PRIMA Overview and Instruments
We are very excited that the PRIMA community is actively engaged and discussing PRIMA in the their work. Moving forward, we kindly ask you that if you wish to cite PRIMA and its instruments, please use the JATIS publications:
PRIMA Overview
- 2025 PRIMA mission concept Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031628
PRIMAger
- 2025 PRIMA: PRIMAger, a far-infrared hyperspectral and polarimetric instrument Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031625
FIRESS
- 2025 The far-infrared enhanced survey spectrometer for PRIMA: approach and estimated performance Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031627
2025
- 2025 A New Hope for Obscured AGN: The PRIMA-NewAthena Alliance https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031609 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Sieging HELM's deep: PRIMA unveils the far-infrared properties of highly extincted low-mass galaxies https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031614 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Synergy between Roman and PRIMA imaging capabilities for large extragalactic surveys https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031619 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Dust stripping in cluster galaxies: a PRIMA perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02764 arXiv
- 2025 The Far-Infrared Enhanced Survey Spectrometer (FIRESS) for PRIMA: Approach and Estimated Performance https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02518 arXiv
- 2025 Radial variation of the silicate-to-carbon ratio in M31 probed by PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031623 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Feature Intensity Mapping: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission from All Galaxies Across Cosmic Time https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13863 arXiv
- 2025 PRIMA: PRIMAger, a far-infrared hyperspectral and polarimetric instrument https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031625 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Measuring Interstellar Carbon Abundance via 158 μm [C II] Absorption with SOFIA—A Potential Detection and Proof-of-concept for Depletion Studies with Future Far-IR Facilities https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/add40f Astronomical Journal
- 2025 Probing the Transient Far-IR Sky with PRIMA https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02135 arXiv
- 2025 A Census of the Most Obscured Galaxy Nuclei over Cosmic Time to be revealed by PRIMA https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11611 arXiv
- 2025 Understanding the Evolution of Black Hole Accretion and Dust out to z=4 with a Deep Imaging Extragalactic Survey with PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031630 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Black hole accretion, star formation, and chemical evolution with PRobe far-infrared mission for astrophysics/far-IR enhanced survey spectrometer spectroscopy: toward the cosmic noon and beyond https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031637 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 PRIMA survey of the Virgo cluster https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04678 arXiv
- 2025 The PRIMA promise of deciphering interstellar dust evolution with observations of the nearby Universe https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031612 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Need for PRIMA to understand the nature and ISM physical conditions of HST-dark galaxies https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031621 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Characterization of a Far-Infrared Kinetic Inductance Detector Prototype for PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1109/TTHZ.2024.3454436 IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology
- 2025 Far-infrared probing with PRIMA into particle acceleration associated with relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031622 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Measuring metal sulfides in interstellar dust with PRIMA https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02067 arXiv
- 2025 Isotopic composition of cometary water and the origin of Earth's oceans https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031605 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 PRIMA Vista: far-infrared polarimetry to unveil small-scale magnetohydrodynamics in extragalactic observations https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02533 arXiv
- 2025 PRIMAGAL: a PRIMAger Galactic Plane Far-IR polarization survey to quantify the magnetic fields' role in the formation and evolution of large star-forming filaments https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031610 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Detecting water ice and vapor disks originating from icy planetary bodies around white dwarfs with future PRIMA observations https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031607 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Searching for missing interstellar oxygen in the far-infrared https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031602 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 The Complex Magnetic Field of the Extreme Galactic Center: PRIMA Science Potential https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031604 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 The Far-Infrared Enhanced Survey Spectrometer (FIRESS) for PRIMA: Science Drivers https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01800 arXiv
- 2025 Investigating the role of magnetic fields in the formation and evolution of striations in interstellar clouds with PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031617 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Search for the radiative decay of the cosmic neutrino background through spectral measurements of the cosmic infrared background using PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031608 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Rapid far-infrared spectral timing of X-ray binaries with PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031603 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Recovering the Dust Mass Budget with PRIMA https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01671 arXiv
- 2025 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the High-redshift Universe: Prospect of the PRIMA FIRESS low-resolution spectroscopy https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031634 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
- 2025 Characterizing the interplay between Galactic star formation and ionization feedback with PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031636 Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
2024
- 2024 Opto-mechanical design and realization of a far-infrared grating module for future space missions https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3021430 Proc. Vo. 13100, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI
- 2024 Spatial mapping of kilopixel kinetic inductance detector arrays for PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020503 Proc. Vo. 13102, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII
- 2024 Confusion of extragalactic sources in the far-infrared: A baseline assessment of the performance of PRIMAger in intensity and polarization https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450269 Astronomy & Astrophysics
- 2024 Disentangling the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes with PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450529 Astronomy & Astrophysics
- 2024 Parallel Plate Capacitor Aluminum KIDs for Future Far-Infrared Space-Based Observatories https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03039-0 Journal of Low Temperature Physics
- 2024 A 25-micrometer Single-Photon-Sensitive Kinetic Inductance Detector https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.041005 Physical Review X
- 2024 The continuous adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator for the probe far-infrared mission for astrophyiscs (PRIMA) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020300 Proc. Vo. 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
- 2024 Overcoming confusion noise with hyperspectral imaging from PRIMAger https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1539 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 2024 Simulation of the Far-Infrared Polarimetry Approach Envisioned for the PRIMA Mission https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17050 arXiv
- 2024 Highly sensitive far-IR KIDs for PRIMA: optical characterization of a 25-micron array https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020228 Proc. Vo. 13102, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII
- 2024 High-Sensitivity Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays for the PRobe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03041-6 Journal of Low Temperature Physics
- 2024 PRIMA: science cases and requirements for the photometric and polarimetric PRIMAger far-infrared camera https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018024 Proc. Vo. 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
- 2024 Development of an ultra-sensitive 210-micron array of KIDs for far-IR astronomy https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020346 Proc. Vo. 13102, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII
- 2024 Modeling of Cosmic Rays and Near-IR Photons in Aluminum KIDs https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03044-3 Journal of Low Temperature Physics
- 2024 Retrievals of Protoplanetary Disk Parameters Using Thermochemical Models. I. Disk Gas Mass from Hydrogen Deuteride Spectroscopy https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3e6f Astrophysical Journal
2023
- 2023 JWST Reveals Excess Cool Water Near the Snow Line in Compact Disks, Consistent with Pebble Drift https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acf5ec Astrophysical Journal Letters
- 2023 PRIMA Space Telescope Cryocooling System https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2675697 Proceedings SPIE 12687, Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications XIII
- 2023a Monolithic Silicon Microlens Arrays for Far-Infrared Astrophysics https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.510409 Applied Optics
- 2023b Parallel Plate Capacitor Aluminum KIDs for Future Far-Infrared Space-Based Observatories https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03039-0 Journal of Low Temperature Physics
- 2023 Lens Absorber Coupled MKIDs for Far Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv231018161D/abstract
- 2023 Far-Infrared Luminosity Bursts Trace Mass Accretion onto Protostars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad188b Astronomical Journal
- 2023 High-Sensitivity Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays for the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03041-6 Journal of Low Temperature Physics
- 2023 Characterization of a Far-Infrared Kinetic Inductance Detector Prototype for PRIMA https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03586
- 2023 The Astrodust+PAH Model: A Unified Description of the Extinction, Emission, and Polarization from Dust in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acc4c2 Astrophysical Journal
- 2023 Modeling of Cosmic Rays and Near-IR Photons in Aluminum KIDs https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03044-3 Journal of Low Temperature Physics
- 2023 Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). VII. A Tomographic View of Far Infrared and Radio Polarimetric Observations through MHD Simulations of Galaxies https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2e9e Astrophysical Journal
- 2023 PRIMA General Observer Science Book https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv231020572M/abstract
- 2023 Optical and Opto-mechanical Design of Spectrometers for PRIMA https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2676269 Proc. SPIE 12676, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts XI
- 2023 Retrievals of Protoplanetary Disk Parameters Using Thermochemical Models: I. Disk Gas Mass from Hydrogen Deuteride Spectroscopy https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3e6f Astrophysical Journal


