Euclid Imaging Consortium Science Book

By Alexandre Refregier, Adam Amara, Thomas D. Kitching, J. Weller, A. Rassat, R. Scaramella. 2010

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The energy density of the Universe is dominated by dark energy and dark matter, two mysterious components which pose some of the most important questions in fundamental science today. Euclid is a high-precision survey mission designed to answer these questions by mapping the geometry of the dark Universe. Euclid's Visible-NIR imaging and spectroscopy of the entire extragalactic sky will further produce extensive legacy science for various fields of astronomy. Over the 2008-2009 period, Euclid has been the object of an ESA Assessment Phase in which the study of the Euclid Imaging instrument was under the responsibility of the Euclid Imaging Consortium (EIC). The EIC Science Book presents the studies done by the EIC science working groups in the context of this study phase. We first give a brief description of the Euclid mission and of the imaging instrument and surveys. We then summarise the primary and legacy science which will be achieved with the Euclid imaging surveys, along with the simulations and data handling scheme which have been developed to optimise the instrument and ensure its science performance.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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3. Ralf Klessen
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6. P. Hopkins
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• Gravitationally lensed quasars and supernovae in future wide-field optical imaging surveys (2010, background): “For instance, the planned space mission Euclid (Refregier et al. 2010) is planning to obtain high-resolution imaging data for the entire southern extragalactic sky, which will be enormously useful for locating many lensed quasars from morphology.”
• Probing the theory of gravity with gravitational lensing of gravitational waves and galaxy surveys (2019, methodology): “By combining all the high redshift probes such as EUCLID Refregier et al. (2010), LSST LSST Science Collaboration et al. (2009), SPHEREx Dore et al. (2018a) and WFIRST Dore et al. (2018b), the detectability of the signal is going to improve significantly.”
• Titans of the early Universe: The Prato statement on the origin of the first supermassive black holes (2018, methodology): “Numerical studies have found that such explosions would be visible to Euclid and WFIRST at the epochs at which they would likely occur (Figure 13; Whalen et al. 2013c).”
• Mining for Dark Matter Substructure: Inferring Subhalo Population Properties from Strong Lenses with Machine Learning (2019, background): “In particular, we use the nominal detector configuration for Euclid, assuming a zero-point magnitude mAB=25.5 in the single optical VIS passband, a 64×64 pixel grid with pixel size 0.1″ arcsec, a Gaussian point-spread function (PSF) with FWHM 0.18 , individual exposures with exposure time 1610 s, an”
• THE COYOTE UNIVERSE EXTENDED: PRECISION EMULATION OF THE MATTER POWER SPECTRUM (2013, background): “Imaging surveys include SDSS, the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS), the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS; de Jong et al. 2013), the recently started Dark Energy Survey (DES), and in the future, Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts (SuMIRe; Sugai et al. 2012), the Large Synoptic Su”
• COrE (Cosmic Origins Explorer) A White Paper (2011, methodology): “As a result of this cosmic inflation, the Universe ended up in a very special state, almost perfectly homogeneous and empty, with a geometry that is almost exactly Euclidean.”
• Primordial Non-Gaussianity and Bispectrum Measurements in the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure (2010, background): “It has been shown, in fact, that proposed and planned redshift surveys, such as those of Euclid [4],”
• Galaxy Alignments: Observations and Impact on Cosmology (2015, methodology): “Here we forecast constraints on cosmology from a generic weak gravitational lensing survey, modelled on the European Space Agency Euclid mission8 (Refregier et al. 2010; Laureijs et al. 2011).”