017; Feb.1, 2018; May 1, 2018; Aug.1, 2018; Nov.1, 2018;

Steering: Bennett, Dodelson, Page

Executive: Bock, Borrill, Crill, Devlin, Flauger, Hanany (PI), Jones, Knox, Kogut, Lawrence (ex-officio), McMahon, Pryke, Trangsrud (ex-officio)

2017 CMB Probe Mission Study Org Chart

• NASA TRL Definitions
• The CATE process
• Which Probe is Managed Where
• NASA Probe Selections 2017
• CMB Probe 2016 Proposal Page
• 2010 Study White Paper
• Link to the previous Inflation Probe study Prior to the 2010 Decadal Panel
• EPIC-IM Report

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