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NASA Delivers Hardware for ESA Dark Energy Mission

July 29th, 2019

A major step towards the completion of the scientific payload on ESA's Euclid space mission has been completed, following the delivery of the detectors for the Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument by NASA.

Euclid Dark Energy Telescope Selects Deep Fields

June 12th, 2019

Three extremely dark patches of the sky have been selected for in-depth observations by the European Space Agency's Euclid mission. Researchers will probe these "Euclid Deep Fields" for faint and distant objects in the universe.

Spitzer awards time to observe Euclid Deep Field South

March 15th, 2019

Prof. Claudia Scarlata (University of Minnesota) has been awarded Spitzer time to observe Euclid Deep Field South. Her team will conduct a 687hr survey of the definitive southern continuous viewing zone deep field of the 2020s using IRAC, the primary instrument on Spitzer. This survey will secure legacy data that will allow a broad range of scie...

ENSCI establishes Help Center

January 3rd, 2019

Euclid NASA Science Center (ENSCI) has established the ENSCI Help Center to assist U.S. scientists in preparing to work with Euclid data.

ENSCI will be at AAS meeting in January 2019

January 3rd, 2019

Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) representatives will be at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, WA, on 6-10 January 2019.

Euclid Mission Now Ready for Final Assembly

December 18th, 2018

ESA's Euclid mission has passed its critical design review, marking the successful completion of a major phase in the progress of the project. The review verified that the overall mission architecture and detailed design of all its elements is complete, ensuring that it will be able to perform the unprecedented galaxy survey needed to tackle the...

ESA releases new artist views of Euclid

January 25th, 2018

ESA has released new artist views of Euclid, the space mission to probe the dark Universe. These new images contain details that reflect the progress in the mission implementation.

Keck awards 10 nights for Euclid calibration

December 6th, 2017

Dr. Dan Masters (JPL) is the PI of a successful Keck proposal for a 2-semester, 10 night Key Strategic Mission Support program to complete the Euclid calibration in support of both the NASA PCOS and COS science goals. A primary objective of both Euclid and WFIRST is to provide a 3D map of the distribution of matter across a significant fraction ...

Over Eighty U.S. Scientists and Engineers Have Joined the Euclid Consortium

October 11th, 2017

Euclid is an ESA space mission with NASA participation to probe the nature of the dark Universe, scheduled for launch in 2020. To date, 83 US scientist and engineers have become members of the Euclid Consortium.

Scientists of the Euclid Consortium announce the release of the largest simulated galaxy catalogue ever built

July 31st, 2017

A key ingredient in order to prepare the scientific exploitation of the Euclid dataset is the development of synthetic observations of the real survey: a cosmological simulation that matches the expected volume and complexity of the real data. In a massive coordinated effort, a team of scientists of the Euclid project have worked together over t...

Dan Masters won the STAR prize for the biggest impact by a postdoc in the Euclid consortium

June 16th, 2017

Daniel works on developing techniques to measure distances to the more than a billion galaxies that will be imaged by Euclid, an ESA-led space mission focused on understanding the nature of dark energy. The method he developed uses an advanced machine learning technique to map the true distribution of galaxy colors. These colors can then be rela...

NASA Delivers Detectors for ESA's Euclid Spacecraft

May 9th, 2017

Three detector systems for the Euclid mission, led by ESA (European Space Agency), have been delivered to Europe for the spacecraft's near-infrared instrument. The detector systems are key components of NASA's contribution to this upcoming mission to study some of the biggest questions about the universe, including those related to the propertie...

Euclid Photometric Calibration

April 14th, 2017

To understand all aspects of the photometric calibration of the Euclid mission, the Euclid calibration working group held a three day workshop at ESAC (Madrid) on 20-22 September 2016. The informative talks presented at this workshop are now publicly available.

ENSCI will be at the IPAC Booth at the 229th AAS meeting in January 2017

December 12th, 2016

ENSCI will be at the IPAC Booth at the 229th AAS meeting on January 3-7, 2017, in Grapevine, Texas.

The Euclid/WFIRST Spitzer Legacy Survey Program

October 13th, 2016

The Euclid/WFIRST Spitzer Legacy Survey proposal has been selected for observations in Spitzer GO Cycle 13. The PI is Dr. Peter Capak from IPAC, Caltech, leading an international team of 51 Co-Is. This ambitious program has been awarded 5286 hours of Spitzer Legacy Science Time, the most time awarded in this cycle, and a substantial fraction of ...

ENSCI Releases Estimator for Astrophysical Background at L2

September 29th, 2016

The Euclid NASA Science Center (ENSCI) has released an Estimator for Astrophysical Background at L2. This provides an important tool to Euclid scientists for survey optimization.

BBC Documentary "The Mystery of Dark Energy"

April 7th, 2016

BBC recently released Horizon's new episode, "The Mystery of Dark Energy". Some of the footage from this episode was shot during the Euclid Consortium meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland in June 2015.

How Does a NASA Scientist End Up Working on an ESA Mission?

March 1st, 2016

I work for NASA, and my salary comes from NASA through Caltech. One of my primary jobs is working on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid mission, which will launch on a six-year mission to study dark matter and dark energy in 2020. So, how does a NASA scientist end up playing a leading role in an ESA mission? The seeds of my involvement go back more than 15 years.

Euclid-US Teams

February 18th, 2016

Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) has created webpages for all three NASA Euclid Science Investigation Teams, and gathered the recent Euclid-relevant publications from all three teams into a single archive.

Dark Universe Mission Ready to Take Shape

December 17th, 2015

Euclid, a planned mission to investigate the profound cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, has passed its preliminary design review. This clears the way for construction to begin. Euclid is a European Space Agency mission with important contributions from NASA, including infrared detectors for one instrument and science and data anal...

Community Astrophysics with WFIRST: Guest Observer and Archival Science

November 16th, 2015

Due to the synergy between WFIRST and Euclid, this meeting is of great interest to the Euclid community. This international meeting, "Community Astrophysics with WFIRST: Guest Observer and Archival Science", to be held in Pasadena from 29 Feb. through 2 March 2016, will focus on the GO and GI components of the WFIRST mission.

Welcome to ENSCI

October 21st, 2014

NASA has established the Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) in order to support US-based investigations using Euclid data. ENSCI will participate in the Euclid Consortium’s Science Ground Segment, providing algorithm and software development, participating in data quality assurance, and performing data processing. In addition, ENSCI wi...

Thales Alenia Selected to be Euclid Prime Contractor

July 8th, 2013

The construction of Euclid to explore the dark Universe will be led by Italy's Thales Alenia Space, which will be the prime contractor for the mission. This selection kicks of the full industrial phase of the project, following the announcement last month that Astrium Toulouse will build the payload module -- the telescope and optical bench carr...

Caltech and JPL to Lead U.S. Science Teams for Dark Energy Mission

February 12th, 2013

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including two teams led by astronomers at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission

January 24th, 2013

NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

ESA approves Euclid mission

June 20th, 2012

ESA's Science Program Committee has completed the two stage approval process process of selection and adoption of the Euclid mission.

NASA calls for Euclid Science Investigations

February 14th, 2012

NASA has announced an opportunity to propose for Science Investigations as Members of the Euclid Consortium and Euclid Science Team.

NRC endorses NASA participation in Euclid

February 3rd, 2012

The National Research Council's Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for US Participation in Euclid recommended that NASA should make a hardware contribution to the Euclid mission to enable US participation.
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