Euclid Mission

Euclid Mission
Copyright: ESA/ATG medialab (spacecraft); NASA, ESA, CXC, C. Ma, H. Ebeling and E. Barrett (University of Hawaii/IfA), et al. and STScI (background)

Euclid is a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), adopted in 2012 in the framework of Cosmic Vision 2015-2025, with expected launch in 2022. Euclid is a high-precision cosmology mission exploiting the combination of weak lensing and large scale structure in order to constrain the dark energy equation of state, to test modified gravity models and to address other key questions in modern cosmology.  Euclid will survey 15,000 deg2 with visible and near-infrared imaging to magAB~24-25, and with near-infrared slitless spectroscopy, plus a deeper field of 40 deg2

Euclid will also provide an immense legacy dataset. Italy is member of the Euclid Consortium together with several European countries and the participation of NASA and CSA. The Italian participation in Euclid is mainly supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and MIUR (PRIN). Several scientists of the DIFA – Astrophysics Sector played a key role in the development (2008) and approval (2011) of Euclid, and currently have management, scientific (cosmology, clusters, galaxies, gravitational lensing and AGNs) and data processing responsibilities.

DIFA staff members

Marco Baldi

Associate Professor

Fabrizio Brighenti

Associate Professor

Marcella Brusa

Full Professor

Andrea Cimatti

Full Professor

Luca Ciotti

Full Professor

Giuseppe Cosentino

D cat. - technical, scientific and data processing area

Daniele Dallacasa

Associate Professor

Gabriele Giovannini

Alma Mater Professor

Myriam Gitti

Associate Professor

Annarita Margiotta

Associate Professor

Federico Marulli

Associate Professor

Nicoletta Mauri

Associate Professor

Robert Benton Metcalf

Associate Professor

Michele Ennio Maria Moresco

Associate Professor

Lauro Moscardini

Full Professor

Carlo Nipoti

Associate Professor

Silvia Pellegrini

Associate Professor

Francesca Pozzi

Associate Professor

Emanuel Rossetti

D cat. - technical, scientific and data processing area

Maurizio Spurio

Full Professor

Margherita Talia

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Cristian Vignali

Associate Professor

DIFA post-doc and PhD students

Matteo Billi

Teaching tutor

INFN Members

  • Laura Patrizii

  • Gabriele Sirri

  • Alessandro Tronconi

Funding

  • UniBo
  • ASI
  • PRIN-MIUR