Speaker
Description
Euclid is European Space Agency’s space telescope dedicated to cosmology, through two main probes: weak lensing and galaxy clustering. It was launched in July 2023 and is now in its third year of survey. It is performing a large photometric and spectroscopic survey of galaxies over 14000 sq. deg. of the Extragalactic sky (Wide Survey), as well as a Deep Survey of three areas of the sky (53 sq. deg., 2 mag. deeper than the Wide Survey), and Auxiliary Fields for calibration purposes. The design of the survey and data-processing are performed by the Euclid Consortium, while science operations are performed by the Science Operations Centre at ESA-ESAC. In this presentation, I will focus on the Euclid mission and its on-going survey, as well as present early scientific results and future prospects.