PRIMA at the AAS Meeting in National Harbor

PRIMA at the AAS 245 Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland - Jan 2025

Special Session: 216 - Enabling Space-Based Far-Infrared Science in the 2030s with the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA)

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - 10:00-11:30 A.M. ET
Room: National Harbor 2

With this special session we aim to organize community input and engage a broad community of theorists and multiwavelength observers. In addition to giving an overview of the PRIMA mission concept, invited speakers and panelists will address key topics including unique FIR capabilities to follow up on exciting discoveries from current facilities like JWST and ALMA, synergy with facilities coming online like the Roman Space Telescope and Rubin Observatory, and opportunities to prepare for future facilities like Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). This session will also include contributed posters from the community.

Invited Talks

	Paper Number	Presenter (Affiliation)	Title
10:00 – 10:10 A.M. ET	216.01	Jason Glenn (Goddard Space Flight Center)	PRIMA: The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics
10:10 – 10:20 A.M. ET	216.02	Jonas Zmuidzinas (California Institute of Technology)	Recent Technology Advances for Far-IR Instrumentation
10:20 – 10:30 A.M. ET	216.05	Kishalay De (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Time Domain Science in the Far-Infrared
10:30 – 10:40 A.M. ET	216.04	Erini Lambrides (NPP / Goddard Space Flight Center)	Synergies for Far-Infrared and X-ray Science in the Early Universe
10:40 – 10:50 A.M. ET	216.03	Edwin (Ted) Bergin (University of Michigan)	Pathfinding for Far-Infrared Science in the 2030s with Current Facilities
10:50 – 11:00 A.M. ET	216.06	Thushara Pillai (MIT Haystack Observatory)	Far-Infrared Polarimetry in the 2030s

Panel Discussion - 11:00-11:30 A.M. ET

Tiffany Kataria (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Meredith MacGregor (Johns Hopkins University)
Kamber Schwarz (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg)
Gordon Stacey (Cornell University)

Contributed iPoster Session 209 - Space-Based Far-Infrared Science for the 2030s

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - 9:00-10:00 A.M. ET
Room: Prince George's Exhibit Hall CD

Terminal	Paper Number	Presenter (Affiliation)	Title
126	209.02	Lunjun (Simon) Liu (California Institute of Technology)	Characterizing the evolution of z=1 – 2 galaxies with a PRIMA spectroscopic survey
127	209.03	Alexandra Pope (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)	PRIMA: The co-evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes across cosmic time
129	209.05	Laure Ciesla (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) Margaret Meixner (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	PRIMA: PRIMAger, a Hyperspectral and Polarimetric Instrument
130	209.06	Elisabeth Mills (University of Kansas)	PRIMA: Mapping the Milky Way Interstellar Medium in the Far-Infrared
131	209.07	Klaus Pontoppidan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	PRIMA: The astrochemical signatures of planet formation and the origins of planetary atmospheres
133	209.09	Charles Bradford (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	The Far-Infrared Enhanced Survey Spectrometer (FIRESS) for PRIMA
134	209.10	Brandon Hensley (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	PRIMA: The Rise of Dust and Metals
138	209.14	Johannes Staguhn (Johns Hopkins University / NASA GSFC)	PRIMA: 1/f noise and mitigating observing strategies
139	209.16	Jason Glenn (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)	The Science and Concept of the PRIMA Far-Infrared NASA Astrophysics Probe
142	209.19	Tiffany Kataria (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	PRIMA: Guest Observer/Guest Investigator Science
148	209.25	Arielle Moullet (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)	PRIMA: far-IR observations for Solar System Science

Other PRIMA Presentations and Posters

	Session Type / Paper Number (Location)	Presenter (Affiliation)	Title
Monday 9:30 – 10:00 A.M. ET	Exhibitor Theater (Prince George's Pre-Function CD)	Arielle Moullet (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)	Get involved with PRIMA: NASA Probe Explorer's Far-IR Observatory Concept
Monday 11:20 - 11:30 A.M. ET	Oral 130.06 (National Harbor 12)	Lunjun (Simon) Liu (California Institute of Technology)	Characterizing the Evolution of z = 1 – 2 Galaxies with a PRIMA Spectroscopic Survey
Monday 11:40 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. ET	Plenary Lecture 135.01 (Potomac Ballroom AB)	Alexandra Pope (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)	Galaxy Evolution Eras Tour: The Formative Years of Star Formation and Supermassive Black Hole Growth
Tuesday 9:00 -10:00 A.M. ET	iPoster 201.08 (Prince George's Exhibit Hall CD)	Matt Bradford (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	PRIMA's Kinetic Inductance Detectors: Realizing the Promise of the Far-Infrared
Tuesday 10:00 -11:30 A.M. ET	Splinter Session (Annapolis 1-2)	Matt Bradford (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	PRIMA Technologies: Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Tuesday 10:46 - 11:04 A.M. ET	Special Session 224.04 (Chesapeake 4-5)	Klaus Pontoppidan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	JDISCS: Connecting Inner and Outer Disk Chemistry with JWST and ALMA
Tuesday 6:15 - 6:30 P.M. ET	Hyperwall Talk (NASA Booth)	Elisabeth Mills (University of Kansas)	PRobe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) Overview

Visit PRIMA at the IPAC booth in the Exhibit Hall

PRIMA team members will be at the booth to provide information about PRIMA and chat about opportunities. Come over to meet us and get your PRIMA swag.

PRIMA Social Hour

Meet up for a social time with the PRIMA community, 8:30 P.M. Tuesday at Public House, 199 Fleet Street - a short distance from the Convention Center!