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Euclid: An automated system to match Rubin transient alerts to Euclid observations
C. Duffy, I. M. Hook, C. M. Gutierrez +150
The Vera C. Rubin observatory is expected to produce 10 million transient alerts per night in ugrizy filters, whilst Euclid is a visible to near-infrared space telescope engaged in…
Euclid. Properties and performance of the NISP signal estimator
Euclid Collaboration, F. Cogato, B. Kubik +292
The Euclid spacecraft, located at the second Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system, hosts the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument. NISP is equipped with…
Euclid Structural-Thermal-Optical Performance
Euclid Collaboration, A. Anselmi, R. Laureijs +290
The Euclid system performance is defined in terms of image quality metrics tuned to the weak gravitational lensing (WL) cosmological probe. WL induces stringent requirements on the…
Euclid preparation. Overview of Euclid infrared detector performance from ground tests
Euclid Collaboration, B. Kubik, R. Barbier +341
The paper describes the objectives, design and findings of the pre-launch ground characterisation campaigns of the Euclid infrared detectors. The pixel properties, including baseli…
Euclid VI. NISP-P optical ghosts
Euclid Collaboration, K. Paterson, M. Schirmer +309
The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) onboard Euclid includes several optical elements in its path, which introduce artefacts into the data from non-nominal light pa…
Performance of the image persistence model for Euclid infrared detectors
B. Kubik, R. Barbier, G. Smadja +99
Large-format infrared detectors are at the heart of major ground and space-based astronomical instruments, and the HgCdTe HxRG is the most widely used. The Near Infrared Spectromet…
Euclid preparation: The NISP spectroscopy channel, on ground performance and calibration
Euclid Collaboration, W. Gillard, T. Maciaszek +356
ESA's Euclid cosmology mission relies on the very sensitive and accurately calibrated spectroscopy channel of the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP). With three opera…
Euclid: Detecting Solar System objects in Euclid images and classifying them using Kohonen self-organising maps
A. A. Nucita, L. Conversi, A. Verdier +141
The ESA Euclid mission will survey more than 14,000 deg of the sky in visible and near-infrared wavelengths, mapping the extra-galactic sky to constrain our cosmological model…
Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Programme overview and pipeline for compact- and diffuse-emission photometry
J. -C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, M. Bolzonella +260
The Euclid ERO showcase Euclid's capabilities in advance of its main mission, targeting 17 astronomical objects, from galaxy clusters, nearby galaxies, globular clusters, to star-f…
Euclid. III. The NISP Instrument
Euclid Collaboration, K. Jahnke, W. Gillard +434
The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) on board the Euclid satellite provides multiband photometry and R>=450 slitless grism spectroscopy in the 950-2020nm wavelength…
Euclid. IV. The NISP Calibration Unit
Euclid Collaboration, F. Hormuth, K. Jahnke +332
The near-infrared calibration unit (NI-CU) on board Euclid's Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) is the first astronomical calibration lamp based on light-emitting dio…
Euclid. II. The VIS Instrument
Euclid Collaboration, M. S. Cropper, A. Al-Bahlawan +432
This paper presents the specification, design, and development of the Visible Camera (VIS) on the ESA Euclid mission. VIS is a large optical-band imager with a field of view of 0.5…
Euclid preparation. XXIX. Water ice in spacecraft part I: The physics of ice formation and contamination
Euclid Collaboration, M. Schirmer, K. Thürmer +218
Molecular contamination is a well-known problem in space flight. Water is the most common contaminant and alters numerous properties of a cryogenic optical system. Too much ice mea…
The PAU Survey & Euclid: Improving broad-band photometric redshifts with multi-task learning
L. Cabayol, M. Eriksen, J. Carretero +123
Current and future imaging surveys require photometric redshifts (photo-zs) to be estimated for millions of galaxies. Improving the photo-z quality is a major challenge but is need…
Euclid preparation: XVI. Exploring the ultra low-surface brightness Universe with Euclid/VIS
A. S. Borlaff, P. Gómez-Alvarez, B. Altieri +180
While Euclid is an ESA mission specifically designed to investigate the nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, the planned unprecedented combination of survey area ( d…
Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years
Giovanna Tinetti, Paul Eccleston, Carole Haswell +313
Ariel, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, was adopted as the fourth medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme to be launched in 2029. Durin…
Gaia Data Release 2. Short-timescale variability processing and analysis
M. Roelens, L. Eyer, N. Mowlavi +13
The Gaia DR2 sample of short-timescale variable candidates results from the investigation of the first 22 months of Gaia photometry for a subsample of sources at the Gaia faint end…
Gaia Data Release 2. Calibration and mitigation of electronic offset effects in the data
N. C. Hambly, M. Cropper, S. Boudreault +30
The European Space Agency Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013. This ambitious mission has strict requirements on residual systematic errors resulting…
Gaia Data Release 2: Properties and validation of the radial velocities
D. Katz, P. Sartoretti, M. Cropper +51
For Gaia DR2 (GDR2), 280 million spectra, collected by the RVS instrument on-board Gaia, were processed and median radial velocities were derived for 9.8 million sources brighter t…
Gaia Data Release 2: Photometric content and validation
D. W. Evans, M. Riello, F. De Angeli +9
Aims. We describe the photometric content of the second data release of the Gaia project (Gaia DR2) and its validation along with the quality of the data. Methods. The validation w…
The Euclid mission design
Giuseppe D Racca, Rene Laureijs, Luca Stagnaro +39
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 g…
On-orbit performance of the Gaia CCDs at L2
C. Crowley, R. Kohley, N. C. Hambly +19
The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013 with a payload containing 106 large-format scientific CCDs. The primary goal of the mi…
Radiation effects on the Gaia CCDs after 30 months at L2
Cian Crowley, Asier Abreu, Ralf Kohley +2
Since the launch of ESA's Gaia satellite in December 2013, the 106 large-format scientific CCDs onboard have been operating at L2. Due to a combination of the high-precision measur…
How well can Charge Transfer Inefficiency be corrected? A parameter sensitivity study for iterative correction
Holger Israel, Richard Massey, Thibaut Prod'homme +9
Radiation damage to space-based Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) detectors creates defects which result in an increasing Charge Transfer Inefficiency (CTI) that causes spurious image tr…