Euclid
The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. <i>Euclid<i/> is a medium-class mission in the Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) that will provide high-resolution optical imaging, as well as near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy, over about 14 000 deg<sup>2<sup/> of extragalactic sky. In addition to accurate weak lensing and clustering measurements that probe structure formation over half of the age of the Universe, its primary probes for cosmology, these exquisite data will enable a wide range of science. This paper provides a high-level overview of the mission, summarising the survey characteristics, the various data-processing steps, and data products. We also highlight the main science objectives and expected performance.
Authors
- Emilio Bellini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9435-308X)
- Ana Achúcarro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2325-9678)
- Rémi Adam
- J. Adamek
- Abdurro'uf
- M. Aguena
- J. A. Acevedo Barroso
- G. E. Addison
- N. Aghanim
- Yannick Mellier
Institutions
- Leiden University (NL)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (IT)
- University of Trieste (IT)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- Université Côte d'Azur (FR)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Trieste Astronomical Observatory (IT)
- Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (FR)
- Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie (FR)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (FR)
- Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (FR)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste (IT)
- Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- RUNG
- Published
- 2025-04-30
- Primary Topic
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00