Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics2025-12-01v2Earth and Planetary AstrophysicsAstrophysics of GalaxiesHigh Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaSolar and Stellar Astrophysics
The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) mission concept is a proposed mission to NASA's Astrophysics Probe Explorer (APEX) call. The concept features a cryogenically cooled 1.8 m diameter telescope, and is designed to carry two science instruments covering the 24 to 264 μm wavelength range: an imaging polarimeter (PRIMAger) and a spectrometer (FIRESS). The majority of PRIMA's time (75%) will be open to observations proposed by the community (General Observer science / GO), and all of data will be publicly available for archival research (Guest Investigator science / GI). Following up on the successful community engagement created by the first volume of the GO PRIMA Science Book (arXiv:2310.20572), Volume 2 gathers 120 new and updated contributed science cases which could be performed within the context of the PRIMA GO/GI program. This volume reflects the strong development of the community interest, awareness and involvement in PRIMA, and further develops how PRIMA's unprecedented capabilities can be leveraged for an impactful and innovative GO/GI program covering most areas of astrophysics and over 90% of the scientific questions and discovery areas in the Astro2020 decadal survey.
@article{arxiv.2511.10927,
title = {PRIMA General Observer Science Book Volume 2},
author = {A. Moullet and D. Burgarella and T. Kataria and H. Beuther and C. Battersby and M. Cheng and T. Essinger-Hileman and H. Inami and E. Mills and T. Nagao and S. Unwin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.10927},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
A. Moullet, D. Burgarella, T. Kataria, H. Beuther, C. Battersby, M. Cheng, T. Essinger-Hileman, H. Inami, E. Mills, T. Nagao, S. Unwin are the editors of the GO Science Book. 664 pages Replacement fixes issues in the rendering of 15 figures