illumin the宇宙起源与演化的物理学：面向2035年英国太空前沿白皮书
天体物理仪器与方法
2026-01-26 v1 宇宙学与河外天体物理
星系天体物理
摘要
理解宇宙的起源与演化仍是现代宇宙学中最根本的挑战之一。本篇白皮书探讨了该领域的三个关键科学优先事项：解开宇宙膨胀的物理学、调查宇宙加速膨胀的机制，以及精确测量中微子质量之和。实现这些目标需要开展一项专门的调查，以 unprecedented detail 详细绘制高红移范围内的大尺度结构。我们描述了如何通过称为SIRMOS的任务概念来实现这一目标，该概念提供高吞吐量、高度多路复用的光谱能力，能够在广阔天空区域获取超过1000万星系的准确红移。该调查将利用现有最深的宽面光度目录进行目标选择，光谱提供1.25-2.5~μm波段的中分辨率覆盖，允许在1<z<4范围内实现最小偏差的精确红移测量。我们阐述了这所带来的科学机遇。近年来，仪器技术取得了显著进展，包括数字微镜装置、复杂天线镜、大型探测器阵列以及数据处理管道。虽然这些技术已在地面应用中得到验证，但这一调查是将这些已验证的能力应用于太空以解决宇宙学基础问题的独特机遇。参与此类任务将同时提供引人注目的科学案例，帮助协调英国空间局和STFC的战略，展示英国在端到端空间任务中的不断成长的能力，并通过高价值工业参与提升国家空间经济。
引用
@article{arxiv.2601.16761,
title = {Illuminating the Physics of Cosmic Origin and Evolution: A UK Space Frontiers 2035 White Paper},
author = {Florian Beutler and Eva-Maria Mueller and Seshadri Nadathur and Yun Wang and David Alonso and Tessa Baker and Sownak Bose and Rebecca Canning and Shaun Cole and Fergus Cullen and Willem Elbers and Pedro Ferreira and Carlos Frenk and Oscar Gonzalez and Or Graur and Boryana Hadzhiyska and Alex Hall and Catherine Heymans and Sergey Koposov and Kazuya Koyama and Ofer Lahav and Baojiu Li and Avery Meiksin and Johannes Noller and John Peacock and Alkistis Pourtsidou and Giorgio Savini and Andy Taylor and Rita Tojeiro and David Wands and Massimo Robberto and Gregory Wirth and Mark Dickinson and Thomas Greene and Jeffrey Kruk and Will Percival and Andreas Faisst and Lynne Hillenbrand and Jeyhan Kartaltepe and Nikhil Padmanabhan and Lado Samushia and Lee Armus and Andrew Benson and Micol Bolzonella and Samuel Brieden and Jarle Brinchmann and Robert Content and Emanuele Daddi and Kyle Finner and Andrew Hearin and Cullan Howlett and Jon Lawrence and Gregory Mosby and Zoran Ninkov and Ken Osato and Casey Papovich and Jack Piotrowski and Lucia Pozzetti and Alvise Raccanelli and Jason Rhodes and Shun Saito and Hee-Jong Seo and Zachary Slepian and Steve Smee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.16761},
year = {2026}
}
备注
White paper submitted to the UK Space Agency's initiative "UK Space Frontiers 2035" https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-space-frontiers-2035-astro-planetary-and-helio