Orateur
Elisa Russier
Description
PICO is a space mission concept submitted by NASA to the Astro2020 Decadal Review panel as a candidate Inflation Probe (IP) and such a probe was selected for implementation. In the original submission the team showed that with 5 years of observations PICO would be able to place more than 20 sigma constraint on r=0.003 and reject r=0.0005 with 5 sigma confidence. These tight constraints were achieved through calculations based on extrapolations of simplifying assumptions about noise. I will present new quantitative assessment of PICO’s performance based on end-to-end simulations of noise and as-observed inhomogeneous sky coverage in the presence of a range of foreground models and different levels of low-frequency noise.
