Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Inflation

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We forecast the scientific capabilities to improve our understanding of cosmic inflation of CORE, a proposed CMB space satellite submitted in response to the ESA fifth call for a medium-size mission opportunity.

• The CORE satellite will map the CMB anisotropies in temperature and polarization in 19 frequency channels spanning the range 60-600 GHz.
• CORE will have an aggregate noise sensitivity of $1.7 \mu$K$\cdot \,$arcmin and an angular resolution of 5' at 200 GHz.
• We explore the impact of telescope size and noise sensitivity on the inflation science return by making forecasts for several instrumental configurations.