The Euclid Space Mission

The main objective of the ESA Euclid mission is studying the origin of the Universe expansion; it will perform a high-precision mapping of the extra-galactic sky in the visible and near-infrared bands by means of a 1.2m telescope which will send the radiation to two instruments (a camera working in the visible and a spectro-photometer in the near-infrared); the data obtained will be used to measure the large-scale structure of the Universe, and specifically shape and redshift of galaxies and the distribution of galaxy clusters as a function of redshift; the area covered by the survey will be at least 15000 square degrees of the extra-galactic sky reaching a redshift of about 2 (corresponding roughly to 10 billion light-years); the scientific results of the Euclid mission will cover very important themes of cosmology, such as the nature of dark energy and dark matter and the initial conditions which led to the formation of cosmic structures.
Euclid is a medium-sized (or M-class) mission of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme, and its launch is scheduled in 2020. The mission is developed as a collaboration between ESA and the Euclid Consortium (EC), currently comprising 13 countries.
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (INAF-OATS) is involved in the Euclid Consortium Science Working Groups (Galaxy Clustering, Clusters of Galaxies, Weak Lensing, Cosmological Theory, Primeval Universe, Galaxy and AGN evolution, Cosmological Simulations, CMB-cross-correlations), in the Euclid Consortium Science Ground Segment (ECSGS) with the following duty:
  • management, the ECSGS manager is assigned by a INAF-OATs research
  • ystem engineering
  • software development (INAF-OATS leads the Italian Science Data Center)


and in the preparation of algorithms for the production of the scientific data products and validation of algorithms for galaxy clustering.
The INAF-OATs researchers involved in the Euclid project are:
Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA), Andrea Biviano, Stefano Borgani, Stefano Cristiani, Gabriella De Lucia, Fabio Fontanot, Marco Frailis , Samuele Galeotta, Marisa Girardi, Anna Gregorio (UniTS), Oriana Mansutti, Michele Maris, Pierluigi Monaco, Emiliano Munari, Mario Nonino, Fabio Pasian, Erik Romelli, Stefano Sartor, Barbara Sartoris, Giuliano Taffoni, Daniele Tavagnacco, Matteo Viel, Claudio Vuerli, Andrea Zacchei.

 

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