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astro-ph.IM2026

MOSAIC at ELT: Design and First Prototyping of Novel Robotic Optical-Relay Positioners

Maxime Rombach, Markus Thurneysen, Lucas Ortolani +27

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is, to date, the most ambitious ground-based telescope under construction. MOSAIC is a multi-objects spectrograph (MOS) that aims to make full u…

astro-ph.IM2026

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). AstroVink: A vision transformer approach to find strong gravitational lens systems

Euclid Collaboration, S. H. Vincken, K. Rojas +302

We present AstroVink, a vision transformer classifier designed for automated identification of strong lens candidates in Euclid imaging. We build upon the DINOv2 encoder, fine tune…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). From simulations to sky: Advancing machine-learning lens detection with real Euclid data

Euclid Collaboration, N. E. P. Lines, T. E. Collett +301

In the era of large-scale surveys like Euclid, machine learning has become an essential tool for identifying rare yet scientifically valuable objects, such as strong gravitational…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 8 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): From spectrograms to spectra: the SIR spectroscopic Processing Function

Euclid Collaboration, Y. Copin, M. Fumana +348

The Euclid space mission aims to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter by mapping the large-scale structure of the Universe. A key component of Euclid's observation…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): From images to multiwavelength catalogues: the Euclid MERge Processing Function

Euclid Collaboration, E. Romelli, M. Kümmel +345

The Euclid satellite is an ESA mission that was launched in July 2023. \Euclid is working in its regular observing mode with the target of observing an area of $14\,000~\text{deg}^…

astro-ph.IM2025

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): VIS processing and data products

Euclid Collaboration, H. J. McCracken, K. Benson +377

This paper describes the VIS Processing Function (VIS PF) of the Euclid ground segment pipeline, which processes and calibrates raw data from the VIS camera. We present the algorit…

astro-ph.IM2024

Data analysis of the NISP instrument for the Euclid mission: from the first validation tests on ground up to the verification phase after launch

Louis Gabarra

The Euclid telescope, launched from Cape Canaveral on July 1st, 2023, is dedicated to studying dark matter and dark energy from its orbit at the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point L2. It i…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 114 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 103 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

Euclid's Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer ready for flight -- review of final performance

E. Medinaceli, L. Valenziano, N. Auricchio +44

ESA's mission Euclid, while undertaking its final integration stage, is fully qualified. Euclid will perform an extragalactic survey () by observing in the visible and near-…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 10 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2023

Pre-launch optical verification of the Euclid NISP instrument and comparison with simulated images

Louis Gabarra

To characterise the NISP (Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer) instrument optical capability before the launch of the \Euclid telescope to orbit, foreseen in 2023, data analy…