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Title: | The Euclid mission design | Authors: | Racca, Giuseppe D. Laureijs, René Stagnaro, Luca Salvignol, Jean-Christophe Lorenzo Alvarez, José Saavedra Criado, Gonzalo Gaspar Venancio, Luis Short, Alex Strada, Paolo Bönke, Tobias Colombo, Cyril Calvi, Adriano Maiorano, Elena Piersanti, Osvaldo Prezelus, Sylvain Rosato, Pierluigi Pinel, Jacques Rozemeijer, Hans Lesna, Valentina Musi, Paolo Sias, Marco Anselmi, Alberto Cazaubiel, Vincent Vaillon, Ludovic Mellier, Yannick Amiaux, Jérôme Berthé, Michel Sauvage, Marc Azzollini, Ruyman Cropper, Mark Pottinger, Sabrina Jahnke, Knud Ealet, Anne Maciaszek, Thierry PASIAN, Fabio ZACCHEI, Andrea SCARAMELLA, Roberto Hoar, John Kohley, Ralf Vavrek, Roland Rudolph, Andreas Schmidt, Micha |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Volume: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave | Editors: | MacEwen, Howard A.; Fazio, Giovanni G.; Lystrup, Makenzie | Series: | PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE | Number: | 9904 | First Page: | 99040O-1 | Abstract: | Euclid is a space-based optical/near-infrared survey mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate the nature of dark energy, dark matter and gravity by observing the geometry of the Universe and on the formation of structures over cosmological timescales. Euclid will use two probes of the signature of dark matter and energy: Weak gravitational Lensing, which requires the measurement of the shape and photometric redshifts of distant galaxies, and Galaxy Clustering, based on the measurement of the 3-dimensional distribution of galaxies through their spectroscopic redshifts. The mission is scheduled for launch in 2020 and is designed for 6 years of nominal survey operations. The Euclid Spacecraft is composed of a Service Module and a Payload Module. The Service Module comprises all the conventional spacecraft subsystems, the instruments warm electronics units, the sun shield and the solar arrays. In particular the Service Module provides the extremely challenging pointing accuracy required by the scientific objectives. The Payload Module consists of a 1.2 m three-mirror Korsch type telescope and of two instruments, the visible imager and the near-infrared spectro-photometer, both covering a large common field-of-view enabling to survey more than 35% of the entire sky. All sensor data are downlinked using K-band transmission and processed by a dedicated ground segment for science data processing. The Euclid data and catalogues will be made available to the public at the ESA Science Data Centre. | Conference Name: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave | Conference Place: | Edinburgh, UK | Conference Date: | 26 June-1 July, 2016 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/24419 | URL: | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9904/1/The-Euclid-mission-design/10.1117/12.2230762.short | ISSN: | 0277-786X | ISBN: | 9781510601871 | DOI: | 10.1117/12.2230762 | Bibcode ADS: | 2016SPIE.9904E..0OR | Fulltext: | open |
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