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1. Euclid: Early Release Observations of diffuse stellar structures and globular clusters as probes of the mass assembly of galaxies in the Dorado group

Author: Urbano, M., Duc, P. -A., Saifollahi, T., Sola, E., Lançon, A., Voggel, K., Annibali, F., Baes, M., Bouy, H., Cantiello, Michele, Carollo, D., Cuillandre, J. -C., Dimauro, P., Erwin, P., Ferguson, A. M. N., Habas, R., Hilker, M., Hunt, L. K., Kluge, M., Larsen, S. S., Liu, Q., Marchal, O., Marleau, F. R., Massari, D., Müller, O., Peletier, R. F., Poulain, M., Rejkuba, M., Schirmer, M., Stone, C., Zöller, R., Altieri, B., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baccigalupi, C., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Basset, A., Battaglia, P., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Castignani, G., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Degaudenzi, H., De Lucia, G., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Faustini, F., Ferriol, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., George, K., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoar, J., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Jhabvala, M., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kubik, B., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Mignant, D. Le, Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marcin, S., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Melchior, M., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moscardini, L., Nakajima, R., Neissner, C., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Stanco, L., Steinwagner, J., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Wang, Y., Weller, J., Williams, O. R., Zucca, E., Bolzonella, M., Burigana, C., Mora, A., and Scottez, V.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Deep surveys reveal tidal debris and associated compact stellar systems. Euclid's unique combination of capabilities (spatial resolution, depth, and wide sky coverage) will make it a groundbreaking tool for galactic archaeology in the local Universe, bringing low surface brightness (LSB) science into the era of large-scale astronomical surveys. Euclid's Early Release Observations (ERO) demonstrate this potential with a field of view that includes several galaxies in the Dorado group. In this paper, we aim to derive from this image a mass assembly scenario for its main galaxies: NGC 1549, NGC 1553, and NGC 1546. We detect internal and external diffuse structures, and identify candidate globular clusters (GCs). By analysing the colours and distributions of the diffuse structures and candidate GCs, we can place constraints on the galaxies' mass assembly and merger histories. The results show that feature morphology, surface brightness, colours, and GC density profiles are consistent with galaxies that have undergone different merger scenarios. We classify NGC 1549 as a pure elliptical galaxy that has undergone a major merger. NGC 1553 appears to have recently transitioned from a late-type galaxy to early type, after a series of radial minor to intermediate mergers. NGC 1546 is a rare specimen of galaxy with an undisturbed disk and a prominent diffuse stellar halo, which we infer has been fed by minor mergers and then disturbed by the tidal effect from NGC 1553. Finally, we identify limitations specific to the observing conditions of this ERO, in particular stray light in the visible and persistence in the near-infrared bands. Once these issues are addressed and the extended emission from LSB objects is preserved by the data-processing pipeline, the Euclid Wide Survey will allow studies of the local Universe to be extended to statistical ensembles over a large part of the extragalactic sky., Comment: 25 pages, 20 figures
Published: 2024

2. Euclid preparation: TBD. The impact of line-of-sight projections on the covariance between galaxy cluster multi-wavelength observable properties -- insights from hydrodynamic simulations

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Ragagnin, A., Saro, A., Andreon, S., Biviano, A., Dolag, K., Ettori, S., Giocoli, C., Brun, A. M. C. Le, Mamon, G. A., Maughan, B. J., Meneghetti, M., Moscardini, L., Pacaud, F., Pratt, G. W., Sereno, M., Borgani, S., Calura, F., Castignani, G., De Petris, M., Eckert, D., Lesci, G. F., Macias-Perez, J., Maturi, M., Amara, A., Auricchio, N., Baccigalupi, C., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., De Lucia, G., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., George, K., Gillis, B., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Jahnke, K., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kubik, B., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Munari, E., Neissner, C., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Pettorino, V., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sakr, Z., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Sefusatti, E., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Steinwagner, J., Tallada-Crespí, P., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bolzonella, M., Boucaud, A., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Calabrese, M., Di Ferdinando, D., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Farinelli, R., Gracia-Carpio, J., Mauri, N., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Anselmi, S., Ballardini, M., Bergamini, P., Blanchard, A., Blot, L., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Calabro, A., Canas-Herrera, G., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castro, T., Chambers, K. C., Contarini, S., Cooray, A. R., Costanzi, M., De Caro, B., de la Torre, S., Desprez, G., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Escoffier, S., Ferrari, A. G., Ferreira, P. G., Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Fornari, F., Gabarra, L., Ganga, K., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Hall, A., Hildebrandt, H., Hjorth, J., Muñoz, A. Jimenez, Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Karagiannis, D., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Libet, G., Loureiro, A., Maggio, G., Magliocchetti, M., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Monaco, P., Moretti, C., Morgante, G., Walton, Nicholas A., Patrizii, L., Pezzotta, A., Pöntinen, M., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Risso, I., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Schneider, A., Schultheis, M., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Tao, C., Testera, G., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., and Verza, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Cluster cosmology can benefit from combining multi-wavelength studies, which can benefit from characterising the correlation coefficients between different mass-observable relations. In this work, we aim to provide information on the scatter, the skewness, and the covariance of various mass-observable relations in galaxy clusters in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. This information will help future analyses to better tackle accretion histories and projection effects and model mass observable relations for cosmology studies.We identify galaxy clusters in Magneticum Box2b simulations with mass $M_{\rm 200c}>10^{14} {\rm M}_\odot$ at redshift $z=0.24$ and $z=0.90$. Our analysis includes \Euclid-derived properties such as richness, stellar mass, lensing mass, and concentration. Additionally, we investigate complementary multi-wavelength data, including X-ray luminosity, integrated Compton-$y$ parameter, gas mass, and temperature. The impact of projection effects on mass-observable residuals and correlations is then examined. At intermediate redshift ($z=0.24$), projection effects impact lensing concentration, richness, and gas mass the most in terms of scatter and skewness of log-residuals of scaling relations. The contribution of projection effects can be significant enough to boost a spurious hot- vs. cold-baryons correlation and consequently hide underlying correlations due to halo accretion histories. At high redshift ($z=0.9$), the richness has a much lower scatter (of log-residuals), and the quantity that is most impacted by projection effects is the lensing mass. Lensing concentration reconstruction, in particular, is affected by deviations of the reduced-shear profile shape from the one derived by an NFW profile rather than interlopers in the line of sight., Comment: 26 pages, 22 figures, submitted to A&A, replied to referee comments
Published: 2024

3. Euclid Preparation. Cosmic Dawn Survey: Data release 1 multiwavelength catalogues for Euclid Deep Field North and Euclid Deep Field Fornax

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Zalesky, L., McPartland, C. J. R., Weaver, J. R., Toft, S., Sanders, D. B., Mobasher, B., Suzuki, N., Szapudi, I., Valdes, I., Murphree, G., Chartab, N., Allen, N., Taamoli, S., Barrow, S. W. J., Ortiz, O. Chávez, Finkelstein, S. L., Gwyn, S., Sawicki, M., McCracken, H. J., Stern, D., Dannerbauer, H., Altieri, B., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baccigalupi, C., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Castignani, G., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., De Lucia, G., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fotopoulou, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Joachimi, B., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kubik, B., Kuijken, K., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Mainetti, G., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Neissner, C., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sakr, Z., Sapone, D., Scaramella, R., Schirmer, M., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Sefusatti, E., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Steinwagner, J., Tallada-Crespí, P., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bolzonella, M., Boucaud, A., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Di Ferdinando, D., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Farinelli, R., Gracia-Carpio, J., Mauri, N., Nucita, A. A., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Anselmi, S., Ballardini, M., Bethermin, M., Blanchard, A., Blot, L., Borgani, S., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Calabro, A., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castro, T., Chambers, K. C., Chary, R., Contarini, S., Contini, T., Cooray, A. R., De Caro, B., Desprez, G., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Escoffier, S., Ferrari, A. G., Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Fornari, F., Gabarra, L., Ganga, K., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Hall, A., Hartley, W. G., Hildebrandt, H., Hjorth, J., Huertas-Company, M., Ilbert, O., Muñoz, A. Jimenez, Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Karagiannis, D., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Libet, G., Loureiro, A., Macias-Perez, J., Maggio, G., Magliocchetti, M., Mancini, C., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Monaco, P., Moretti, C., Morgante, G., Walton, Nicholas A., Odier, J., Patrizii, L., Pezzotta, A., Pöntinen, M., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Reimberg, P., Risso, I., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Scarlata, C., Schneider, A., Sereno, M., Silvestri, A., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Stanford, S. A., Tao, C., Testera, G., Teyssier, R., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., Verza, G., and Zinchenko, I. A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The Cosmic Dawn Survey (DAWN survey) provides multiwavelength (UV/optical to mid-IR) data across the combined 59 deg$^{2}$ of the Euclid Deep and Auxiliary fields (EDFs and EAFs). Here, the first public data release (DR1) from the DAWN survey is presented. DR1 catalogues are made available for a subset of the full DAWN survey that consists of two Euclid Deep fields: Euclid Deep Field North (EDF-N) and Euclid Deep Field Fornax (EDF-F). The DAWN survey DR1 catalogues do not include $Euclid$ data as they are not yet public for these fields. Nonetheless, each field has been covered by the ongoing Hawaii Twenty Square Degree Survey (H20), which includes imaging from CFHT MegaCam in the new $u$ filter and from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) in the $griz$ filters. Each field is further covered by $Spitzer$/IRAC 3.6-4.5$\mu$m imaging spanning 10 deg$^{2}$ and reaching $\sim$25 mag AB (5$\sigma$). All present H20 imaging and all publicly available imaging from the aforementioned facilities are combined with the deep $Spitzer$/IRAC data to create source catalogues spanning a total area of 16.87 deg$^{2}$ in EDF-N and 2.85 deg$^{2}$ in EDF-F for this first release. Photometry is measured using The Farmer, a well-validated model-based photometry code. Photometric redshifts and stellar masses are computed using two independent codes for modeling spectral energy distributions: EAZY and LePhare. Photometric redshifts show good agreement with spectroscopic redshifts ($\sigma_{\rm NMAD} \sim 0.5, \eta < 8\%$ at $i < 25$). Number counts, photometric redshifts, and stellar masses are further validated in comparison to the COSMOS2020 catalogue. The DAWN survey DR1 catalogues are designed to be of immediate use in these two EDFs and will be continuously updated. Future data releases will provide catalogues of all EDFs and EAFs and include $Euclid$ data.
Published: 2024

4. Euclid preparation. The Cosmic Dawn Survey (DAWN) of the Euclid Deep and Auxiliary Fields

Author: Euclid Collaboration, McPartland, C. J. R., Zalesky, L., Weaver, J. R., Toft, S., Sanders, D. B., Mobasher, B., Suzuki, N., Szapudi, I., Valdes, I., Murphree, G., Chartab, N., Allen, N., Taamoli, S., Eisenhardt, P. R. M., Arnouts, S., Atek, H., Brinchmann, J., Castellano, M., Chary, R., Ortiz, O. Chávez, Cuby, J. -G., Finkelstein, S. L., Goto, T., Gwyn, S., Harikane, Y., Inoue, A. K., McCracken, H. J., Mohr, J. J., Oesch, P. A., Ouchi, M., Oguri, M., Rhodes, J., Rottgering, H. J. A., Sawicki, M., Scaramella, R., Scarlata, C., Silverman, J. D., Stern, D., Teplitz, H. I., Shuntov, M., Altieri, B., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Aussel, H., Baccigalupi, C., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castander, F. J., Castignani, G., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., De Lucia, G., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Fabricius, M., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fotopoulou, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., George, K., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kubik, B., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Mainetti, G., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Melchior, M., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Neissner, C., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sakr, Z., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Schirmer, M., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Steinwagner, J., Surace, C., Tallada-Crespi, P., Tavagnacco, D., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Bolzonella, M., Boucaud, A., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Di Ferdinando, D., Farinelli, R., Gracia-Carpio, J., Mauri, N., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Anselmi, S., Ballardini, M., Bethermin, M., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. S., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Calabro, A., Cañas-Herrera, G., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castro, T., Chambers, K. C., Contarini, S., Cooray, A. R., Coupon, J., Davini, S., de la Torre, S., Desprez, G., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Escoffier, S., Ferrari, A. G., Ferreira, P. G., Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Fornari, F., Gabarra, L., Ganga, K., García-Bellido, J., Gautard, V., Gaztanaga, E., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Gregorio, A., Hall, A., Hartley, W. G., Hildebrandt, H., Hjorth, J., Huertas-Company, M., Ilbert, O., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Karagiannis, D., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Libet, G., Loureiro, A., Macias-Perez, J., Maggio, G., Magliocchetti, M., Mancini, C., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maturi, M., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Monaco, P., Moretti, C., Morgante, G., Musi, P., Walton, Nicholas A., Odier, J., Patrizii, L., Pöntinen, M., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Reimberg, P., Risso, I., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Schneider, A., Sereno, M., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Stanford, S. A., Tao, C., Testera, G., Teyssier, R., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., Verza, G., and Shankar, F.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Euclid will provide deep NIR imaging to $\sim$26.5 AB magnitude over $\sim$59 deg$^2$ in its deep and auxiliary fields. The Cosmic DAWN survey complements the deep Euclid data with matched depth multiwavelength imaging and spectroscopy in the UV--IR to provide consistently processed Euclid selected photometric catalogs, accurate photometric redshifts, and measurements of galaxy properties to a redshift of $z\sim 10$. In this paper, we present an overview of the survey, including the footprints of the survey fields, the existing and planned observations, and the primary science goals for the combined data set., Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A&A; Updated references; Updated author list
Published: 2024

5. Euclid preparation. Sensitivity to non-standard particle dark matter model

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Lesgourgues, J., Schwagereit, J., Bucko, J., Parimbelli, G., Giri, S. K., Hervas-Peters, F., Schneider, A., Archidiacono, M., Pace, F., Sakr, Z., Amara, A., Amendola, L., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Aussel, H., Baccigalupi, C., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Cardone, V. F., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Castignani, G., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., De Lucia, G., Di Giorgio, A. M., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Ilić, S., Jahnke, K., Joachimi, B., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kubik, B., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Mainetti, G., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Neissner, C., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Saglia, R., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schewtschenko, J. A., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Sefusatti, E., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Steinwagner, J., Tallada-Crespí, P., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Boucaud, A., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Calabrese, M., Di Ferdinando, D., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Fabbian, G., Farinelli, R., Gracia-Carpio, J., Mauri, N., Nucita, A. A., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Anselmi, S., Ballardini, M., Bertacca, D., Blot, L., Böhringer, H., Borgani, S., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Calabro, A., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castro, T., Chambers, K. C., Contarini, S., Cooray, A. R., Davini, S., De Caro, B., de la Torre, S., Desprez, G., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Escoffier, S., Ferrari, A. G., Ferreira, P. G., Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Fornari, F., Gabarra, L., Ganga, K., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Hildebrandt, H., Hjorth, J., Munñoz, A. Jimenez, Joudaki, S., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Karagiannis, D., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Libet, G., Loureiro, A., Macias-Perez, J., Maggio, G., Magliocchetti, M., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Migliaccio, M., Monaco, P., Moretti, C., Morgante, G., Nadathur, S., Walton, Nicholas A., Patrizii, L., Pezzotta, A., Pöntinen, M., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Reimberg, P., Risso, I., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Sereno, M., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Tao, C., Tessore, N., Testera, G., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., and Verza, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency will provide weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering surveys that can be used to constrain the standard cosmological model and its extensions, with an opportunity to test the properties of dark matter beyond the minimal cold dark matter paradigm. We present forecasts from the combination of these surveys on the parameters describing four interesting and representative non-minimal dark matter models: a mixture of cold and warm dark matter relics; unstable dark matter decaying either into massless or massive relics; and dark matter experiencing feeble interactions with relativistic relics. We model these scenarios at the level of the non-linear matter power spectrum using emulators trained on dedicated N-body simulations. We use a mock Euclid likelihood to fit mock data and infer error bars on dark matter parameters marginalised over other parameters. We find that the Euclid photometric probe (alone or in combination with CMB data from the Planck satellite) will be sensitive to the effect of each of the four dark matter models considered here. The improvement will be particularly spectacular for decaying and interacting dark matter models. With Euclid, the bounds on some dark matter parameters can improve by up to two orders of magnitude compared to current limits. We discuss the dependence of predicted uncertainties on different assumptions: inclusion of photometric galaxy clustering data, minimum angular scale taken into account, modelling of baryonic feedback effects. We conclude that the Euclid mission will be able to measure quantities related to the dark sector of particle physics with unprecedented sensitivity. This will provide important information for model building in high-energy physics. Any hint of a deviation from the minimal cold dark matter paradigm would have profound implications for cosmology and particle physics., Comment: 31 pages, 21 figures
Published: 2024

6. Euclid preparation. Observational expectations for redshift z<7 active galactic nuclei in the Euclid Wide and Deep surveys

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Selwood, M., Fotopoulou, S., Bremer, M. N., Bisigello, L., Landt, H., Bañados, E., Zamorani, G., Shankar, F., Stern, D., Lusso, E., Spinoglio, L., Allevato, V., Ricci, F., Feltre, A., Mannucci, F., Salvato, M., Bowler, R. A. A., Mignoli, M., Vergani, D., La Franca, F., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holliman, M. S., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kubik, B., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Melchior, M., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Rix, Hans-Walter, Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schirmer, M., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Surace, C., Tallada-Crespí, P., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Bolzonella, M., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Colodro-Conde, C., De Lucia, G., Di Ferdinando, D., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Farinelli, R., George, K., Gracia-Carpio, J., Martinelli, M., Mauri, N., Neissner, C., Sakr, Z., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Anselmi, S., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Bethermin, M., Blanchard, A., Blot, L., Borgani, S., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Calabro, A., Canas-Herrera, G., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castignani, G., Castro, T., Chambers, K. C., Contarini, S., Contini, T., Cooray, A. R., Cucciati, O., Davini, S., De Caro, B., Desprez, G., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Escoffier, S., Ferrari, A. G., Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Fontana, A., Fornari, F., Gabarra, L., Ganga, K., García-Bellido, J., Gautard, V., Gaztanaga, E., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Hall, A., Hildebrandt, H., Hjorth, J., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Karagiannis, D., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Libet, G., Loureiro, A., Macias-Perez, J., Maggio, G., Magliocchetti, M., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Monaco, P., Moretti, C., Morgante, G., Nadathur, S., Nicastro, L., Walton, Nicholas A., Patrizii, L., Pezzotta, A., Pöntinen, M., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Risso, I., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Sánchez, A. G., Schneider, A., Sefusatti, E., Sereno, M., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Steinwagner, J., Testera, G., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Verza, G., Weaver, J. R., and Zinchenko, I. A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We forecast the expected population of active galactic nuclei (AGN) observable in the Euclid Wide Survey (EWS) and Euclid Deep Survey (EDS). Starting from an X-ray luminosity function (XLF) we generate volume-limited samples of the AGN expected in the survey footprints. Each AGN is assigned an SED appropriate for its X-ray luminosity and redshift, with perturbations sampled from empirical distributions. The photometric detectability of each AGN is assessed via mock observation of the assigned SED. We estimate 40 million AGN will be detectable in at least one band in the EWS and 0.24 million in the EDS, corresponding to surface densities of 2.8$\times$10$^{3}$ deg$^{-2}$ and 4.7$\times$10$^{3}$ deg$^{-2}$. Employing colour selection criteria on our simulated data we select a sample of 4.8$\times$10$^{6}$ (331 deg$^{-2}$) AGN in the EWS and 1.7$\times$10$^{4}$ (346 deg$^{-2}$) in the EDS, amounting to 10% and 8% of the AGN detectable in the EWS and EDS. Including ancillary Rubin/LSST bands improves the completeness and purity of AGN selection. These data roughly double the total number of selected AGN to comprise 21% and 15% of the detectable AGN in the EWS and EDS. The total expected sample of colour-selected AGN contains 6.0$\times$10$^{6}$ (74%) unobscured AGN and 2.1$\times$10$^{6}$ (26%) obscured AGN, covering $0.02 \leq z \lesssim 5.2$ and $43 \leq \log_{10} (L_{bol} / erg s^{-1}) \leq 47$. With this simple colour selection, expected surface densities are already comparable to the yield of modern X-ray and mid-infrared surveys of similar area. The relative uncertainty on our expectation for detectable AGN is 6.7% for the EWS and 12.5% for the EDS, driven by the uncertainty of the XLF., Comment: 36 pages, 21 figures, submitted to A&A
Published: 2024

7. Euclid preparation. LVIII. Detecting globular clusters in the Euclid survey

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Voggel, K., Lançon, A., Saifollahi, T., Larsen, S. S., Cantiello, M., Rejkuba, M., Cuillandre, J. -C., Hudelot, P., Nucita, A. A., Urbano, M., Romelli, E., Raj, M. A., Schirmer, M., Tortora, C., Abdurro'uf, Annibali, F., Baes, M., Boldrini, P., Cabanac, R., Carollo, D., Conselice, C. J., Duc, P. -A., Ferguson, A. M. N., Hunt, L. K., Knapen, J. H., Lonare, P., Marleau, F. R., Paolillo, M., Poulain, M., Sánchez-Janssen, R., Sola, E., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baccigalupi, C., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carlberg, R. G., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Castignani, G., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., De Lucia, G., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fotopoulou, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., George, K., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Jahnke, K., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Liebing, P., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Neissner, C., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sakr, Z., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Sefusatti, E., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Steinwagner, J., Surace, C., Tallada-Crespí, P., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Bolzonella, M., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Calabrese, M., Di Ferdinando, D., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Farinelli, R., Gracia-Carpio, J., Mauri, N., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Anselmi, S., Ballardini, M., Bethermin, M., Blanchard, A., Blot, L., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. S., Bruton, S., Calabro, A., Canas-Herrera, G., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castro, T., Chambers, K. C., Contarini, S., Cooray, A. R., De Caro, B., Desprez, G., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Escoffier, S., Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Fornari, F., Gabarra, L., Ganga, K., García-Bellido, J., Gautard, V., Gaztanaga, E., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Hall, A., Hildebrandt, H., Hjorth, J., Ilbert, O., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Karagiannis, D., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Libet, G., Loureiro, A., Macias-Perez, J., Maggio, G., Magliocchetti, M., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Monaco, P., Moretti, C., Morgante, G., Walton, Nicholas A., Patrizii, L., Pezzotta, A., Pöntinen, M., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Reimberg, P., Risso, I., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Schneider, A., Sereno, M., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Testera, G., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., Verza, G., Zinchenko, I. A., Mamon, G. A., and Scott, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Extragalactic globular clusters (EGCs) are an abundant and powerful tracer of galaxy dynamics and formation, and their own formation and evolution is also a matter of extensive debate. The compact nature of globular clusters means that they are hard to spatially resolve and thus study outside the Local Group. In this work we have examined how well EGCs will be detectable in images from the Euclid telescope, using both simulated pre-launch images and the first early-release observations of the Fornax galaxy cluster. The Euclid Wide Survey will provide high-spatial resolution VIS imaging in the broad IE band as well as near-infrared photometry (YE, JE, and HE). We estimate that the galaxies within 100 Mpc in the footprint of the Euclid survey host around 830 000 EGCs of which about 350 000 are within the survey's detection limits. For about half of these EGCs, three infrared colours will be available as well. For any galaxy within 50Mpc the brighter half of its GC luminosity function will be detectable by the Euclid Wide Survey. The detectability of EGCs is mainly driven by the residual surface brightness of their host galaxy. We find that an automated machine-learning EGC-classification method based on real Euclid data of the Fornax galaxy cluster provides an efficient method to generate high purity and high completeness GC candidate catalogues. We confirm that EGCs are spatially resolved compared to pure point sources in VIS images of Fornax. Our analysis of both simulated and first on-sky data show that Euclid will increase the number of GCs accessible with high-resolution imaging substantially compared to previous surveys, and will permit the study of GCs in the outskirts of their hosts. Euclid is unique in enabling systematic studies of EGCs in a spatially unbiased and homogeneous manner and is primed to improve our understanding of many understudied aspects of GC astrophysics., Comment: Accepted in A&A
Published: 2024

8. Euclid: Early Release Observations -- The intracluster light and intracluster globular clusters of the Perseus cluster

Author: Kluge, M., Hatch, N. A., Montes, M., Golden-Marx, J. B., Gonzalez, A. H., Cuillandre, J. -C., Bolzonella, M., Lançon, A., Laureijs, R., Saifollahi, T., Schirmer, M., Stone, C., Boselli, A., Cantiello, M., Sorce, J. G., Marleau, F. R., Duc, P. -A., Sola, E., Urbano, M., Ahad, S. L., Bahé, Y. M., Bamford, S. P., Bellhouse, C., Buitrago, F., Dimauro, P., Durret, F., Ellien, A., Jimenez-Teja, Y., Slezak, E., Aghanim, N., Altieri, B., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Candini, G. P., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Dinis, J., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Granett, B. R., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoar, J., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lahav, O., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Melchior, M., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Racca, G. D., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Rix, H. -W., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Sauvage, M., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Seiffert, M., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Skottfelt, J., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Williams, O. R., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Burigana, C., De Lucia, G., George, K., Scottez, V., Simon, P., Mora, A., Martín-Fleitas, J., Ruppin, F., and Scott, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We study the intracluster light (ICL) and intracluster globular clusters (ICGCs) in the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster using Euclid's EROs. By modelling the isophotal and iso-density contours, we mapped the distributions and properties of the ICL and ICGCs out to radii of 200-600 kpc (up to ~1/3 of the virial radius) from the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG). We find that the central 500 kpc hosts 70000$\pm$2800 GCs and $1.7\times10^{12}$ L$_\odot$ of diffuse light from the BCG+ICL in the near-infrared H$_E$. This accounts for 38$\pm$6% of the cluster's total stellar luminosity within this radius. The ICL and ICGCs share a coherent spatial distribution, suggesting a common origin or that a common potential governs their distribution. Their contours on the largest scales (>200 kpc) are offset from the BCG's core westwards by 60 kpc towards several luminous cluster galaxies. This offset is opposite to the displacement observed in the gaseous intracluster medium. The radial surface brightness profile of the BCG+ICL is best described by a double S\'ersic model, with 68$\pm$4% of the H$_E$ light in the extended, outer component. The transition between these components occurs at ~60 kpc, beyond which the isophotes become increasingly elliptical and off-centred. The radial ICGC number density profile closely follows the BCG+ICL profile only beyond this 60 kpc radius, where we find an average of 60-80 GCs per $10^9$ M$_\odot$ of diffuse stellar mass. The BCG+ICL colour becomes increasingly blue with radius, consistent with the stellar populations in the ICL having subsolar metallicities [Fe/H] ~ -0.6 to -1.0. The colour of the ICL, and the specific frequency and luminosity function of the ICGCs suggest that the ICL+ICGCs were tidally stripped from the outskirts of massive satellites with masses of a few $\times10^{10}$ M$_\odot$, with an increasing contribution from dwarf galaxies at large radii., Comment: Paper submitted as part of the A&A special issue `Euclid on Sky', which contains Euclid key reference papers and first results from the Euclid Early Release Observations. 27 pages, 21 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2024

9. Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Dwarf galaxies in the Perseus galaxy cluster

Author: Marleau, F. R., Cuillandre, J. -C., Cantiello, M., Carollo, D., Duc, P. -A., Habas, R., Hunt, L. K., Jablonka, P., Mirabile, M., Mondelin, M., Poulain, M., Saifollahi, T., Sánchez-Janssen, R., Sola, E., Urbano, M., Zöller, R., Bolzonella, M., Lançon, A., Laureijs, R., Marchal, O., Schirmer, M., Stone, C., Boselli, A., Ferré-Mateu, A., Hatch, N. A., Kluge, M., Montes, M., Sorce, J. G., Tortora, C., Venhola, A., Golden-Marx, J. B., Aghanim, N., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Battaglia, P., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Candini, G. P., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Douspis, M., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Fotopoulou, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Hailey, M., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoar, J., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hu, D., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Jhabvala, M., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kuijken, K., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lahav, O., Mignant, D. Le, Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Refregier, A., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Rix, H. -W., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Seiffert, M., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Tsyganov, A., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Williams, O. R., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Baccigalupi, C., Biviano, A., Burigana, C., De Lucia, G., George, K., Scottez, V., Viel, M., Simon, P., Mora, A., Martín-Fleitas, J., and Scott, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We make use of the unprecedented depth, spatial resolution, and field of view of the Euclid Early Release Observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster to detect and characterise the dwarf galaxy population in this massive system. The Euclid high resolution VIS and combined VIS+NIR colour images were visually inspected and dwarf galaxy candidates were identified. Their morphologies, the presence of nuclei, and their globular cluster (GC) richness were visually assessed, complementing an automatic detection of the GC candidates. Structural and photometric parameters, including Euclid filter colours, were extracted from 2-dimensional fitting. Based on this analysis, a total of 1100 dwarf candidates were found across the image, with 638 appearing to be new identifications. The majority (96%) are classified as dwarf ellipticals, 53% are nucleated, 26% are GC-rich, and 6% show disturbed morphologies. A relatively high fraction of galaxies, 8%, are categorised as ultra-diffuse galaxies. The majority of the dwarfs follow the expected scaling relations. Globally, the GC specific frequency, S_N, of the Perseus dwarfs is intermediate between those measured in the Virgo and Coma clusters. While the dwarfs with the largest GC counts are found throughout the Euclid field of view, those located around the east-west strip, where most of the brightest cluster members are found, exhibit larger S_N values, on average. The spatial distribution of the dwarfs, GCs, and intracluster light show a main iso-density/isophotal centre displaced to the west of the bright galaxy light distribution. The ERO imaging of the Perseus cluster demonstrates the unique capability of Euclid to concurrently detect and characterise large samples of dwarfs, their nuclei, and their GC systems, allowing us to construct a detailed picture of the formation and evolution of galaxies over a wide range of mass scales and environments., Comment: 44 pages, 24 figures, 5 tables, paper submitted to A&A as part of the A&A special issue `Euclid on Sky', which contains Euclid key reference papers and first results from the Euclid Early Release Observations
Published: 2024

10. Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Overview of the Perseus cluster and analysis of its luminosity and stellar mass functions

Author: Cuillandre, J. -C., Bolzonella, M., Boselli, A., Marleau, F. R., Mondelin, M., Sorce, J. G., Stone, C., Buitrago, F., Cantiello, Michele, George, K., Hatch, N. A., Quilley, L., Mannucci, F., Saifollahi, T., Sánchez-Janssen, R., Tarsitano, F., Tortora, C., Xu, X., Bouy, H., Gwyn, S., Kluge, M., Lançon, A., Laureijs, R., Schirmer, M., Abdurro'uf, Awad, P., Baes, M., Bournaud, F., Carollo, D., Codis, S., Conselice, C. J., De Lapparent, V., Duc, P. -A., Ferré-Mateu, A., Gillard, W., Golden-Marx, J. B., Jablonka, P., Habas, R., Hunt, L. K., Mei, S., Miville-Deschênes, M. -A., Montes, M., Nersesian, A., Peletier, R. F., Poulain, M., Scaramella, R., Scialpi, M., Sola, E., Stephan, J., Ulivi, L., Urbano, M., Zöller, R., Aghanim, N., Altieri, B., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fotopoulou, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoar, J., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Jhabvala, M., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kuijken, K., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lahav, O., Mignant, D. Le, Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Melchior, M., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Mohr, J. J., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Nakajima, R., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Skottfelt, J., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Burigana, C., Castignani, G., De Lucia, G., Scottez, V., Mora, A., Simon, P., Martín-Fleitas, J., and Scott, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: The Euclid ERO programme targeted the Perseus cluster of galaxies, gathering deep data in the central region of the cluster over 0.7 square degree, corresponding to approximately 0.25 r_200. The data set reaches a point-source depth of IE=28.0 (YE, JE, HE = 25.3) AB magnitudes at 5 sigma with a 0.16" and 0.48" FWHM, and a surface brightness limit of 30.1 (29.2) mag per square arcsec. The exceptional depth and spatial resolution of this wide-field multi-band data enable the simultaneous detection and characterisation of both bright and low surface brightness galaxies, along with their globular cluster systems, from the optical to the NIR. This study advances beyond previous analyses of the cluster and enables a range of scientific investigations summarised here. We derive the luminosity and stellar mass functions (LF and SMF) of the Perseus cluster in the Euclid IE band, thanks to supplementary u,g,r,i,z and Halpha data from the CFHT. We adopt a catalogue of 1100 dwarf galaxies, detailed in the corresponding ERO paper. We identify all other sources in the Euclid images and obtain accurate photometric measurements using AutoProf or AstroPhot for 138 bright cluster galaxies, and SourceExtractor for half a million compact sources. Cluster membership for the bright sample is determined by calculating photometric redshifts with Phosphoros. Our LF and SMF are the deepest recorded for the Perseus cluster, highlighting the groundbreaking capabilities of the Euclid telescope. Both the LF and SMF fit a Schechter plus Gaussian model. The LF features a dip at M(IE)=-19 and a faint-end slope of alpha_S = -1.2 to -1.3. The SMF displays a low-mass-end slope of alpha_S = -1.2 to -1.35. These observed slopes are flatter than those predicted for dark matter halos in cosmological simulations, offering significant insights for models of galaxy formation and evolution., Comment: Submitted to A&A, 44 pages, 35 figures, Part of the A&A special issue `Euclid on Sky', which contains Euclid key reference papers and first results from the Euclid Early Release Observations
Published: 2024

11. Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Globular clusters in the Fornax galaxy cluster, from dwarf galaxies to the intracluster field

Author: Saifollahi, T., Voggel, K., Lançon, A., Cantiello, Michele, Raj, M. A., Cuillandre, J. -C., Larsen, S. S., Marleau, F. R., Venhola, A., Schirmer, M., Carollo, D., Duc, P. -A., Ferguson, A. M. N., Hunt, L. K., Kümmel, M., Laureijs, R., Marchal, O., Nucita, A. A., Peletier, R. F., Poulain, M., Rejkuba, M., Sánchez-Janssen, R., Urbano, M., Abdurro'uf, Altieri, B., Baes, M., Bolzonella, M., Conselice, C. J., Cote, P., Dimauro, P., Gonzalez, A. H., Habas, R., Hudelot, P., Kluge, M., Lonare, P., Massari, D., Romelli, E., Scaramella, R., Sola, E., Stone, C., Tortora, C., van Mierlo, S. E., Knapen, J. H., Martín-Fleitas, J., Mora, A., Román, J., Aghanim, N., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Basset, A., Bender, R., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Fabricius, M., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Granett, B. R., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoar, J., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Jahnke, K., Jhabvala, M., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kuijken, K., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lahav, O., Mignant, D. Le, Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Melchior, M., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Racca, G. D., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Refregier, A., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tsyganov, A., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Williams, O. R., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Burigana, C., Scottez, V., Simon, P., Balogh, M., and Scott, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We present an analysis of Euclid observations of a 0.5 deg$^2$ field in the central region of the Fornax galaxy cluster that were acquired during the performance verification phase. With these data, we investigate the potential of Euclid for identifying GCs at 20 Mpc, and validate the search methods using artificial GCs and known GCs within the field from the literature. Our analysis of artificial GCs injected into the data shows that Euclid's data in $I_{\rm E}$ band is 80% complete at about $I_{\rm E} \sim 26.0$ mag ($M_{V\rm } \sim -5.0$ mag), and resolves GCs as small as $r_{\rm h} = 2.5$ pc. In the $I_{\rm E}$ band, we detect more than 95% of the known GCs from previous spectroscopic surveys and GC candidates of the ACS Fornax Cluster Survey, of which more than 80% are resolved. We identify more than 5000 new GC candidates within the field of view down to $I_{\rm E}$ mag, about 1.5 mag fainter than the typical GC luminosity function turn-over magnitude, and investigate their spatial distribution within the intracluster field. We then focus on the GC candidates around dwarf galaxies and investigate their numbers, stacked luminosity distribution and stacked radial distribution. While the overall GC properties are consistent with those in the literature, an interesting over-representation of relatively bright candidates is found within a small number of relatively GC-rich dwarf galaxies. Our work confirms the capabilities of Euclid data in detecting GCs and separating them from foreground and background contaminants at a distance of 20 Mpc, particularly for low-GC count systems such as dwarf galaxies., Comment: Paper submitted as part of the A&A special issue `Euclid on Sky', which contains Euclid key reference papers and first results from the Euclid Early Release Observations
Published: 2024

12. Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Deep anatomy of nearby galaxies

Author: Hunt, L. K., Annibali, F., Cuillandre, J. -C., Ferguson, A. M. N., Jablonka, P., Larsen, S. S., Marleau, F. R., Schinnerer, E., Schirmer, M., Stone, C., Tortora, C., Saifollahi, T., Lançon, A., Bolzonella, M., Gwyn, S., Kluge, M., Laureijs, R., Carollo, D., Collins, M. L. M., Dimauro, P., Duc, P. -A., Erkal, D., Howell, J. M., Nally, C., Saremi, E., Scaramella, R., Belokurov, V., Conselice, C. J., Knapen, J. H., McConnachie, A. W., McDonald, I., Carretero, J. Miro, Roman, J., Sauvage, M., Sola, E., Aghanim, N., Altieri, B., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Awan, S., Azzollini, R., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Basset, A., Bender, R., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Candini, G. P., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Granett, B. R., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoar, J., Hoekstra, H., Holliman, M. S., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kuijken, K., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lahav, O., Mignant, D. Le, Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Racca, G. D., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Refregier, A., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Scodeggio, M., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Skottfelt, J., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Williams, O. R., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Burigana, C., De Lucia, G., George, K., Scottez, V., Miluzio, M., Simon, P., Mora, A., Martín-Fleitas, J., and Scott, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Euclid is poised to make significant advances in the study of nearby galaxies in the local Universe. Here we present a first look at 6 galaxies observed for the Nearby Galaxy Showcase as part of the Euclid Early Release Observations acquired between August and November, 2023. These targets, 3 dwarf galaxies (HolmbergII, IC10, NGC6822) and 3 spirals (IC342, NGC2403, NGC6744), range in distance from about 0.5 Mpc to 8.8 Mpc. Our assessment of the surface brightness depths in the stacked Euclid images confirms previous estimates in 100 arcsec^2 regions of 1sigma=30.5 mag/arcsec^2 for VIS, but slightly deeper than previous estimates for NISP with 1sigma=29.2-29.4 mag/arcsec^2. By combining Euclid HE, YE, and IE into RGB images, we illustrate the large field-of-view covered by a single Reference Observing Sequence, together with exquisite detail on parsec scales in these nearby galaxies. Radial surface brightness and color profiles demonstrate galaxy colors in agreement with stellar population synthesis models. Standard stellar photometry selection techniques find approximately 1.3 million stars across the 6 galaxy fields. Euclid's resolved stellar photometry allows us to constrain the star-formation histories of these galaxies, by disentangling the distributions of young stars, as well as asymptotic giant branch and red giant branch stellar populations. We finally examine 2 galaxies individually for surrounding satellite systems. Our analysis of the ensemble of dwarf satellites around NGC6744 reveals a new galaxy, EDwC1, a nucleated dwarf spheroidal at the end of a spiral arm. Our new census of the globular clusters around NGC2403 yields 9 new star-cluster candidates, 8 of which with colors indicative of evolved stellar populations. In summary, our investigation of the 6 Showcase galaxies demonstrates that Euclid is a powerful probe of the anatomy of nearby galaxies [abridged]., Comment: 36 pages; 20 figures in main text; 4 Appendices. Submitted to A&A, as part of the A&A special issue `Euclid on Sky', which contains Euclid key reference papers and first results from the Euclid Early Release Observations
Published: 2024

13. Euclid: Early Release Observations -- A glance at free-floating new-born planets in the sigma Orionis cluster

Author: Martín, E. L., {Ž}erjal, M., Bouy, H., Martin-Gonzalez, D., Torres, S. Mu{ň}oz, Barrado, D., Olivares, J., Pérez-Garrido, A., Mas-Buitrago, P., Cruz, P., Solano, E., Osorio, M. R. Zapatero, Lodieu, N., Béjar, V. J. S., Zhang, J. -Y., del Burgo, C., Huélamo, N., Laureijs, R., Mora, A., Saifollahi, T., Cuillandre, J. -C., Schirmer, M., Tata, R., Points, S., Phan-Bao, N., Goldman, B., Casewell, S. L., Reylé, C., Smart, R. L., Aghanim, N., Altieri, B., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Basset, A., Bender, R., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoar, J., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hu, D., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Jhabvala, M., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Mignant, D. Le, Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Melchior, M., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Mohr, J. J., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Racca, G. D., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Rix, Hans-Walter, Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Sauvage, M., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Seiffert, M., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Tsyganov, A., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Wang, Y., Weller, J., Williams, O. R., Zucca, E., Baccigalupi, C., Willis, G., Simon, P., Martín-Fleitas, J., and Scott, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: We provide an early assessment of the imaging capabilities of the Euclid space mission to probe deeply into nearby star-forming regions and associated very young open clusters, and in particular to check to what extent it can shed light on the new-born free-floating planet population. This paper focuses on a low-reddening region observed in just one Euclid pointing where the dust and gas has been cleared out by the hot sigma Orionis star. One late-M and six known spectroscopically confirmed L-type substellar members in the sigma Orionis cluster are used as benchmarks to provide a high-purity procedure to select new candidate members with Euclid. The exquisite angular resolution and depth delivered by the Euclid instruments allow us to focus on bona-fide point sources. A cleaned sample of sigma Orionis cluster substellar members has been produced and the initial mass function (IMF) has been estimated by combining Euclid and Gaia data. Our sigma Orionis substellar IMF is consistent with a power-law distribution with no significant steepening at the planetary-mass end. No evidence of a low-mass cutoff is found down to about 4 Jupiter masses at the young age (3 Myr) of the sigma Orionis open cluster., Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, submitted to the A&A special issue on "Euclid on the sky"
Published: 2024

14. Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Programme overview and pipeline for compact- and diffuse-emission photometry

Author: Cuillandre, J. -C., Bertin, E., Bolzonella, M., Bouy, H., Gwyn, S., Isani, S., Kluge, M., Lai, O., Lançon, A., Lang, D. A., Laureijs, R., Saifollahi, T., Schirmer, M., Stone, C., Abdurro'uf, Aghanim, N., Altieri, B., Annibali, F., Atek, H., Awad, P., Baes, M., Bañados, E., Barrado, D., Belladitta, S., Belokurov, V., Boselli, A., Bournaud, F., Bovy, J., Bowler, R. A. A., Buenadicha, G., Buitrago, F., Cantiello, M., Carollo, D., Codis, S., Collins, M. L. M., Congedo, G., Dalessandro, E., de Lapparent, V., De Paolis, F., Diego, J. M., Dimauro, P., Dinis, J., Dole, H., Duc, P. -A., Erkal, D., Ezziati, M., Ferguson, A. M. N., Ferré-Mateu, A., Franco, A., Gavazzi, R., George, K., Gillard, W., Golden-Marx, J. B., Goldman, B., Gonzalez, A. H., Habas, R., Hartley, W. G., Hatch, N. A., Kohley, R., Hoar, J., Howell, J. M., Hunt, L. K., Jablonka, P., Jauzac, M., Kang, Y., Knapen, J. H., Kneib, J. -P., Kuzma, P. B., Larsen, S. S., Marchal, O., Martín-Fleitas, J., Marcos-Arenal, P., Marleau, F. R., Martín, E. L., Massari, D., McConnachie, A. W., Meneghetti, M., Miluzio, M., Carretero, J. Miro, Miyatake, H., Mondelin, M., Montes, M., Mora, A., Müller, O., Nally, C., Noeske, K., Nucita, A. A., Oesch, P. A., Oguri, M., Peletier, R. F., Poulain, M., Quilley, L., Racca, G. D., Rejkuba, M., Rhodes, J., Rocci, P. -F., Román, J., Sacquegna, S., Saremi, E., Scaramella, R., Schinnerer, E., Serjeant, S., Sola, E., Sorce, J. G., Tarsitano, F., Tereno, I., Toft, S., Tortora, C., Urbano, M., Venhola, A., Voggel, K., Weaver, J. R., Xu, X., Žerjal, M., Zöller, R., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Basset, A., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Branchini, E., Brau-Nogue, S., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Cuby, J. -G., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Douspis, M., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Fabricius, M., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fotopoulou, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Jhabvala, M., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kubik, B., Kuijken, K., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lahav, O., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mellier, Y., Meylan, G., Mohr, J. J., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Peacock, J. A., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Refregier, A., Renzi, A., Riccio, G., Rix, Hans-Walter, Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Skottfelt, J., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Tsyganov, A., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Wang, Y., Weller, J., Williams, O. R., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Baccigalupi, C., Burigana, C., Casenove, P., Liebing, P., Scottez, V., Simon, P., and Scott, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: 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-forming regions. A total of 24 hours observing time was allocated in the early months of operation, engaging the scientific community through an early public data release. We describe the development of the ERO pipeline to create visually compelling images while simultaneously meeting the scientific demands within months of launch, leveraging a pragmatic, data-driven development strategy. The pipeline's key requirements are to preserve the image quality and to provide flux calibration and photometry for compact and extended sources. The pipeline's five pillars are: removal of instrumental signatures; astrometric calibration; photometric calibration; image stacking; and the production of science-ready catalogues for both the VIS and NISP instruments. We report a PSF with a full width at half maximum of 0.16" in the optical and 0.49" in the three NIR bands. Our VIS mean absolute flux calibration is accurate to about 1%, and 10% for NISP due to a limited calibration set; both instruments have considerable colour terms. The median depth is 25.3 and 23.2 AB mag with a SNR of 10 for galaxies, and 27.1 and 24.5 AB mag at an SNR of 5 for point sources for VIS and NISP, respectively. Euclid's ability to observe diffuse emission is exceptional due to its extended PSF nearly matching a pure diffraction halo, the best ever achieved by a wide-field, high-resolution imaging telescope. Euclid offers unparalleled capabilities for exploring the LSB Universe across all scales, also opening a new observational window in the NIR. Median surface-brightness levels of 29.9 and 28.3 AB mag per square arcsec are achieved for VIS and NISP, respectively, for detecting a 10 arcsec x 10 arcsec extended feature at the 1 sigma level., Comment: Submitted to A&A, 44 pages, 36 figures - Part of the A&A special issue `Euclid on Sky', which contains Euclid key reference papers and first results from the Euclid Early Release Observations
Published: 2024

15. Euclid. III. The NISP Instrument

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Jahnke, K., Gillard, W., Schirmer, M., Ealet, A., Maciaszek, T., Prieto, E., Barbier, R., Bonoli, C., Corcione, L., Dusini, S., Grupp, F., Hormuth, F., Ligori, S., Martin, L., Morgante, G., Padilla, C., Toledo-Moreo, R., Trifoglio, M., Valenziano, L., Bender, R., Castander, F. J., Garilli, B., Lilje, P. B., Rix, H. -W., Auricchio, N., Balestra, A., Barriere, J. -C., Battaglia, P., Berthe, M., Bodendorf, C., Boenke, T., Bon, W., Bonnefoi, A., Caillat, A., Capobianco, V., Carle, M., Casas, R., Cho, H., Costille, A., Ducret, F., Ferriol, S., Franceschi, E., Gimenez, J. -L., Holmes, W., Hornstrup, A., Jhabvala, M., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Laureijs, R., Mignant, D. Le, Lloro, I., Medinaceli, E., Mellier, Y., Polenta, G., Racca, G. D., Renzi, A., Salvignol, J. -C., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Seiffert, M., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Strada, P., Smadja, G., Stanco, L., Wachter, S., Anselmi, S., Borsato, E., Caillat, L., Cogato, F., Colodro-Conde, C., Crouzet, P. -E., Conforti, V., D'Alessandro, M., Copin, Y., Cuillandre, J. -C., Davies, J. E., Davini, S., Derosa, A., Diaz, J. J., Di Domizio, S., Di Ferdinando, D., Farinelli, R., Ferrari, A. G., Fornari, F., Gabarra, L., Gutierrez, C. M., Giacomini, F., Lagier, P., Gianotti, F., Krause, O., Madrid, F., Laudisio, F., Macias-Perez, J., Naletto, G., Niclas, M., Marpaud, J., Mauri, N., da Silva, R., Passalacqua, F., Paterson, K., Patrizii, L., Risso, I., Solheim, B. G. B., Scodeggio, M., Stassi, P., Steinwagner, J., Tenti, M., Testera, G., Travaglini, R., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tubio, O., Valieri, C., Vescovi, C., Ventura, S., Aghanim, N., Altieri, B., Amara, A., Amiaux, J., Andreon, S., Aussel, H., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Basset, A., Bonchi, A., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Carbone, C., Cardone, V. F., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Chabaud, P. -Y., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Cuby, J. -G., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Fabricius, M., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Faustini, F., Fosalba, P., Fotopoulou, S., Fourmanoit, N., Frailis, M., Franzetti, P., Galeotta, S., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Granett, B. R., Grazian, A., Guzzo, L., Hailey, M., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoar, J., Hoekstra, H., Hook, I., Hudelot, P., Joachimi, B., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lahav, O., Lindholm, V., Alvarez, J. Lorenzo, Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martignac, J., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Masters, D. C., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Mei, S., Melchior, M., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Mohr, J. J., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Nakajima, R., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Nutma, T., Paech, K., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Peacock, J. A., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Refregier, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rosset, C., Rossetti, E., Rottgering, H. J. A., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sauvage, M., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Serrano, S., Tallada-Crespí, P., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Veropalumbo, A., Vibert, D., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zacchei, A., Zamorani, G., Zerbi, F. M., Zoubian, J., Zucca, E., Appleton, P. N., Baccigalupi, C., Biviano, A., Bolzonella, M., Boucaud, A., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Calabrese, M., Casenove, P., Crocce, M., De Lucia, G., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Fabbian, G., Finelli, F., George, K., Gracia-Carpio, J., Ilić, S., Liebing, P., Liu, C., Mainetti, G., Marcin, S., Martinelli, M., Morris, P. W., Neissner, C., Pezzotta, A., Pöntinen, M., Porciani, C., Sakr, Z., Scottez, V., Sefusatti, E., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Aubourg, E., Ballardini, M., Bertacca, D., Bethermin, M., Blanchard, A., Blot, L., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. S., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Calabro, A., Calderone, G., Canas-Herrera, G., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castignani, G., Castro, T., Chambers, K. C., Charles, Y., Chary, R., Colbert, J., Contarini, S., Contini, T., Cooray, A. R., Costanzi, M., Cucciati, O., De Caro, B., de la Torre, S., Desprez, G., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Dole, H., Escoffier, S., Ferreira, P. G., Ferrero, I., Finoguenov, A., Fontana, A., Ganga, K., García-Bellido, J., Gautard, V., Gaztanaga, E., Gozaliasl, G., Gregorio, A., Hall, A., Hartley, W. G., Hemmati, S., Hildebrandt, H., Hjorth, J., Hosseini, S., Huertas-Company, M., Ilbert, O., Jacobson, J., Joudaki, S., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Karagiannis, D., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Lacasa, F., Brun, V. Le, Graet, J. Le, Legrand, L., Libet, G., Liu, S. J., Loureiro, A., Magliocchetti, M., Mancini, C., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., McPartland, C. J. R., Metcalf, R. B., Migliaccio, M., Miluzio, M., Monaco, P., Moretti, C., Nadathur, S., Nicastro, L., Walton, Nicholas A., Odier, J., Oguri, M., Popa, V., Potter, D., Pourtsidou, A., Rocci, P. -F., Rollins, R. P., Rusholme, B., Sahlén, M., Sánchez, A. G., Scarlata, C., Schaye, J., Schewtschenko, J. A., Schneider, A., Schultheis, M., Sereno, M., Shankar, F., Shulevski, A., Sikkema, G., Silvestri, A., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Stadel, J., Stanford, S. A., Tanidis, K., Tao, C., Tessore, N., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tucci, M., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., Vernizzi, F., Verza, G., Vielzeuf, P., Weaver, J. R., Zalesky, L., Zinchenko, I. A., Archidiacono, M., Atrio-Barandela, F., Bennett, C. L., Bouvard, T., Caro, F., Conseil, S., Dimauro, P., Duc, P. -A., Fang, Y., Ferguson, A. M. N., Gasparetto, T., Kova{č}ić, I., Kruk, S., Brun, A. M. C. Le, Liaudat, T. I., Montoro, A., Mora, A., Murray, C., Pagano, L., Paoletti, D., Radovich, M., Sarpa, E., Tommasi, E., Viitanen, A., Lesgourgues, J., Levi, M. E., and Martín-Fleitas, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: 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 range. In this reference article we illuminate the background of NISP's functional and calibration requirements, describe the instrument's integral components, and provide all its key properties. We also sketch the processes needed to understand how NISP operates and is calibrated, and its technical potentials and limitations. Links to articles providing more details and technical background are included. NISP's 16 HAWAII-2RG (H2RG) detectors with a plate scale of 0.3" pix^-1 deliver a field-of-view of 0.57deg^2. In photo mode, NISP reaches a limiting magnitude of ~24.5AB mag in three photometric exposures of about 100s exposure time, for point sources and with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 5. For spectroscopy, NISP's point-source sensitivity is a SNR = 3.5 detection of an emission line with flux ~2x10^-16erg/s/cm^2 integrated over two resolution elements of 13.4A, in 3x560s grism exposures at 1.6 mu (redshifted Ha). Our calibration includes on-ground and in-flight characterisation and monitoring of detector baseline, dark current, non-linearity, and sensitivity, to guarantee a relative photometric accuracy of better than 1.5%, and relative spectrophotometry to better than 0.7%. The wavelength calibration must be better than 5A. NISP is the state-of-the-art instrument in the NIR for all science beyond small areas available from HST and JWST - and an enormous advance due to its combination of field size and high throughput of telescope and instrument. During Euclid's 6-year survey covering 14000 deg^2 of extragalactic sky, NISP will be the backbone for determining distances of more than a billion galaxies. Its NIR data will become a rich reference imaging and spectroscopy data set for the coming decades., Comment: Paper submitted as part of the A&A special issue 'Euclid on Sky', which contains Euclid key reference papers and first results from the Euclid Early Release Observations
Published: 2024

16. Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Mellier, Y., Abdurro'uf, Barroso, J. A. Acevedo, Achúcarro, A., Adamek, J., Adam, R., Addison, G. E., Aghanim, N., Aguena, M., Ajani, V., Akrami, Y., Al-Bahlawan, A., Alavi, A., Albuquerque, I. S., Alestas, G., Alguero, G., Allaoui, A., Allen, S. W., Allevato, V., Alonso-Tetilla, A. V., Altieri, B., Alvarez-Candal, A., Alvi, S., Amara, A., Amendola, L., Amiaux, J., Andika, I. T., Andreon, S., Andrews, A., Angora, G., Angulo, R. E., Annibali, F., Anselmi, A., Anselmi, S., Arcari, S., Archidiacono, M., Aricò, G., Arnaud, M., Arnouts, S., Asgari, M., Asorey, J., Atayde, L., Atek, H., Atrio-Barandela, F., Aubert, M., Aubourg, E., Auphan, T., Auricchio, N., Aussel, B., Aussel, H., Avelino, P. P., Avgoustidis, A., Avila, S., Awan, S., Azzollini, R., Baccigalupi, C., Bachelet, E., Bacon, D., Baes, M., Bagley, M. B., Bahr-Kalus, B., Balaguera-Antolinez, A., Balbinot, E., Balcells, M., Baldi, M., Baldry, I., Balestra, A., Ballardini, M., Ballester, O., Balogh, M., Bañados, E., Barbier, R., Bardelli, S., Baron, M., Barreiro, T., Barrena, R., Barriere, J. -C., Barros, B. J., Barthelemy, A., Bartolo, N., Basset, A., Battaglia, P., Battisti, A. J., Baugh, C. M., Baumont, L., Bazzanini, L., Beaulieu, J. -P., Beckmann, V., Belikov, A. N., Bel, J., Bellagamba, F., Bella, M., Bellini, E., Benabed, K., Bender, R., Benevento, G., Bennett, C. L., Benson, K., Bergamini, P., Bermejo-Climent, J. R., Bernardeau, F., Bertacca, D., Berthe, M., Berthier, J., Bethermin, M., Beutler, F., Bevillon, C., Bhargava, S., Bhatawdekar, R., Bianchi, D., Bisigello, L., Biviano, A., Blake, R. P., Blanchard, A., Blazek, J., Blot, L., Bosco, A., Bodendorf, C., Boenke, T., Böhringer, H., Boldrini, P., Bolzonella, M., Bonchi, A., Bonici, M., Bonino, D., Bonino, L., Bonvin, C., Bon, W., Booth, J. T., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. Euclid is a medium-class mission in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) that will provide high-resolution optical imaging, as well as near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy, over about 14,000 deg^2 of extragalactic sky. In addition to accurate weak lensing and clustering measurements that probe structure formation over half of the age of the Universe, its primary probes for cosmology, these exquisite data will enable a wide range of science. This paper provides a high-level overview of the mission, summarising the survey characteristics, the various data-processing steps, and data products. We also highlight the main science objectives and expected performance., Comment: Accepted for publication in the A&A special issue`Euclid on Sky'
Published: 2024

17. Euclid. II. The VIS Instrument

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Cropper, M. S., Al-Bahlawan, A., Amiaux, J., Awan, S., Azzollini, R., Benson, K., Berthe, M., Boucher, J., Bozzo, E., Brockley-Blatt, C., Candini, G. P., Cara, C., Chaudery, R. A., Cole, R. E., Danto, P., Denniston, J., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dryer, B., Dubois, J. -P., Endicott, J., Farina, M., Galli, E., Genolet, L., Gow, J. P. D., Guttridge, P., Hailey, M., Hall, D., Harper, C., Hoekstra, H., Holland, A. D., Horeau, B., Hu, D., James, R. E., Khalil, A., King, R., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Larcheveque, C., Lawrenson, A., Liebing, P., Liu, S. J., Martignac, J., Massey, R., McCracken, H. J., Miller, L., Murray, N., Nakajima, R., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Paltani, S., Pendem, A., Philippon, A., Plana, C., Pool, P., Pottinger, S., Racca, G. D., Rhodes, J., Rousseau, A., Ruane, K., Salatti, M., Salvignol, J. -C., Sciortino, A., Short, A., Skottfelt, J., Smit, S. J. A., Swindells, I., Szafraniec, M., Thomas, P. D., Thomas, W., Tommasi, E., Tosti, S., Visticot, F., Walton, D. M., Willis, G., Winter, B., Aghanim, N., Altieri, B., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Aussel, H., Baccigalupi, C., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Basset, A., Bender, R., Bernardeau, F., Bodendorf, C., Boenke, T., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Cardone, V. F., Carretero, J., Casas, R., Casas, S., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Castignani, G., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Crocce, M., Cuby, J. -G., Cuillandre, J. -C., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., De Lucia, G., Dinis, J., Dolding, C., Douspis, M., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Fabricius, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Fotopoulou, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Frugier, P. -A., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., George, K., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Granett, B. R., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Herent, O., Hoar, J., Holliman, M. S., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Ilić, S., Jahnke, K., Jhabvala, M., Joachimi, B., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kubik, B., Kuijken, K., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lahav, O., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Alvarez, J. Lorenzo, Mainetti, G., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marcin, S., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Masters, D. C., Maurogordato, S., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Melchior, M., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Mohr, J. J., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Neissner, C., Nichol, R. C., Nutma, T., Padilla, C., Paech, K., Pasian, F., Peacock, J. A., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Refregier, A., Renzi, A., Riccio, G., Rix, Hans-Walter, Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rosset, C., Rossetti, E., Rottgering, H. J. A., Rusholme, B., Saglia, R., Sakr, Z., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Sauvage, M., Scaramella, R., Schewtschenko, J. A., Schirmer, M., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Sefusatti, E., Seidel, G., Seiffert, M., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Starck, J. -L., Steinwagner, J., Tallada-Crespí, P., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Veropalumbo, A., Wachter, S., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Bolzonella, M., Boucaud, A., Burigana, C., Calabrese, M., Casenove, P., Di Ferdinando, D., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Fabbian, G., Farinelli, R., Finelli, F., Gracia-Carpio, J., Israel, H., Mauri, N., Nguyen-Kim, H. N., Pezzotta, A., Pöntinen, M., Porciani, C., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Anselmi, S., Aubourg, E., Ballardini, M., Bertacca, D., Bethermin, M., Blanchard, A., Blot, L., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. S., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Calabro, A., Calderone, G., Canas-Herrera, G., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castro, T., Chambers, K. C., Chary, R., Contarini, S., Cooray, A. R., Cordes, O., Costanzi, M., Cucciati, O., Davini, S., De Caro, B., Desprez, G., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Escoffier, S., Ferrari, A. G., Ferreira, P. G., Ferrero, I., Finoguenov, A., Fontana, A., Fornari, F., Gabarra, L., Ganga, K., García-Bellido, J., Gautard, V., Gaztanaga, E., Giacomini, F., Gianotti, F., Gozaliasl, G., Gregorio, A., Hall, A., Hartley, W. G., Hildebrandt, H., Hjorth, J., Huertas-Company, M., Ilbert, O., Muñoz, A. Jimenez, Joudaki, S., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Karagiannis, D., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Lacasa, F., Graet, J. Le, Legrand, L., Libet, G., Loureiro, A., Macias-Perez, J., Magliocchetti, M., Mancini, C., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., McPartland, C. J. R., Metcalf, R. B., Migliaccio, M., Miluzio, M., Monaco, P., Moretti, C., Morgante, G., Nadathur, S., Walton, Nicholas A., Odier, J., Oguri, M., Patrizii, L., Popa, V., Potter, D., Pourtsidou, A., Reimberg, P., Risso, I., Rocci, P. -F., Rollins, R. P., Sahlén, M., Scarlata, C., Schaye, J., Schneider, A., Schultheis, M., Sereno, M., Shankar, F., Sikkema, G., Silvestri, A., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Stadel, J., Stanford, S. A., Tanidis, K., Tao, C., Tessore, N., Testera, G., Tewes, M., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., Vernizzi, F., Verza, G., Vielzeuf, P., Weaver, J. R., Zalesky, L., Zinchenko, I. A., Archidiacono, M., Atrio-Barandela, F., Bouvard, T., Caro, F., Dimauro, P., Duc, P. -A., Fang, Y., Ferguson, A. M. N., Gasparetto, T., Gutierrez, C. M., Kovačić, I., Kruk, S., Brun, A. M. C. Le, Liaudat, T. I., Montoro, A., Mora, A., Murray, C., Pagano, L., Paoletti, D., Sarpa, E., Viitanen, A., Lesgourgues, J., Martín-Fleitas, J., and Scott, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: 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 0.54 deg^2 sampled at 0.1" with an array of 609 Megapixels and spatial resolution of 0.18". It will be used to survey approximately 14,000 deg^2 of extragalactic sky to measure the distortion of galaxies in the redshift range z=0.1-1.5 resulting from weak gravitational lensing, one of the two principal cosmology probes of Euclid. With photometric redshifts, the distribution of dark matter can be mapped in three dimensions, and, from how this has changed with look-back time, the nature of dark energy and theories of gravity can be constrained. The entire VIS focal plane will be transmitted to provide the largest images of the Universe from space to date, reaching m_AB>24.5 with S/N >10 in a single broad I_E~(r+i+z) band over a six year survey. The particularly challenging aspects of the instrument are the control and calibration of observational biases, which lead to stringent performance requirements and calibration regimes. With its combination of spatial resolution, calibration knowledge, depth, and area covering most of the extra-Galactic sky, VIS will also provide a legacy data set for many other fields. This paper discusses the rationale behind the VIS concept and describes the instrument design and development before reporting the pre-launch performance derived from ground calibrations and brief results from the in-orbit commissioning. VIS should reach fainter than m_AB=25 with S/N>10 for galaxies of full-width half-maximum of 0.3" in a 1.3" diameter aperture over the Wide Survey, and m_AB>26.4 for a Deep Survey that will cover more than 50 deg^2. The paper also describes how VIS works with the other Euclid components of survey, telescope, and science data processing to extract the cosmological information., Comment: Paper submitted as part of the A&A special issue `Euclid on Sky', which contains Euclid key reference papers and first results from the Euclid Early Release Observations (A&A reference aa50996-24). This revision is the version accepted by A&A on 19 September 2024. Other than changes to the author list, changes are limited to editorial and journal style
Published: 2024
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18. Euclid preparation. Sensitivity to neutrino parameters

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Archidiacono, M., Lesgourgues, J., Casas, S., Pamuk, S., Schöneberg, N., Sakr, Z., Parimbelli, G., Schneider, A., Peters, F. Hervas, Pace, F., Sabarish, V. M., Costanzi, M., Camera, S., Carbone, C., Clesse, S., Frusciante, N., Fumagalli, A., Monaco, P., Scott, D., Viel, M., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Capobianco, V., Cardone, V. F., Carretero, J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Jahnke, K., Joachimi, B., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kubik, B., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Niemi, S. -M., Nightingale, J. W., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schirmer, M., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Boucaud, A., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Calabrese, M., Colodro-Conde, C., Crocce, M., Fabbian, G., Graciá-Carpio, J., Mainetti, G., Martinelli, M., Mauri, N., Neissner, C., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Anselmi, S., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Bernardeau, F., Bertacca, D., Borgani, S., Borsato, E., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castignani, G., Castro, T., Cañas-Herrera, G., Chambers, K. C., Contarini, S., Cooray, A. R., Coupon, J., Davini, S., de la Torre, S., De Lucia, G., Desprez, G., Di Domizio, S., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Escoffier, S., Ferreira, P. G., Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Gabarra, L., Ganga, K., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Gregorio, A., Hall, A., Hildebrandt, H., Ilić, S., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Karagiannis, D., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Loureiro, A., Macias-Perez, J., Maggio, G., Magliocchetti, M., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Migliaccio, M., Morgante, G., Nadathur, S., Walton, Nicholas A., Patrizii, L., Pezzotta, A., Pöntinen, M., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Reimberg, P., Risso, I., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Sánchez, A. G., Sefusatti, E., Sereno, M., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Steinwagner, J., Testera, G., Tewes, M., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., Verza, G., and Vielzeuf, P.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency will deliver weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering surveys that can be used to constrain the standard cosmological model and extensions thereof. We present forecasts from the combination of these surveys on the sensitivity to cosmological parameters including the summed neutrino mass $M_\nu$ and the effective number of relativistic species $N_{\rm eff}$ in the standard $\Lambda$CDM scenario and in a scenario with dynamical dark energy ($w_0 w_a$CDM). We compare the accuracy of different algorithms predicting the nonlinear matter power spectrum for such models. We then validate several pipelines for Fisher matrix and MCMC forecasts, using different theory codes, algorithms for numerical derivatives, and assumptions concerning the non-linear cut-off scale. The Euclid primary probes alone will reach a sensitivity of $\sigma(M_\nu)=$56meV in the $\Lambda$CDM+$M_\nu$ model, whereas the combination with CMB data from Planck is expected to achieve $\sigma(M_\nu)=$23meV and raise the evidence for a non-zero neutrino mass to at least the $2.6\sigma$ level. This can be pushed to a $4\sigma$ detection if future CMB data from LiteBIRD and CMB Stage-IV are included. In combination with Planck, Euclid will also deliver tight constraints on $\Delta N_{\rm eff}< 0.144$ (95%CL) in the $\Lambda$CDM+$M_\nu$+$N_{\rm eff}$ model, or $\Delta N_{\rm eff}< 0.063$ when future CMB data are included. When floating $(w_0, w_a)$, we find that the sensitivity to $N_{\rm eff}$ remains stable, while that to $M_\nu$ degrades at most by a factor 2. This work illustrates the complementarity between the Euclid spectroscopic and imaging/photometric surveys and between Euclid and CMB constraints. Euclid will have a great potential for measuring the neutrino mass and excluding well-motivated scenarios with additional relativistic particles., Comment: 48 pages, 33 figures
Published: 2024
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19. Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for the detection of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the AGILE space mission data

Author: Rizzo, A., Parmiggiani, N., Bulgarelli, A., Macaluso, A., Fioretti, V., Castaldini, L., Di Piano, A., Panebianco, G., Pittori, C., Tavani, M., Sartori, C., Burigana, C., Cardone, V., Farsian, F., Meneghetti, M., Murante, G., Scaramella, R., Schillirò, F., Testa, V., and Trombetti, T.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
Abstract: Quantum computing represents a cutting-edge frontier in artificial intelligence. It makes use of hybrid quantum-classical computation which tries to leverage quantum mechanic principles that allow us to use a different approach to deep learning classification problems. The work presented here falls within the context of the AGILE space mission, launched in 2007 by the Italian Space Agency. We implement different Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNN) that analyze data acquired by the instruments onboard AGILE to detect Gamma-Ray Bursts from sky maps or light curves. We use several frameworks such as TensorFlow-Quantum, Qiskit and PennyLane to simulate a quantum computer. We achieved an accuracy of 95.1% on sky maps with QCNNs, while the classical counterpart achieved 98.8% on the same data, using however hundreds of thousands more parameters., Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of the ADASS XXXIII (2023) conference, to appear in ASP Conference Serie
Published: 2024

20. Euclid preparation XLVI. The Near-IR Background Dipole Experiment with Euclid

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Kashlinsky, A., Arendt, R. G., Ashby, M. L. N., Atrio-Barandela, F., Scaramella, R., Strauss, M. A., Altieri, B., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Jahnke, K., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kubik, B., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Schirmer, M., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Seiffert, M., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Surace, C., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Colodro-Conde, C., Di Ferdinando, D., Fabbian, G., Farinelli, R., Graciá-Carpio, J., Mainetti, G., Martinelli, M., Mauri, N., Neissner, C., Sakr, Z., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Anselmi, S., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Blanchard, A., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. S., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castignani, G., Castro, T., Cañas-Herrera, G., Chambers, K. C., Contarini, S., Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Desprez, G., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Gabarra, L., García-Bellido, J., Gautard, V., Gaztanaga, E., George, K., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Gregorio, A., Hall, A., Hildebrandt, H., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Loureiro, A., Magliocchetti, M., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Migliaccio, M., Monaco, P., Morgante, G., Nadathur, S., Walton, Nicholas A., Patrizii, L., Popa, V., Potter, D., Pöntinen, M., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Schneider, A., Sefusatti, E., Sereno, M., Steinwagner, J., Testera, G., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., Verza, G., and Hasinger, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: Verifying the fully kinematic nature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) dipole is of fundamental importance in cosmology. In the standard cosmological model with the Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric from the inflationary expansion the CMB dipole should be entirely kinematic. Any non-kinematic CMB dipole component would thus reflect the preinflationary structure of spacetime probing the extent of the FLRW applicability. Cosmic backgrounds from galaxies after the matter-radiation decoupling, should have kinematic dipole component identical in velocity with the CMB kinematic dipole. Comparing the two can lead to isolating the CMB non-kinematic dipole. It was recently proposed that such measurement can be done using the near-IR cosmic infrared background (CIB) measured with the currently operating Euclid telescope, and later with Roman. The proposed method reconstructs the resolved CIB, the Integrated Galaxy Light (IGL), from Euclid's Wide Survey and probes its dipole, with a kinematic component amplified over that of the CMB by the Compton-Getting effect. The amplification coupled with the extensive galaxy samples forming the IGL would determine the CIB dipole with an overwhelming signal/noise, isolating its direction to sub-degree accuracy. We develop details of the method for Euclid's Wide Survey in 4 bands spanning 0.6 to 2 mic. We isolate the systematic and other uncertainties and present methodologies to minimize them, after confining the sample to the magnitude range with negligible IGL/CIB dipole from galaxy clustering. These include the required star-galaxy separation, accounting for the extinction correction dipole using the method newly developed here achieving total separation, accounting for the Earth's orbital motion and other systematic effects. (Abridged), Comment: Euclid Key Project paper, A&A, in press
Published: 2024

21. LOFAR HBA Observations of the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN)

Author: Bondi, M., Scaramella, R., Zamorani, G., Ciliegi, P., Vitello, F., Arias, M., Best, P. N., Bonato, M., Botteon, A., Brienza, M., Brunetti, G., Hardcastle, M. J., Magliocchetti, M., Massaro, F., Morabito, L. K., Pentericci, L., Prandoni, I., Röttgering, H. J. A., Shimwell, T. W., Tasse, C., van Weeren, R. J., and White, G. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We present the first deep (72 hours of observations) radio image of the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN) obtained with the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) High Band Antenna (HBA) at 144 MHz. The EDFN is the latest addition to the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) Deep Fields and these observations represent the first data release for this field. The observations produced a 6" resolution image with a central r.m.s. noise of $32\,\mu$Jy\,beam$^{-1}$. A catalogue of $\sim 23,000$ radio sources above a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold of 5 is extracted from the inner circular 10 deg$^2$ region. We discuss the data analysis and we provide a detailed description of how we derived the catalogue of radio sources and on the issues related to direction-dependent calibration and their effects on the final products. Finally, we derive the radio source counts at 144 MHz in the EDFN using catalogues of mock radio sources to derive the completeness correction factors. The source counts in the EDFN are consistent with those obtained from the first data release of the other LoTSS Deep Fields (ELAIS-N1, Lockman Hole and Bootes), despite the different method adopted to construct the final catalogue and to assess its completeness., Comment: accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2023

22. Euclid preparation. LII. Forecast impact of super-sample covariance on 3x2pt analysis with Euclid

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Sciotti, D., Beauchamps, S. Gouyou, Cardone, V. F., Camera, S., Tutusaus, I., Lacasa, F., Barreira, A., Bonici, M., Gorce, A., Aubert, M., Baratta, P., Upham, R. E., Carbone, C., Casas, S., Ilić, S., Martinelli, M., Sakr, Z., Schneider, A., Maoli, R., Scaramella, R., Escoffier, S., Gillard, W., Aghanim, N., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baccigalupi, C., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bernardeau, F., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Capobianco, V., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Castignani, G., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., De Lucia, G., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Joachimi, B., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Mainetti, G., Maino, D., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Neissner, C., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Saglia, R., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Schirmer, M., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Sefusatti, E., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Starck, J. -L., Steinwagner, J., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zacchei, A., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Boucaud, A., Bozzo, E., Di Ferdinando, D., Farinelli, R., Graciá-Carpio, J., Mauri, N., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Ballardini, M., Blanchard, A., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. S., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castro, T., Cañas-Herrera, G., Chambers, K. C., Cooray, A. R., Coupon, J., Davini, S., Desprez, G., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Di Domizio, S., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Gabarra, L., Ganga, K., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Hildebrandt, H., Jacobson, J., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Loureiro, A., Macias-Perez, J., Magliocchetti, M., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Migliaccio, M., Monaco, P., Morgante, G., Nadathur, S., Nucita, A. A., Patrizii, L., Pöntinen, M., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Pourtsidou, A., Sereno, M., Simon, P., Mancini, A. Spurio, Stadel, J., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tucci, M., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., and Viel, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Deviations from Gaussianity in the distribution of the fields probed by large-scale structure surveys generate additional terms in the data covariance matrix, increasing the uncertainties in the measurement of the cosmological parameters. Super-sample covariance (SSC) is among the largest of these non-Gaussian contributions, with the potential to significantly degrade constraints on some of the parameters of the cosmological model under study - especially for weak lensing cosmic shear. We compute and validate the impact of SSC on the forecast uncertainties on the cosmological parameters for the Euclid photometric survey, obtained with a Fisher matrix analysis, both considering the Gaussian covariance alone and adding the SSC term - computed through the public code $\tt{PySSC}$. The photometric probes are considered in isolation and combined in the '3$\times$2pt' analysis. We find the SSC impact to be non-negligible - halving the Figure of Merit of the dark energy parameters $(w_0, w_a)$ in the 3$\times$2pt case and substantially increasing the uncertainties on $\Omega_{{\rm m}, 0}, w_0$, and $\sigma_8$ for cosmic shear; photometric galaxy clustering, on the other hand, is less affected due to the lower probe response. The relative impact of SSC does not show significant changes under variations of the redshift binning scheme, while it is smaller for weak lensing when marginalising over the multiplicative shear bias nuisance parameters, which also leads to poorer constraints on the cosmological parameters. Finally, we explore how the use of prior information on the shear and galaxy bias changes the SSC impact. Improving shear bias priors does not have a significant impact, while galaxy bias must be calibrated to sub-percent level to increase the Figure of Merit by the large amount needed to achieve the value when SSC is not included., Comment: 22 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2023
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23. Euclid preparation: XXII. Selection of Quiescent Galaxies from Mock Photometry using Machine Learning

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Humphrey, A., Bisigello, L., Cunha, P. A. C., Bolzonella, M., Fotopoulou, S., Caputi, K., Tortora, C., Zamorani, G., Papaderos, P., Vergani, D., Brinchmann, J., Moresco, M., Amara, A., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Bender, R., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Gomez-Alvarez, P., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Jahnke, K., Kummel, M., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Melchior, M., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Niemi, S. M., Nightingale, J., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Scodeggio, M., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespi, P., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zacchei, A., Zoubian, J., Andreon, S., Bardelli, S., Boucaud, A., Farinelli, R., Gracia-Carpio, J., Maino, D., Mauri, N., Mei, S., Morisset, N., Sureau, F., Tenti, M., Tramacere, A., Zucca, E., Baccigalupi, C., Balaguera-Antolinez, A., Biviano, A., Blanchard, A., Borgani, S., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Casas, S., Castignani, G., Colodro-Conde, C., Cooray, A. R., Coupon, J., Courtois, H. M., Cucciati, O., Davini, S., De Lucia, G., Dole, H., Escartin, J. A., Escoffier, S., Fabricius, M., Farina, M., Finelli, F., Ganga, K., Garcia-Bellido, J., George, K., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Hook, I., Huertas-Company, M., Joachimi, B., Kansal, V., Kashlinsky, A., Keihanen, E., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Lindholm, V., Mainetti, G., Maoli, R., Marcin, S., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Maturi, M., Metcalf, R. B., Morgante, G., Nucita, A. A., Patrizii, L., Peel, A., Pollack, J. E., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Reimberg, P., Sanchez, A. G., Schirmer, M., Schultheis, M., Scottez, V., Sefusatti, E., Stadel, J., Teyssier, R., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Viel, M., Calura, F., and Hildebrandt, H.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: The Euclid Space Telescope will provide deep imaging at optical and near-infrared wavelengths, along with slitless near-infrared spectroscopy, across ~15,000 sq deg of the sky. Euclid is expected to detect ~12 billion astronomical sources, facilitating new insights into cosmology, galaxy evolution, and various other topics. To optimally exploit the expected very large data set, there is the need to develop appropriate methods and software. Here we present a novel machine-learning based methodology for selection of quiescent galaxies using broad-band Euclid I_E, Y_E, J_E, H_E photometry, in combination with multiwavelength photometry from other surveys. The ARIADNE pipeline uses meta-learning to fuse decision-tree ensembles, nearest-neighbours, and deep-learning methods into a single classifier that yields significantly higher accuracy than any of the individual learning methods separately. The pipeline has `sparsity-awareness', so that missing photometry values are still informative for the classification. Our pipeline derives photometric redshifts for galaxies selected as quiescent, aided by the `pseudo-labelling' semi-supervised method. After application of the outlier filter, our pipeline achieves a normalized mean absolute deviation of ~< 0.03 and a fraction of catastrophic outliers of ~< 0.02 when measured against the COSMOS2015 photometric redshifts. We apply our classification pipeline to mock galaxy photometry catalogues corresponding to three main scenarios: (i) Euclid Deep Survey with ancillary ugriz, WISE, and radio data; (ii) Euclid Wide Survey with ancillary ugriz, WISE, and radio data; (iii) Euclid Wide Survey only. Our classification pipeline outperforms UVJ selection, in addition to the Euclid I_E-Y_E, J_E-H_E and u-I_E,I_E-J_E colour-colour methods, with improvements in completeness and the F1-score of up to a factor of 2. (Abridged), Comment: 37 pages (including appendices), 26 figures; accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2022
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24. Euclid preparation. XVIII. The NISP photometric system

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Schirmer, M., Jahnke, K., Seidel, G., Aussel, H., Bodendorf, C., Grupp, F., Hormuth, F., Wachter, S., Appleton, P. N., Barbier, R., Brinchmann, J., Carrasco, J. M., Castander, F. J., Coupon, J., De Paolis, F., Franco, A., Ganga, K., Hudelot, P., Jullo, E., Lancon, A., Nucita, A. A., Paltani, S., Smadja, G., Venancio, L. M. G., Strafella, F., Weiler, M., Amara, A., Auphan, T., Auricchio, N., Balestra, A., Bender, R., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, R., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Costille, A., Courbin, F., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hornstrup, A., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maciaszek, T., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. M., Padilla, C., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Prieto, E., Raison, F., Rhodes, J., Rix, H. -W., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Trifoglio, M., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Andreon, S., Bardelli, S., Boucaud, A., Camera, S., Farinelli, R., Graciá-Carpio, J., Maino, D., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Morisset, N., Polenta, G., Renzi, A., Romelli, E., Tenti, M., Vassallo, T., Zacchei, A., Zucca, E., Baccigalupi, C., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Biviano, A., Blanchard, A., Borgani, S., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Casas, S., Castignani, G., Colodro-Conde, C., Cooray, A. R., Courtois, H. M., Crocce, M., Cuby, J. -G., Davini, S., de la Torre, S., Di Ferdinando, D., Escartin, J. A., Farina, M., Ferreira, P. G., Finelli, F., Fotopoulou, S., Galeotta, S., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, K., Gozaliasl, G., Hook, I. M., Ilić, S., Kansal, V., Kashlinsky, A., Keihanen, E., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Lindholm, V., Mainetti, G., Maoli, R., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Maturi, M., Mauri, N., McCracken, H. J., Metcalf, R. B., Monaco, P., Morgante, G., Nightingale, J., Patrizii, L., Peel, A., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Reimberg, P., Riccio, G., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Scottez, V., Sefusatti, E., Teyssier, R., Tutusaus, I., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Viel, M., and Hildebrandt, H.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Euclid will be the first space mission to survey most of the extragalactic sky in the 0.95-2.02 $\mu$m range, to a 5$\sigma$ point-source median depth of 24.4 AB mag. This unique photometric data set will find wide use beyond Euclid's core science. In this paper, we present accurate computations of the Euclid Y_E, J_E and H_E passbands used by the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP), and the associated photometric system. We pay particular attention to passband variations in the field of view, accounting among others for spatially variable filter transmission, and variations of the angle of incidence on the filter substrate using optical ray tracing. The response curves' cut-on and cut-off wavelengths - and their variation in the field of view - are determined with 0.8 nm accuracy, essential for the photometric redshift accuracy required by Euclid. After computing the photometric zeropoints in the AB mag system, we present linear transformations from and to common ground-based near-infrared photometric systems, for normal stars, red and brown dwarfs, and galaxies separately. A Python tool to compute accurate magnitudes for arbitrary passbands and spectral energy distributions is provided. We discuss various factors from space weathering to material outgassing that may slowly alter Euclid's spectral response. At the absolute flux scale, the Euclid in-flight calibration program connects the NISP photometric system to Hubble Space Telescope spectrophotometric white dwarf standards; at the relative flux scale, the chromatic evolution of the response is tracked at the milli-mag level. In this way, we establish an accurate photometric system that is fully controlled throughout Euclid's lifetime., Comment: 33 pages, 25 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2022
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25. Euclid preparation: XVIII. Cosmic Dawn Survey. Spitzer observations of the Euclid deep fields and calibration fields

Author: Moneti, Andrea, McCracken, H. J., Shuntov, M., Kauffmann, O. B., Capak, P., Davidzon, I., Ilbert, O., Scarlata, C., Toft, S., Weaver, J., Chary, R., Cuby, J., Faisst, A. L., Masters, D. C., McPartland, C., Mobasher, B., Sanders, D. B., Scaramella, R., Stern, D., Szapudi, I., Teplitz, H., Zalesky, L., Amara, A., Auricchio, N., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brau-Nogue, S., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Costille, A., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Granett, B. R., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kuemmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Niemi, S. M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Rhodes, J., Rix, H., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespi, P., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Wang, Y., Welikala, N., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Andreon, S., Bardelli, S., Camera, S., Gracia-Carpio, J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Polenta, G., Romelli, E., Sureau, F., Tenti, M., Vassallo, T., Zacchei, A., Zucca, E., Baccigalupi, C., Balaguera-Antolinez, A., Bernardeau, F., Biviano, A., Bolzonella, M., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Casas, S., Castignani, G., Colodro-Conde, C., Coupon, J., Courtois, H. M., Di Ferdinando, D., Farina, M., Finelli, F., Flose-Reimberg, P., Fotopoulou, S., Galeotta, S., Ganga, K., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gozaliasl, G., Hook, I., Joachimi, B., Kansal, V., Keihanen, E., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Lindholm, V., Mainetti, G., Maino, D., Maoli, R., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Maturi, M., Metcalf, R. B., Morgante, G., Morisset, N., Nucita, A., Patrizii, L., Potter, D., Renzi, A., Riccio, G., Sanchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Schirmer, M., Schultheis, M., Scottez, V., Sefusatti, E., Teyssier, R., Tubio, O., Tutusaus, I., Valiviita, J., Viel, M., and Hildebrandt, H.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a new infrared survey covering the three Euclid deep fields and four other Euclid calibration fields using Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). We have combined these new observations with all relevant IRAC archival data of these fields in order to produce the deepest possible mosaics of these regions. In total, these observations represent nearly 11% of the total Spitzer mission time. The resulting mosaics cover a total of approximately 71.5deg$^2$ in the 3.6 and 4.5um bands, and approximately 21.8deg$^2$ in the 5.8 and 8um bands. They reach at least 24 AB magnitude (measured to sigma, in a 2.5 arcsec aperture) in the 3.6um band and up to ~ 5 mag deeper in the deepest regions. The astrometry is tied to the Gaia astrometric reference system, and the typical astrometric uncertainty for sources with 16<[3.6]<19 is <0.15 arcsec. The photometric calibration is in excellent agreement with previous WISE measurements. We have extracted source number counts from the 3.6um band mosaics and they are in excellent agreement with previous measurements. Given that the Spitzer Space Telescope has now been decommissioned these mosaics are likely to be the definitive reduction of these IRAC data. This survey therefore represents an essential first step in assembling multi-wavelength data on the Euclid deep fields which are set to become some of the premier fields for extragalactic astronomy in the 2020s., Comment: 15 pages with 11 figures, approved by Euclid Consortium Publication Board and submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics. Data products will become available via the IRSA website once the paper is accepted. This paper is a companion to "COSMOS2020: A panchromatic view of the Universe to z~10 from two complementary catalogs" by John Weaver et al., which is being posted in parallel
Published: 2021
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26. Euclid: Constraining ensemble photometric redshift distributions with stacked spectroscopy

Author: Cagliari, M. S., Granett, B. R., Guzzo, L., Bolzonella, M., Pozzetti, L., Tutusaus, I., Camera, S., Amara, A., Auricchio, N., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Cropper, M., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Ferriol, S., Fourmanoit, N., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kummel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Massey, R., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Niemi, S. M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Rhodes, J., Rix, H. -W., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Scodeggio, M., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Wang, Y., Welikala, N., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Baldi, M., Farinelli, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Polenta, G., Romelli, E., Vassallo, T., and Humphrey, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The ESA Euclid mission will produce photometric galaxy samples over 15000 square degrees of the sky that will be rich for clustering and weak lensing statistics. The accuracy of the cosmological constraints derived from these measurements will depend on the knowledge of the underlying redshift distributions based on photometric redshift calibrations. A new approach is proposed to use the stacked spectra from Euclid slitless spectroscopy to augment broad-band photometric information to constrain the redshift distribution with spectral energy distribution fitting. The high spectral resolution available in the stacked spectra complements the photometry and helps to break the colour-redshift degeneracy and constrain the redshift distribution of galaxy samples. We modelled the stacked spectra as a linear mixture of spectral templates. The mixture may be inverted to infer the underlying redshift distribution using constrained regression algorithms. We demonstrate the method on simulated Vera C. Rubin Observatory and Euclid mock survey data sets based on the Euclid Flagship mock galaxy catalogue. We assess the accuracy of the reconstruction by considering the inference of the baryon acoustic scale from angular two-point correlation function measurements. We selected mock photometric galaxy samples at redshift z>1 using the self-organising map algorithm. Considering the idealised case without dust attenuation, we find that the redshift distributions of these samples can be recovered with 0.5% accuracy on the baryon acoustic scale. The estimates are not significantly degraded by the spectroscopic measurement noise due to the large sample size. However, the error degrades to 2% when the dust attenuation model is left free. We find that the colour degeneracies introduced by attenuation limit the accuracy considering the wavelength coverage of Euclid near-infrared spectroscopy., Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures. Accepted by A&A (Jan. 18)
Published: 2021
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27. Euclid preparation: I. The Euclid Wide Survey

Author: Scaramella, R., Amiaux, J., Mellier, Y., Burigana, C., Carvalho, C. S., Cuillandre, J. -C., Da Silva, A., Derosa, A., Dinis, J., Maiorano, E., Maris, M., Tereno, I., Laureijs, R., Boenke, T., Buenadicha, G., Dupac, X., Venancio, L. M. Gaspar, Gómez-Álvarez, P., Hoar, J., Alvarez, J. Lorenzo, Racca, G. D., Saavedra-Criado, G., Schwartz, J., Vavrek, R., Schirmer, M., Aussel, H., Azzollini, R., Cardone, V. F., Cropper, M., Ealet, A., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Granett, B. R., Guzzo, L., Hoekstra, H., Jahnke, K., Kitching, T., Meneghetti, M., Miller, L., Nakajima, R., Niemi, S. M., Pasian, F., Percival, W. J., Sauvage, M., Scodeggio, M., Wachter, S., Zacchei, A., Aghanim, N., Amara, A., Auphan, T., Auricchio, N., Awan, S., Balestra, A., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brau-Nogue, S., Brescia, M., Candini, G. P., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carlberg, R. G., Carretero, J., Casas, R., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Costille, A., Courbin, F., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dusini, S., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Fourmanoit, N., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Hudelot, P., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Melchior, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Mohr, J. J., Moresco, M., Morin, B., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nichol, R. C., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Peacock, J., Pedersen, K., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Rhodes, J., Rix, H. -W., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Skottfelt, J., Stanco, L., Starck, J. L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Trifoglio, M., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Kleijn, G. A. Verdoes, Wang, Y., Welikala, N., Weller, J., Wetzstein, M., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Andreon, S., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Boucaud, A., Camera, S., Fabbian, G., Farinelli, R., Graciá-Carpio, J., Maino, D., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Neissner, C., Polenta, G., Renzi, A., Romelli, E., Rosset, C., Sureau, F., Tenti, M., Vassallo, T., Zucca, E., Baccigalupi, C., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Battaglia, P., Biviano, A., Borgani, S., Bozzo, E., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Casas, S., Castignani, G., Colodro-Conde, C., Coupon, J., Courtois, H. M., Cuby, J., de la Torre, S., Desai, S., Di Ferdinando, D., Dole, H., Fabricius, M., Farina, M., Ferreira, P. G., Finelli, F., Flose-Reimberg, P., Fotopoulou, S., Galeotta, S., Ganga, K., Gozaliasl, G., Hook, I. M., Keihanen, E., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Liebing, P., Lindholm, V., Mainetti, G., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Maturi, M., McCracken, H. J., Metcalf, R. B., Morgante, G., Nightingale, J., Nucita, A., Patrizii, L., Potter, D., Riccio, G., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Schewtschenko, J. A., Schultheis, M., Scottez, V., Teyssier, R., Tutusaus, I., Valiviita, J., Viel, M., Vriend, W., and Whittaker, L.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Euclid is an ESA mission designed to constrain the properties of dark energy and gravity via weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. It will carry out a wide area imaging and spectroscopy survey (EWS) in visible and near-infrared, covering roughly 15,000 square degrees of extragalactic sky on six years. The wide-field telescope and instruments are optimized for pristine PSF and reduced straylight, producing very crisp images. This paper presents the building of the Euclid reference survey: the sequence of pointings of EWS, Deep fields, Auxiliary fields for calibrations, and spacecraft movements followed by Euclid as it operates in a step-and-stare mode from its orbit around the Lagrange point L2. Each EWS pointing has four dithered frames; we simulate the dither pattern at pixel level to analyse the effective coverage. We use up-to-date models for the sky background to define the Euclid region-of-interest (RoI). The building of the reference survey is highly constrained from calibration cadences, spacecraft constraints and background levels; synergies with ground-based coverage are also considered. Via purposely-built software optimized to prioritize best sky areas, produce a compact coverage, and ensure thermal stability, we generate a schedule for the Auxiliary and Deep fields observations and schedule the RoI with EWS transit observations. The resulting reference survey RSD_2021A fulfills all constraints and is a good proxy for the final solution. Its wide survey covers 14,500 square degrees. The limiting AB magnitudes ($5\sigma$ point-like source) achieved in its footprint are estimated to be 26.2 (visible) and 24.5 (near-infrared); for spectroscopy, the H$_\alpha$ line flux limit is $2\times 10^{-16}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ at 1600 nm; and for diffuse emission the surface brightness limits are 29.8 (visible) and 28.4 (near-infrared) mag arcsec$^{-2}$., Comment: 43 pages, 51 figures, submitted to A&A
Published: 2021
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28. Euclid Preparation: XIV. The Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (C3R2) Survey: Data Release 3

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Stanford, S. A., Masters, D., Darvish, B., Stern, D., Cohen, J. G., Capak, P., Hernitschek, N., Davidzon, I., Rhodes, J., Sanders, D. B., Mobasher, B., Castander, F. J., Paltani, S., Aghanim, N., Amara, A., Auricchio, N., Balestra, A., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brinchmann, J., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, R., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Conselice, C. J., Corcione, L., Costille, A., Cropper, M., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Dusini, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Giocoli, C., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kubik, B., Kummel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Massey, R., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moscardini, L., Niemi, S. M., Padilla, C., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Kleijn, G. A. Verdoes, Wang, Y., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Brescia, M., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Kermiche, S., Kohley, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Moresco, M., Morin, B., Munari, E., Polenta, G., Sureau, F., Crespí, P. Tallada, Vassallo, T., Zacchei, A., Andreon, S., Aussel, H., Baccigalupi, C., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Biviano, A., Borsato, E., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Camera, S., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Casas, S., Castignani, G., Colodro-Conde, C., Coupon, J., Courtois, H. M., Cuby, J. -G., Da Silva, A., de la Torre, S., Di Ferdinando, D., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Fabricius, M., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferreira, P. G., Finelli, F., Flose-Reimberg, P., Fotopoulou, S., Galeotta, S., Ganga, K., Gillard, W., Gozaliasl, G., Graciá-Carpio, J., Keihanen, E., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Lindholm, V., Mainetti, G., Maino, D., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Maturi, M., Maurogordato, S., Metcalf, R. B., Nakajima, R., Neissner, C., Nightingale, J. W., Nucita, A. A., Patrizii, L., Potter, D., Renzi, A., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Sanchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Schirmer, M., Schultheis, M., Scottez, V., Stanco, L., Tenti, M., Teyssier, R., Torradeflot, F., Valiviita, J., Viel, M., Whittaker, L., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (C3R2) survey is obtaining spectroscopic redshifts in order to map the relation between galaxy color and redshift to a depth of i ~ 24.5 (AB). The primary goal is to enable sufficiently accurate photometric redshifts for Stage IV dark energy projects, particularly Euclid and the Roman Space Telescope, which are designed to constrain cosmological parameters through weak lensing. We present 676 new high-confidence spectroscopic redshifts obtained by the C3R2 survey in the 2017B-2019B semesters using the DEIMOS, LRIS, and MOSFIRE multi-object spectrographs on the Keck telescopes. Combined with the 4454 redshifts previously published by this project, the C3R2 survey has now obtained and published 5130 high-quality galaxy spectra and redshifts. If we restrict consideration to only the 0.2 < z(phot) < 2.6 range of interest for the Euclid cosmological goals, then with the current data release C3R2 has increased the spectroscopic redshift coverage of the Euclid color space from 51% (as reported by Masters et al. 2015) to the current 91%. Once completed and combined with extensive data collected by other spectroscopic surveys, C3R2 should provide the spectroscopic calibration set needed to enable photometric redshifts to meet the cosmology requirements for Euclid, and make significant headway toward solving the problem for Roman., Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. Survey website with links to the C3R2 redshift catalog and the spectroscopic data hosted by the Keck Observatory Archive can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/c3r2-survey/home
Published: 2021
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29. $Euclid$ preparation: XV. Forecasting cosmological constraints for the $Euclid$ and CMB joint analysis

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Ilić, S., Aghanim, N., Baccigalupi, C., Bermejo-Climent, J. R., Fabbian, G., Legrand, L., Paoletti, D., Ballardini, M., Archidiacono, M., Douspis, M., Finelli, F., Ganga, K., Hernández-Monteagudo, C., Lattanzi, M., Marinucci, D., Migliaccio, M., Carbone, C., Casas, S., Martinelli, M., Tutusaus, I., Natoli, P., Ntelis, P., Pagano, L., Wenzl, L., Gruppuso, A., Kitching, T., Langer, M., Mauri, N., Patrizii, L., Renzi, A., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tenti, M., Vielzeuf, P., Lacasa, F., Polenta, G., Yankelevich, V., Blanchard, A., Sakr, Z., Pourtsidou, A., Camera, S., Cardone, V. F., Kilbinger, M., Kunz, M., Markovic, K., Pettorino, V., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Amara, A., Auricchio, N., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Capobianco, V., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Costille, A., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farrens, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kümmel, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Morin, B., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Niemi, S. M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Rhodes, J., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Starck, J. L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Kleijn, G. A. Verdoes, Wang, Y., Welikala, N., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Rosset, C., Sureau, F., Vassallo, T., Zacchei, A., Andreon, S., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Biviano, A., Borgani, S., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castignani, G., Colodro-Conde, C., Coupon, J., Courtois, H. M., Cuby, J., de la Torre, S., Di Ferdinando, D., Dole, H., Farina, M., Ferreira, P. G., Flose-Reimberg, P., Galeotta, S., Gozaliasl, G., Graciá-Carpio, J., Keihanen, E., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Lindholm, V., Mainetti, G., Maino, D., Martinet, N., Maturi, M., Metcalf, R. B., Morgante, G., Neissner, C., Nightingale, J., Nucita, A. A., Potter, D., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Schirmer, M., Schultheis, M., Scottez, V., Teyssier, R., Tramacere, A., Valiviita, J., Viel, M., Whittaker, L., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The combination and cross-correlation of the upcoming $Euclid$ data with cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements is a source of great expectation since it will provide the largest lever arm of epochs, ranging from recombination to structure formation across the entire past light cone. In this work, we present forecasts for the joint analysis of $Euclid$ and CMB data on the cosmological parameters of the standard cosmological model and some of its extensions. This work expands and complements the recently published forecasts based on $Euclid$-specific probes, namely galaxy clustering, weak lensing, and their cross-correlation. With some assumptions on the specifications of current and future CMB experiments, the predicted constraints are obtained from both a standard Fisher formalism and a posterior-fitting approach based on actual CMB data. Compared to a $Euclid$-only analysis, the addition of CMB data leads to a substantial impact on constraints for all cosmological parameters of the standard $\Lambda$-cold-dark-matter model, with improvements reaching up to a factor of ten. For the parameters of extended models, which include a redshift-dependent dark energy equation of state, non-zero curvature, and a phenomenological modification of gravity, improvements can be of the order of two to three, reaching higher than ten in some cases. The results highlight the crucial importance for cosmological constraints of the combination and cross-correlation of $Euclid$ probes with CMB data., Comment: 20 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, 1 appendix; updated to match version accepted by journal
Published: 2021
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30. Euclid: Estimation of the impact of correlated readout noise for flux measurements with the Euclid NISP instrument

Author: Munoz, A. Jimenez, Macias-Perez, J., Secroun, A., Gillard, W., Kubik, B., Auricchio, N., Balestra, A., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, R., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Costille, A., Cropper, M., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kummel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Massey, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moscardini, L., Niemi, S. M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sauvage, M., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. A. Verdoes, Wang, Y., Weller, J., Wetzstein, M., Zamorani, G., and Zoubian, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The Euclid satellite, to be launched by ESA in 2022, will be a major instrument for cosmology for the next decades. \Euclid\ is composed of two instruments: the Visible (VIS) instrument and the Near Infrared Spectromete and Photometer (NISP). In this work we estimate the implications of correlated readout noise in the NISP detectors for the final in-flight flux measurements. Considering the multiple accumulated (MACC) readout mode, for which the UTR (Up The Ramp) exposure frames are averaged in groups, we derive an analytical expression for the noise covariance matrix between groups in the presence of correlated noise. We also characterize the correlated readout noise properties in the NISP engineering grade detectors using long dark integrations. For this purpose, we assume a $(1/f)^{\, \alpha}$-like noise model and fit the model parameters to the data, obtaining typical values of $\sigma = 19.7^{+1.1}_{-0.8}$ e$^{-} \rm{Hz}^{-0.5}$, $f_{\rm{knee}} = (5.2^{+1.8}_{-1.3}) \times 10^{-3} \, \rm{Hz}$ and $\alpha = 1.24 ^{+0.26}_{-0.21}$. Furthermore, via realistic simulations and using a maximum likelihood flux estimator we derive the bias between the input flux and the recovered one. We find that using our analytical expression for the covariance matrix of the correlated readout noise we diminish this bias by up to a factor of four with respect to the white noise approximation for the covariance matrix. Finally, we conclude that the final bias on the in-flight NISP flux measurements should still be negligible even in the white noise approximation, which is taken as a baseline for the Euclid\on-board processing
Published: 2021
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31. Euclid preparation: XII. Optimizing the photometric sample of the Euclid survey for galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing analyses

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Pocino, A., Tutusaus, I., Castander, F. J., Fosalba, P., Crocce, M., Porredon, A., Camera, S., Cardone, V., Casas, S., Kitching, T., Lacasa, F., Martinelli, M., Pourtsidou, A., Sakr, Z., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baccigalupi, C., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Biviano, A., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Boucaud, A., Bozzo, E., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Capobianco, V., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castellano, M., Castignani, G., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Costille, A., Coupon, J., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Cuby, J. -G., Da Silva, A., de la Torre, S., Di Ferdinando, D., Dubath, F., Duncan, C., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farrens, S., Ferreira, P. G., Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Fotopoulou, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gozaliasl, G., Graciá-Carpio, J., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Jahnke, K., Keihanen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Meneghetti, M., Metcalf, R. Benton, Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Morin, B., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Neissner, C., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S., Nightingale, J., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Patrizii, L., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Potter, D., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Scottez, V., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Sureau, F., Taylor, A. N., Tenti, M., Tereno, I., Teyssier, R., Toledo-Moreo, R., Tramacere, A., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Valiviita, J., Vassallo, T., Viel, M., Wang, Y., Welikala, N., Whittaker, L., Zacchei, A., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The accuracy of photometric redshifts (photo-zs) particularly affects the results of the analyses of galaxy clustering with photometrically-selected galaxies (GCph) and weak lensing. In the next decade, space missions like Euclid will collect photometric measurements for millions of galaxies. These data should be complemented with upcoming ground-based observations to derive precise and accurate photo-zs. In this paper, we explore how the tomographic redshift binning and depth of ground-based observations will affect the cosmological constraints expected from Euclid. We focus on GCph and extend the study to include galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL). We add a layer of complexity to the analysis by simulating several realistic photo-z distributions based on the Euclid Consortium Flagship simulation and using a machine learning photo-z algorithm. We use the Fisher matrix formalism and these galaxy samples to study the cosmological constraining power as a function of redshift binning, survey depth, and photo-z accuracy. We find that bins with equal width in redshift provide a higher Figure of Merit (FoM) than equipopulated bins and that increasing the number of redshift bins from 10 to 13 improves the FoM by 35% and 15% for GCph and its combination with GGL, respectively. For GCph, an increase of the survey depth provides a higher FoM. But the addition of faint galaxies beyond the limit of the spectroscopic training data decreases the FoM due to the spurious photo-zs. When combining both probes, the number density of the sample, which is set by the survey depth, is the main factor driving the variations in the FoM. We conclude that there is more information that can be extracted beyond the nominal 10 tomographic redshift bins of Euclid and that we should be cautious when adding faint galaxies into our sample, since they can degrade the cosmological constraints., Comment: 21 pages, 13 figures. Abstract abridged
Published: 2021
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32. Euclid: Effect of sample covariance on the number counts of galaxy clusters

Author: Fumagalli, A., Saro, A., Borgani, S., Castro, T., Costanzi, M., Monaco, P., Munari, E., Sefusatti, E., Amara, A., Auricchio, N., Balestra, A., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brinchmann, J., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Conselice, C. J., Corcione, L., Costille, A., Cropper, M., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Fosalba, P., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Giocoli, C., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Jahnke, K., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Massey, R., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moscardini, L., Niemi, S. M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rhodes, J., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Brescia, M., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Mei, S., Moresco, M., and Vassallo, T.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Aims. We investigate the contribution of shot-noise and sample variance to the uncertainty of cosmological parameter constraints inferred from cluster number counts in the context of the Euclid survey. Methods. By analysing 1000 Euclid-like light-cones, produced with the PINOCCHIO approximate method, we validate the analytical model of Hu & Kravtsov 2003 for the covariance matrix, which takes into account both sources of statistical error. Then, we use such covariance to define the likelihood function that better extracts cosmological information from cluster number counts at the level of precision that will be reached by the future Euclid photometric catalogs of galaxy clusters. We also study the impact of the cosmology dependence of the covariance matrix on the parameter constraints. Results. The analytical covariance matrix reproduces the variance measured from simulations within the 10 per cent level; such difference has no sizeable effect on the error of cosmological parameter constraints at this level of statistics. Also, we find that the Gaussian likelihood with cosmology-dependent covariance is the only model that provides an unbiased inference of cosmological parameters without underestimating the errors., Comment: 15 pages, 16 figures
Published: 2021
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33. Euclid preparation: VI. Verifying the Performance of Cosmic Shear Experiments

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Paykari, P., Kitching, T. D., Hoekstra, H., Azzollini, R., Cardone, V. F., Cropper, M., Duncan, C. A. J., Kannawadi, A., Miller, L., Aussel, H., Conti, I. F., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Biviano, A., Bonino, D., Borsato, E., Bozzo, E., Branchini, E., Brau-Nogue, S., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Burigana, C., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Charles, Y., Cledassou, R., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Coupon, J., Courtois, H. M., Da Silva, A., Dupac, X., Fabbian, G., Farrens, S., Ferreira, P. G., Fosalba, P., Fourmanoit, N., Frailis, M., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B. R., Giocoli, C., Gracia-Carpio, J., Grupp, F., Hormuth, F., Ilic, S., Israel, H., Jahnke, K., Keihanen, E., Kermiche, S., Kilbinger, M., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Kubik, B., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lacasa, F., Laureijs, R., Mignant, D. Le, Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maciaszek, T., Maiorano, E., Marggraf, O., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Massey, F. Marulli R., Mauri, N., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Metcalf, R. B., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Neissner, C., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S., Nutma, T., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Pourtsidou, A., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Scottez, V., Secroun, A., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Starck, J. -L., Sureau, F., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A., Tenti, M., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vannier, M., Vassallo, T., Zoubian, J., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Our aim is to quantify the impact of systematic effects on the inference of cosmological parameters from cosmic shear. We present an end-to-end approach that introduces sources of bias in a modelled weak lensing survey on a galaxy-by-galaxy level. Residual biases are propagated through a pipeline from galaxy properties (one end) through to cosmic shear power spectra and cosmological parameter estimates (the other end), to quantify how imperfect knowledge of the pipeline changes the maximum likelihood values of dark energy parameters. We quantify the impact of an imperfect correction for charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) and modelling uncertainties of the point spread function (PSF) for Euclid, and find that the biases introduced can be corrected to acceptable levels., Comment: 18 pages. Submitted to A&A. Comments Welcome
Published: 2019
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34. Euclid preparation: V. Predicted yield of redshift 7<z<9 quasars from the wide survey

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Barnett, R., Warren, S. J., Mortlock, D. J., Cuby, J. -G., Conselice, C., Hewett, P. C., Willott, C. J., Auricchio, N., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bellagamba, F., Bender, R., Biviano, A., Bonino, D., Bozzo, E., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Burigana, C., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Carvalho, C. S., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Clédassou, R., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Coupon, J., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Duncan, C. A. J., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farrens, S., Fosalba, P., Fotopoulou, S., Fourmanoit, N., Frailis, M., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B. R., Graciá-Carpio, J., Grupp, F., Hoekstra, H., Hormuth, F., Israel, H., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kilbinger, M., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kubik, B., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Mauri, N., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Metcalf, R. B., Metge, J. J., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Neissner, C., Niemi, S. M., Nutma, T., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Paykari, P., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Rix, H. -W., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Scottez, V., Secroun, A., Serrano, S., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Sureau, F., Tallada-Crespí, P., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Tenti, M., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Wang, Y., Zacchei, A., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We provide predictions of the yield of $78$ may be selected from Euclid $OYJH$ photometry alone, but selection over the redshift interval $77.5$ should be found in the DR1 data release, expected in 2024. It will be possible to determine the bright-end slope of the QLF, $7
Published: 2019
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35. Enhancing LSST Science with Euclid Synergy

Author: Capak, P., Cuillandre, J-C., Bernardeau, F., Castander, F., Bowler, R., Chang, C., Grillmair, C., Gris, P., Eifler, T., Hirata, C., Hook, I., Jain, B., Kuijken, K., Lochner, M., Oesch, P., Paltani, S., Rhodes, J., Robertson, B., Rubin, D., Scaramella, R., Scarlata, C., Scolnic, D., Silverman, J., Wachter, S., Wang, Y., and Group, The Tri-Agency Working
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: This white paper is the result of the Tri-Agency Working Group (TAG) appointed to develop synergies between missions and is intended to clarify what LSST observations are needed in order to maximally enhance the combined science output of LSST and Euclid. To facilitate LSST planning we provide a range of possible LSST surveys with clear metrics based on the improvement in the Dark Energy figure of merit (FOM). To provide a quantifiable metric we present five survey options using only between 0.3 and 3.8% of the LSST 10 year survey. We also provide information so that the LSST DDF cadence can possibly be matched to those of \emph{Euclid} in common deep fields, SXDS, COSMOS, CDFS, and a proposed new LSST deep field (near the Akari Deep Field South). Co-coordination of observations from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and Euclid will lead to a significant number of synergies. The combination of optical multi-band imaging from LSST with high resolution optical and near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy from \emph{Euclid} will not only improve constraints on Dark Energy, but provide a wealth of science on the Milky Way, local group, local large scale structure, and even on first galaxies during the epoch of reionization. A detailed paper has been published on the Dark Energy science case (Rhodes et al.) by a joint LSST/Euclid working group as well as a white paper describing LSST/Euclid/WFIRST synergies (Jain et al.), and we will briefly describe other science cases here. A companion white paper argues the general science case for an extension of the LSST footprint to the north at airmass < 1.8, and we support the white papers for southern extensions of the LSST survey., Comment: LSST Survey White Paper Submitted in Dec 2018
Published: 2019

36. Euclid: Superluminous supernovae in the Deep Survey

Author: Inserra, C., Nichol, R. C., Scovacricchi, D., Amiaux, J., Brescia, M., Burigana, C., Cappellaro, E., Carvalho, C. S., Cavuoti, S., Conforti, V., Cuillandre, J. -C., da Silva, A., De Rosa, A., Della Valle, M., Dinis, J., Franceschi, E., Hook, I., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Kitching, T., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lloro, I., Longo, G., Maiorano, E., Maris, M., Rhodes, J. D., Scaramella, R., Smartt, S. J., Sullivan, M., Tao, C., Toledo-Moreo, R., Tereno, I., Trifoglio, M., and Valenziano, L.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: In the last decade, astronomers have found a new type of supernova called `superluminous supernovae' (SLSNe) due to their high peak luminosity and long light-curves. These hydrogen-free explosions (SLSNe-I) can be seen to z~4 and therefore, offer the possibility of probing the distant Universe. We aim to investigate the possibility of detecting SLSNe-I using ESA's Euclid satellite, scheduled for launch in 2020. In particular, we study the Euclid Deep Survey (EDS) which will provide a unique combination of area, depth and cadence over the mission. We estimated the redshift distribution of Euclid SLSNe-I using the latest information on their rates and spectral energy distribution, as well as known Euclid instrument and survey parameters, including the cadence and depth of the EDS. We also applied a standardization method to the peak magnitudes to create a simulated Hubble diagram to explore possible cosmological constraints. We show that Euclid should detect approximately 140 high-quality SLSNe-I to z ~ 3.5 over the first five years of the mission (with an additional 70 if we lower our photometric classification criteria). This sample could revolutionize the study of SLSNe-I at z>1 and open up their use as probes of star-formation rates, galaxy populations, the interstellar and intergalactic medium. In addition, a sample of such SLSNe-I could improve constraints on a time-dependent dark energy equation-of-state, namely w(a), when combined with local SLSNe-I and the expected SN Ia sample from the Dark Energy Survey. We show that Euclid will observe hundreds of SLSNe-I for free. These luminous transients will be in the Euclid data-stream and we should prepare now to identify them as they offer a new probe of the high-redshift Universe for both astrophysics and cosmology., Comment: Paper accepted by A&A, abstract abridged. This paper is published on behalf of the Euclid Consortium
Published: 2017
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37. Higher order moments of lensing convergence - I. Estimate from simulations

Author: Vicinanza, M., Cardone, V. F., Maoli, R., Scaramella, R., and Er, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Large area lensing surveys are expected to make it possible to use cosmic shear tomography as a tool to severely constrain cosmological parameters. To this end, one typically relies on second order statistics such as the two - point correlation fucntion and its Fourier counterpart, the power spectrum. Moving a step forward, we wonder whether and to which extent higher order stastistics can improve the lensing Figure of Merit (FoM). In this first paper of a series, we investigate how second, third and fourth order lensing convergence moments can be measured and use as probe of the underlying cosmological model. We use simulated data and investigate the impact on moments estimate of the map reconstruction procedure, the cosmic variance, and the intrinsic ellipticity noise. We demonstrate that, under realistic assumptions, it is indeed possible to use higher order moments as a further lensing probe., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables, submitted to MNRAS
Published: 2016

38. Euclid Space Mission: building the sky survey

Author: Tereno, I., Carvalho, C. S., Dinis, J., Scaramella, R., Amiaux, J., Burigana, C., Cuillandre, J. C., da Silva, A., Derosa, A., Maiorano, E., Maris, M., Oliveira, D., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Gomez-Alvarez, P., Meneghetti, M., Wachter, S., and Collaboration, the Euclid
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Euclid space mission proposes to survey 15000 square degrees of the extragalactic sky during 6 years, with a step-and-stare technique. The scheduling of observation sequences is driven by the primary scientific objectives, spacecraft constraints, calibration requirements and physical properties of the sky. We present the current reference implementation of the Euclid survey and on-going work on survey optimization., Comment: to appear in Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 306, "Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology", A.F. Heavens, J.-L. Starck & A. Krone-Martins, eds
Published: 2015
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39. Euclid space mission: a cosmological challenge for the next 15 years

Author: Scaramella, R., Mellier, Y., Amiaux, J., Burigana, C., Carvalho, C. S., Cuillandre, J. C., da Silva, A., Dinis, J., Derosa, A., Maiorano, E., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Maris, M., Meneghetti, M., Tereno, I., Wachter, S., Amendola, L., Cropper, M., Cardone, V., Massey, R., Niemi, S., Hoekstra, H., Kitching, T., Miller, L., Schrabback, T., Semboloni, E., Taylor, A., Viola, M., Maciaszek, T., Ealet, A., Guzzo, L., Jahnke, K., Percival, W., Pasian, F., Sauvage, M., and Collaboration, the Euclid
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Euclid is the next ESA mission devoted to cosmology. It aims at observing most of the extragalactic sky, studying both gravitational lensing and clustering over $\sim$15,000 square degrees. The mission is expected to be launched in year 2020 and to last six years. The sheer amount of data of different kinds, the variety of (un)known systematic effects and the complexity of measures require efforts both in sophisticated simulations and techniques of data analysis. We review the mission main characteristics, some aspects of the the survey and highlight some of the areas of interest to this meeting, Comment: to appear in Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 306, 2014, "Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology", A.F. Heavens, J.-L. Starck & A. Krone-Martins, eds
Published: 2015
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40. LOFAR HBA observations of the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN)

Author: Bondi, M., primary, Scaramella, R., additional, Zamorani, G., additional, Ciliegi, P., additional, Vitello, F., additional, Arias, M., additional, Best, P. N., additional, Bonato, M., additional, Botteon, A., additional, Brienza, M., additional, Brunetti, G., additional, Hardcastle, M. J., additional, Magliocchetti, M., additional, Massaro, F., additional, Morabito, L. K, additional, Pentericci, L., additional, Prandoni, I., additional, Röttgering, H. J. A., additional, Shimwell, T. W., additional, Tasse, C., additional, van Weeren, R. J., additional, and White, G. J., additional
Published: 2024
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41. Mass - concentration relation and weak lensing peak counts

Author: Cardone, V. F., Camera, S., Sereno, M., Covone, G., Maoli, R., and Scaramella, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The statistics of peaks in weak lensing convergence maps is a promising tool to investigate both the properties of dark matter haloes and constrain the cosmological parameters. We study how the number of detectable peaks and its scaling with redshift depend upon the cluster dark matter halo profiles and use peak statistics to constrain the parameters of the mass - concentration (MC) relation. We investigate which constraints the Euclid mission can set on the MC coefficients also taking into account degeneracies with the cosmological parameters. To this end, we first estimate the number of peaks and its redshift distribution for different MC relations. We find that the steeper the mass dependence and the larger the normalisation, the higher is the number of detectable clusters, with the total number of peaks changing up to $40\%$ depending on the MC relation. We then perform a Fisher matrix forecast of the errors on the MC relation parameters as well as cosmological parameters. We find that peak number counts detected by Euclid can determine the normalization $A_v$, the mass $B_v$ and redshift $C_v$ slopes and intrinsic scatter $\sigma_v$ of the MC relation to an unprecedented accuracy being $\sigma(A_v)/A_v = 1\%$, $\sigma(B_v)/B_v = 4\%$, $\sigma(C_v)/C_v = 9\%$, $\sigma(\sigma_v)/\sigma_v = 1\%$ if all cosmological parameters are assumed to be known. Should we relax this severe assumption, constraints are degraded, but remarkably good results can be restored setting only some of the parameters or combining peak counts with Planck data. This precision can give insight on competing scenarios of structure formation and evolution and on the role of baryons in cluster assembling. Alternatively, for a fixed MC relation, future peaks counts can perform as well as current BAO and SNeIa when combined with Planck., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2014
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42. Euclid preparation. The Near-IR Background Dipole Experiment with Euclid

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Kashlinsky, A., Arendt, R. G., Ashby, M. L. N., Atrio-Barandela, F., Scaramella, R., Strauss, M. A., Altieri, B., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Jahnke, K., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kubik, B., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Schirmer, M., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Seiffert, M., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Surace, C., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Colodro-Conde, C., Di Ferdinando, D., Fabbian, G., Farinelli, R., Graciá-Carpio, J., Mainetti, G., Martinelli, M., Mauri, N., Neissner, C., Sakr, Z., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Anselmi, S., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Blanchard, A., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. S., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castignani, G., Castro, T., {n}as-Herrera, G. Ca\, Chambers, K. C., Contarini, S., Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Desprez, G., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Gabarra, L., García-Bellido, J., Gautard, V., Gaztanaga, E., George, K., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Gregorio, A., Hall, A., Hildebrandt, H., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Loureiro, A., Magliocchetti, M., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Migliaccio, M., Monaco, P., Morgante, G., Nadathur, S., Walton, Nicholas A., Patrizii, L., Popa, V., Potter, D., Pöntinen, M., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Schneider, A., Sefusatti, E., Sereno, M., Steinwagner, J., Testera, G., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., Verza, G., Hasinger, G., Euclid Collaboration, Kashlinsky, A., Arendt, R. G., Ashby, M. L. N., Atrio-Barandela, F., Scaramella, R., Strauss, M. A., Altieri, B., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Jahnke, K., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kubik, B., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Schirmer, M., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Seiffert, M., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Surace, C., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Tutusaus, I., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Veropalumbo, A., Wang, Y., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Zucca, E., Biviano, A., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Colodro-Conde, C., Di Ferdinando, D., Fabbian, G., Farinelli, R., Graciá-Carpio, J., Mainetti, G., Martinelli, M., Mauri, N., Neissner, C., Sakr, Z., Scottez, V., Tenti, M., Viel, M., Wiesmann, M., Akrami, Y., Allevato, V., Anselmi, S., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Blanchard, A., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. S., Bruton, S., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Castignani, G., Castro, T., {n}as-Herrera, G. Ca\, Chambers, K. C., Contarini, S., Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Desprez, G., Di Domizio, S., Dole, H., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Vigo, J. A. Escartin, Ferrero, I., Finelli, F., Gabarra, L., García-Bellido, J., Gautard, V., Gaztanaga, E., George, K., Giacomini, F., Gozaliasl, G., Gregorio, A., Hall, A., Hildebrandt, H., Kajava, J. J. E., Kansal, V., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Legrand, L., Loureiro, A., Magliocchetti, M., Mannucci, F., Maoli, R., Martins, C. J. A. P., Matthew, S., Maurin, L., Metcalf, R. B., Migliaccio, M., Monaco, P., Morgante, G., Nadathur, S., Walton, Nicholas A., Patrizii, L., Popa, V., Potter, D., Pöntinen, M., Rocci, P. -F., Sahlén, M., Schneider, A., Sefusatti, E., Sereno, M., Steinwagner, J., Testera, G., Teyssier, R., Toft, S., Tosi, S., Troja, A., Tucci, M., Valiviita, J., Vergani, D., Verza, G., and Hasinger, G.
Abstract: Verifying the fully kinematic nature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) dipole is of fundamental importance in cosmology. In the standard cosmological model with the Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric from the inflationary expansion the CMB dipole should be entirely kinematic. Any non-kinematic CMB dipole component would thus reflect the preinflationary structure of spacetime probing the extent of the FLRW applicability. Cosmic backgrounds from galaxies after the matter-radiation decoupling, should have kinematic dipole component identical in velocity with the CMB kinematic dipole. Comparing the two can lead to isolating the CMB non-kinematic dipole. It was recently proposed that such measurement can be done using the near-IR cosmic infrared background (CIB) measured with the currently operating Euclid telescope, and later with Roman. The proposed method reconstructs the resolved CIB, the Integrated Galaxy Light (IGL), from Euclid's Wide Survey and probes its dipole, with a kinematic component amplified over that of the CMB by the Compton-Getting effect. The amplification coupled with the extensive galaxy samples forming the IGL would determine the CIB dipole with an overwhelming signal/noise, isolating its direction to sub-degree accuracy. We develop details of the method for Euclid's Wide Survey in 4 bands spanning 0.6 to 2 mic. We isolate the systematic and other uncertainties and present methodologies to minimize them, after confining the sample to the magnitude range with negligible IGL/CIB dipole from galaxy clustering. These include the required star-galaxy separation, accounting for the extinction correction dipole using the method newly developed here achieving total separation, accounting for the Earth's orbital motion and other systematic effects. (Abridged), Comment: Euclid Key Project paper, A&A submitted
Published: 2024

43. The power spectrum of systematics in cosmic shear tomography and the bias on cosmological parameters

Author: Cardone, V. F., Martinelli, M., Calabrese, E., Galli, S., Huang, Z., Maoli, R., Melchiorri, A., and Scaramella, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Cosmic shear tomography has emerged as one of the most promising tools to both investigate the nature of dark energy and discriminate between General Relativity and modified gravity theories. In order to successfully achieve these goals, systematics in shear measurements have to be taken into account; their impact on the weak lensing power spectrum has to be carefully investigated in order to estimate the bias induced on the inferred cosmological parameters. To this end, we develop here an efficient tool to compute the power spectrum of systematics by propagating, in a realistic way, shear measurement, source properties and survey setup uncertainties. Starting from analytical results for unweighted moments and general assumptions on the relation between measured and actual shear, we derive analytical expressions for the multiplicative and additive bias, showing how these terms depend not only on the shape measurement errors, but also on the properties of the source galaxies (namely, size, magnitude and spectral energy distribution). We are then able to compute the amplitude of the systematics power spectrum and its scaling with redshift, while we propose a multigaussian expansion to model in a non-parametric way its angular scale dependence. Our method allows to self-consistently propagate the systematics uncertainties to the finally observed shear power spectrum, thus allowing us to quantify the departures from the actual spectrum. We show that even a modest level of systematics can induce non-negligible deviations, thus leading to a significant bias on the recovered cosmological parameters., Comment: 19 pages, 5 tables, 4 figures
Published: 2013
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44. The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey final data release: a spectroscopic sample of 35016 galaxies and AGN out to z~6.7 selected with 17.5<=i_{AB}<=24.7

Author: Fevre, O. Le, Cassata, P., Cucciati, O., Garilli, B., Ilbert, O., Brun, V. Le, Maccagni, D., Moreau, C., Scodeggio, M., Tresse, L., Zamorani, G., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., de la Torre, S., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Guzzo, L., Iovino, A., Lemaux, B., McCracken, H. J., Marano, B., Marinoni, C., Mazure, A., Mellier, Y., Merighi, R., Merluzzi, P., Paltani, S., Pello, R., Pollo, A., Pozzetti, L., Scaramella, R., Vergani, D., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We describe the completed VIMOS VLT Deep Survey, and the final data release of 35016 galaxies and type-I AGN with measured spectroscopic redshifts up to redshift z~6.7, in areas 0.142 to 8.7 square degrees, and volumes from 0.5x10^6 to 2x10^7h^-3Mpc^3. We have selected samples of galaxies based solely on their i-band magnitude reaching i_{AB}=24.75. Spectra have been obtained with VIMOS on the ESO-VLT, integrating 0.75h, 4.5h and 18h for the Wide, Deep, and Ultra-Deep nested surveys. A total of 1263 galaxies have been re-observed independently within the VVDS, and from the VIPERS and MASSIV surveys. They are used to establish the redshift measurements reliability, to assess completeness, and to provide a weighting scheme taking into account the survey selection function. We describe the main properties of the VVDS samples, and the VVDS is compared to other spectroscopic surveys. In total we have obtained spectroscopic redshifts for 34594 galaxies, 422 type-I AGN, and 12430 Galactic stars. The survey has enabled to identify galaxies up to very high redshifts with 4669 redshifts in 1<=z_{spec}<=2, 561 in 2<=z_{spec}<=3 and 468 with z_{spec}>3, and specific populations like LAE have been identified out to z=6.62. We show that the VVDS occupies a unique place in the parameter space defined by area, depth, redshift coverage, and number of spectra. The VVDS provides a comprehensive survey of the distant universe, covering all epochs since z, or more than 12 Gyr of cosmic time, with a uniform selection, the largest such sample to date. A wealth of science results derived from the VVDS have shed new light on the evolution of galaxies and AGN, and their distribution in space, over this large cosmic time. A final public release of the complete VVDS spectroscopic redshift sample is available at http://cesam.lam.fr/vvds., Comment: Submitted 30 June 2013, Accepted 22 August 2013. Updated with published version
Published: 2013
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45. Euclid Mission: building of a Reference Survey

Author: Amiaux, J., Scaramella, R., Mellier, Y., Altieri, B., Burigana, C., Da Silva, A., Gomez, P., Hoar, J., Laureijs, R., Maiorano, E., Oliveira, D. Magalhaes, Renk, F., Criado, G. Saavedra, Tereno, I., Augueres, J. L., Brinchmann, J., Cropper, M., Duvet, L., Ealet, A., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Gondoin, P., Guzzo, L., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, R., Jahnke, K., Kitching, T., Meneghetti, M., Percival, W., Warren, S., and collaboration, the Euclid
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Euclid is an ESA Cosmic-Vision wide-field-space mission which is designed to explain the origin of the acceleration of Universe expansion. The mission will investigate at the same time two primary cosmological probes: Weak gravitational Lensing (WL) and Galaxy Clustering (in particular Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, BAO). The extreme precision requested on primary science objectives can only be achieved by observing a large number of galaxies distributed over the whole sky in order to probe the distribution of dark matter and galaxies at all scales. The extreme accuracy needed requires observation from space to limit all observational biases in the measurements. The definition of the Euclid survey, aiming at detecting billions of galaxies over 15 000 square degrees of the extragalactic sky, is a key parameter of the mission. It drives its scientific potential, its duration and the mass of the spacecraft. The construction of a Reference Survey derives from the high level science requirements for a Wide and a Deep survey. The definition of a main sequence of observations and the associated calibrations were indeed a major achievement of the Definition Phase. Implementation of this sequence demonstrated the feasibility of covering the requested area in less than 6 years while taking into account the overheads of space segment observing and maneuvering sequence. This reference mission will be used for sizing the spacecraft consumables needed for primary science. It will also set the framework for optimizing the time on the sky to fulfill the primary science and maximize the Euclid legacy.
Published: 2012
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46. Weak lensing peak count as a probe of f(R) theories

Author: Cardone, V. F., Camera, S., Mainini, R., Romano, A., Diaferio, A., Maoli, R., and Scaramella, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Weak gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters on faint higher redshift galaxies has been traditionally used to study the cluster mass distribution and as a tool to identify clusters as peaks in the shear maps. However, it becomes soon clear that peaks statistics can also be used as a way to constrain the underlying cosmological model due to its dependence on both the cosmic expansion rate and the growth rate of structures. This feature makes peak statistics particularly interesting from the point of view of discriminating between General Relativity and modified gravity. Here we consider a general class of $f(R)$ theories and compute the observable mass function based on the aperture mass statistics. We complement our theoretical analysis with a Fisher matrix forecast of the constraints that an Euclid\,-\,like survey can impose on the $f(R)$ model parameters. We show that peak statistics alone can in principle discriminate between General Relativity and $f(R)$ models and strongly constrain the $f(R)$ parameters that are sensitive to the non-linear growth of structure. However, further analysis is needed in order to include possible selection function in the peaks redshift determination., Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication on MNRAS on Jan 14, 2013; updated to match the published version
Published: 2012
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47. The Euclid mission: status after launch and early operations

Author: Coyle, Laura E., Matsuura, Shuji, Perrin, Marshall D., Laureijs, R., Vavrek, R., Racca, G. D., Kohley, R., Ferruit, P., Pettorino, V., Bönke, T., Calvi, A., Gaspar Venancio, L., Campos, L., Maiorano, E., Piersanti, O., Prezelus, S., Ragnit, U., Rosato, P., Rosso, C., Rozemeijer, H., Short, A., Strada, P., Stramaccioni, D., Szafraniec, M., Altieri, B., Buenadicha, G., Dupac, X., Gómez Cambronero, P., Henares Vilaboa, K., Hernandez de la Torre, C., Hoar, J., Lopez-Caniego Alcarria, M., Marcos Arenal, P., Martin Fleitas, J., Miluzio, M., Mora, A., Nieto, S., Perez Bonilla, R., Teodoro Idiago, P., Cordero, F., Mendes, J., Renk, F., Rudolph, A., Schmidt, M., Schwartz, J., Mellier, Y., Aussel, H., Berthé, M., Casenove, P., Cropper, M., Cuillandre, J. C., Dinis, J., Gregorio, A., Kuijken, K., Maciaszek, T., Miller, L., Scaramella, R., Schirmer, M., Tereno, I., Zacchei, A., Awan, S., Candini, G. P., Liebing, P., Nakajima, R., Dusini, S., Battaglia, P., Medinaceli, E., Sirignano, C., Baldry, I., Baugh, C., Bernardeau, F., Castander, F., Cimatti, A., Gillard, W., Guzzo, L., Hoekstra, H., Jahnke, K., Kitching, T., Martin, E., Mohr, J., Percival, W., and Rhodes, J.
Published: 2024
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48. Environmental effects in the interaction and merging of galaxies in zCOSMOS

Author: Kampczyk, P., Lilly, S. J., de Ravel, L., Fèvre, O. Le, Bolzonella, M., Carollo, C. M., Diener, C., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Maier, C., Renzini, A., Sargent, M. T., Vergani, D., Abbas, U., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Bordoloi, R., Caputi, K., Contini, T., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kneib, J. -P., Koekemoer, A. M., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Leauthaud, A., Mainieri, V., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Scodeggio, M., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Fumana, M., Guzzo, L., Kartaltepe, J., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Meneux, B., Oesch, P., Porciani, C., Pozzetti, L., and Scaramella, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: (Abridged) We analyze the environments and galactic properties (morphologies and star-formation histories) of a sample of 153 close kinematic pairs in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 1 identified in the zCOSMOS-bright 10k spectroscopic sample of galaxies. Correcting for projection effects, the fraction of close kinematic pairs is three times higher in the top density quartile than in the lowest one. This translates to a three times higher merger rate because the merger timescales are shown, from mock catalogues based on the Millennium simulation, to be largely independent of environment once the same corrections for projection is applied. We then examine the morphologies and stellar populations of galaxies in the pairs, comparing them to control samples that are carefully matched in environment so as to remove as much as possible the well-known effects of environment on the properties of the parent population of galaxies. Once the environment is properly taken into account in this way, we find that the early-late morphology mix is the same as for the parent population, but that the fraction of irregular galaxies is boosted by 50-75%, with a disproportionate increase in the number of irregular-irregular pairs (factor of 4-8 times), due to the disturbance of disk galaxies. Future dry-mergers, involving elliptical galaxies comprise less than 5% of all close kinematic pairs. In the closest pairs, there is a boost in the specific star-formation rates of star-forming galaxies of a factor of 2-4, and there is also evidence for an increased incidence of post star-burst galaxies. Although significant for the galaxies involved, the "excess" star-formation associated with pairs represents only about 5% of the integrated star-formation activity in the parent sample. Although most pair galaxies are in dense environments, the effects of interaction appear to be largest in the lower density environments., Comment: 38 pages, 17 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2011
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49. Euclid Definition Study Report

Author: Laureijs, R., Amiaux, J., Arduini, S., Auguères, J. -L., Brinchmann, J., Cole, R., Cropper, M., Dabin, C., Duvet, L., Ealet, A., Garilli, B., Gondoin, P., Guzzo, L., Hoar, J., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, R., Kitching, T., Maciaszek, T., Mellier, Y., Pasian, F., Percival, W., Rhodes, J., Criado, G. Saavedra, Sauvage, M., Scaramella, R., Valenziano, L., Warren, S., Bender, R., Castander, F., Cimatti, A., Fèvre, O. Le, Kurki-Suonio, H., Levi, M., Lilje, P., Meylan, G., Nichol, R., Pedersen, K., Popa, V., Lopez, R. Rebolo, Rix, H. -W., Rottgering, H., Zeilinger, W., Grupp, F., Hudelot, P., Massey, R., Meneghetti, M., Miller, L., Paltani, S., Paulin-Henriksson, S., Pires, S., Saxton, C., Schrabback, T., Seidel, G., Walsh, J., Aghanim, N., Amendola, L., Bartlett, J., Baccigalupi, C., Beaulieu, J. -P., Benabed, K., Cuby, J. -G., Elbaz, D., Fosalba, P., Gavazzi, G., Helmi, A., Hook, I., Irwin, M., Kneib, J. -P., Kunz, M., Mannucci, F., Moscardini, L., Tao, C., Teyssier, R., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Osorio, M. R. Zapatero, Boulade, O., Foumond, J. J., Di Giorgio, A., Guttridge, P., James, A., Kemp, M., Martignac, J., Spencer, A., Walton, D., Blümchen, T., Bonoli, C., Bortoletto, F., Cerna, C., Corcione, L., Fabron, C., Jahnke, K., Ligori, S., Madrid, F., Martin, L., Morgante, G., Pamplona, T., Prieto, E., Riva, M., Toledo, R., Trifoglio, M., Zerbi, F., Abdalla, F., Douspis, M., Grenet, C., Borgani, S., Bouwens, R., Courbin, F., Delouis, J. -M., Dubath, P., Fontana, A., Frailis, M., Grazian, A., Koppenhöfer, J., Mansutti, O., Melchior, M., Mignoli, M., Mohr, J., Neissner, C., Noddle, K., Poncet, M., Scodeggio, M., Serrano, S., Shane, N., Starck, J. -L., Surace, C., Taylor, A., Verdoes-Kleijn, G., Vuerli, C., Williams, O. R., Zacchei, A., Altieri, B., Sanz, I. Escudero, Kohley, R., Oosterbroek, T., Astier, P., Bacon, D., Bardelli, S., Baugh, C., Bellagamba, F., Benoist, C., Bianchi, D., Biviano, A., Branchini, E., Carbone, C., Cardone, V., Clements, D., Colombi, S., Conselice, C., Cresci, G., Deacon, N., Dunlop, J., Fedeli, C., Fontanot, F., Franzetti, P., Giocoli, C., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gow, J., Heavens, A., Hewett, P., Heymans, C., Holland, A., Huang, Z., Ilbert, O., Joachimi, B., Jennins, E., Kerins, E., Kiessling, A., Kirk, D., Kotak, R., Krause, O., Lahav, O., van Leeuwen, F., Lesgourgues, J., Lombardi, M., Magliocchetti, M., Maguire, K., Majerotto, E., Maoli, R., Marulli, F., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H., McLure, R., Melchiorri, A., Merson, A., Moresco, M., Nonino, M., Norberg, P., Peacock, J., Pello, R., Penny, M., Pettorino, V., Di Porto, C., Pozzetti, L., Quercellini, C., Radovich, M., Rassat, A., Roche, N., Ronayette, S., Rossetti, E., Sartoris, B., Schneider, P., Semboloni, E., Serjeant, S., Simpson, F., Skordis, C., Smadja, G., Smartt, S., Spano, P., Spiro, S., Sullivan, M., Tilquin, A., Trotta, R., Verde, L., Wang, Y., Williger, G., Zhao, G., Zoubian, J., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Euclid is a space-based survey mission from the European Space Agency designed to understand the origin of the Universe's accelerating expansion. It will use cosmological probes to investigate the nature of dark energy, dark matter and gravity by tracking their observational signatures on the geometry of the universe and on the cosmic history of structure formation. The mission is optimised for two independent primary cosmological probes: Weak gravitational Lensing (WL) and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The Euclid payload consists of a 1.2 m Korsch telescope designed to provide a large field of view. It carries two instruments with a common field-of-view of ~0.54 deg2: the visual imager (VIS) and the near infrared instrument (NISP) which contains a slitless spectrometer and a three bands photometer. The Euclid wide survey will cover 15,000 deg2 of the extragalactic sky and is complemented by two 20 deg2 deep fields. For WL, Euclid measures the shapes of 30-40 resolved galaxies per arcmin2 in one broad visible R+I+Z band (550-920 nm). The photometric redshifts for these galaxies reach a precision of dz/(1+z) < 0.05. They are derived from three additional Euclid NIR bands (Y, J, H in the range 0.92-2.0 micron), complemented by ground based photometry in visible bands derived from public data or through engaged collaborations. The BAO are determined from a spectroscopic survey with a redshift accuracy dz/(1+z) =0.001. The slitless spectrometer, with spectral resolution ~250, predominantly detects Ha emission line galaxies. Euclid is a Medium Class mission of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme, with a foreseen launch date in 2019. This report (also known as the Euclid Red Book) describes the outcome of the Phase A study., Comment: 116 pages, with executive summary and table of contents
Published: 2011

50. The zCOSMOS redshift survey : Influence of luminosity, mass and environment on the galaxy merger rate

Author: de Ravel, L., Kampczyk, P., Fèvre, O. Le, Lilly, S. J., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Lopez-Sanjuan, C., Bolzonella, M., Kovac, K., Abbas, U., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Contini, T., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., Dunlop, J. S., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kneib, J. -P., Koekemoer, A. M., Knobel, C., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Leauthaud, A., Maier, C., Mainieri, V., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Scodeggio, M., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Vergani, D., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Carollo, C. M., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Fumana, M., Guzzo, L., Maccagni, D., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Meneux, B., Oesch, P., Porciani, C., Pozzetti, L., Renzini, A., Scaramella, R., and Scarlata, C.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The contribution of major mergers to galaxy mass assembly along cosmic time is an important ingredient to the galaxy evolution scenario. We aim to measure the evolution of the merger rate for both luminosity/mass selected galaxy samples and investigate its dependence with the local environment. We use a sample of 10644 spectroscopically observed galaxies from the zCOSMOS redshift survey to identify pairs of galaxies destined to merge, using only pairs for which the velocity difference and projected separation of both components with a confirmed spectroscopic redshift indicate a high probability of merging. We have identified 263 spectroscopically confirmed pairs with r_p^{max} = 100 h^{-1} kpc. We find that the density of mergers depends on luminosity/mass, being higher for fainter/less massive galaxies, while the number of mergers a galaxy will experience does not depends significantly on its intrinsic luminosity but rather on its stellar mass. We find that the pair fraction and merger rate increase with local galaxy density, a property observed up to redshift z=1. We find that the dependence of the merger rate on the luminosity or mass of galaxies is already present up to redshifts z=1, and that the evolution of the volumetric merger rate of bright (massive) galaxies is relatively flat with redshift with a mean value of 3*10^{-4} (8*10^{-5} respectively) mergers h^3 Mpc^{-3} Gyr^{-1}. The dependence of the merger rate with environment indicates that dense environments favors major merger events as can be expected from the hierarchical scenario. The environment therefore has a direct impact in shapping-up the mass function and its evolution therefore plays an important role on the mass growth of galaxies along cosmic time., Comment: submitted to A&A, 17 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2011

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