NASA Euclid Team --- PI: Jason Rhodes

Constraining Dark Energy and Gravity with Euclid 

Unlocking the mystery of dark energy and the accelerated cosmological expansion represents a formidable challenge which Euclid is specifically designed to meet. Our team is working within the Euclid Consortium to help develop and implement Euclid’s planned cosmological surveys. Leveraging our unique expertise in key probes of dark energy (weak lensing, baryon acoustic oscillations, and redshift space distortions), we are working to ensure that Euclid delivers the best possible constraints on dark energy and any necessary modifications to General Relativity. We will also use Euclid data to answer broader astrophysical questions, including the origins of primordial inflation, the nature of neutrinos, and the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters.  

We are developing new algorithms, tools, simulations, and techniques to carefully exploit Euclid’s spectroscopic and photometric data. Our team, which has significant space mission experience, brings together some of the world’s top theoretical and observational experts in cosmology and aspects of Euclid’s legacy science. Examples of these innovations our team is leading include novel techniques to quantify the small observed galaxy shape perturbations caused by weak lensing,  methods of large-scale  reconstruction (the removal of cosmic flows from galaxy clustering measurements to give a sharper view of primordial fluctuations), and the development of photometric redshift calculation and calibration techniques.

Team Members:

Graeme Addison, Johns Hopkins University
Steven Allen, Stanford University
Micaela Bagley, University of Texas at Austin
Eric Baxter, University of Hawaii
Rachel Bean, Cornell University
Jayashree Behera, Kansa State University
Charles Bennett, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Benson, Carnegie Observatories
Gary Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
Mark Brodwin, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Joyce Byun, University of Arizona
Victoria Calafut, Cornell University
Peter Capak, Oculus/Facebook 
Nima Chartab, University of Califronia, Irvine
Judith Cohen, California Institute of Technology
Asantha Cooray, U California at Irvine
Behnam Darvish, California Institute of Technology /IPAC
Iary Davidzon, California Institute of Technology /IPAC
Olivier Dore, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kathleen D Eckert, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Eisenhardt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Daniel Eisenstein, Harvard University
Xiaohui Fan, University of Arizona
Jonathan Gardner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Marco Gatti, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Anthony Gonzalez, University of Florida
Axel Guinot, Carnegie Mellon University
Christopher Hirata, Ohio State University
Shirley Ho, Carnegie Mellon University
Mason Huberty, University of Minnesota
Eric Huff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Bhuvnesh Jain, University of Pennsylvania
Steven Kahn, Stanford University
Alina Kiessling, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Alex Kim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sujeong Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Michael Levi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yu-Heng Lin, California Institute of Technology /IPAC
Eric Linder, UC Berkeley
Robert Lupton, Princeton University
Rachel Mandelbaum, Carnegie Mellon University
Phil Marshall, SLAC
Daniel Masters, California Institute of Technology /IPAC
Kevin McCarthy (Caltech/IPAC/JPL)
Vihang Mehta, Caltech/IPAC
Brice Menard, Johns Hopkins University
Alex Merson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology /IPAC
Leonidas Moustakas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Grey Murphree, Univ. of Hawaii
Peter Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University
Saul Perlmutter, University of California, Berkeley
Gabor Racz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jason Rhodes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lado Samushia, Kansas State University
David Sanders, University of Hawaii
Claudia Scarlata, University of Minnesota
David Schlegel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Diana Scognamiglio, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
David Spergel, Princeton University
Adam Stanford, University of California, Davis
Daniel Stern, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Michael Strauss, Princeton University
Nao Suzuki, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Istvan Szapudi, University of Hawaii
Harry Teplitz, California Institute of Technology /IPAC
Romain Teyssier, Princeton University
Ariane Trudeau, University of Florida
Satya Teja Anuraag Upadhyayula, University of Missouri
Isabella Valdes, Univ. of Hawaii
Georgios Valogiannis, Univ. of Chicago
Georgios Vernardos, City University of New York
Giovanna Verza, Flatiron Institute
Maria Vincenzi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Andre Vitorelli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gregory Walth, California Institute of Technology /IPAC
Yun Wang, California Institute of Technology /IPAC
John Weaver, University of Massachusetts
Risa Wechsler, Stanford University
Martin White, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Aaron Yung, Space Telescope Science Institute