Projects
Euclid
The Euclid satellite has been launched on July 1st, 2023 and will soon be taking data. It will provide two maps of the Large-Scale Structure for weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. Many of us are actively involved with the Euclid mission, from the building the basic infrastructure in the Science Ground Segment to the scientific analysis within the Galaxy Clustering SWG.
https://www.euclid-ec.org/
People: Chiara Moretti, Emiliano Sefusatti, Pierluigi Monaco, Francesco Verdiani, Federico Rizzo, Elena Sarpa, Jacopo Salvalaggio, Matteo Viel, Emilio Bellini
For the Euclid Collaboration:
- Pezzotta, Moretti, Zennaro, Moradinezhad, Crocce, Sefusatti, Ferrero, Pardede, Eggemeier et al., Euclid preparation. TBD. Galaxy power spectrum modelling in real space, arXiv:2312.00679
- Bose, Carrilho, Marinucci, Moretti, et al. , Euclid preparation TBD. Modelling spectroscopic clustering on mildly nonlinear scales in beyond-ΛCDM models, arXiv:2311.13529
Square-Kilometer Array Observatory
The SKA Observatory, or SKAO for short, will operate two telescopes across two continents: hundreds of dishes and tens of thousands of antennas spread over hundreds of kilometres, co-located in Australia & South Africa. It will be, by several measures, the largest scientific facility built by humankind through a truly global collaboration.
Collecting and processing unprecedented volumes of data, SKAO will tackle some of our time's most fundamental scientific questions, ranging from the birth of the Universe to the origins of life. Building is ongoing, with an estimated finish date in 2029. Nevertheless, precursors and pathfinders are online, already producing unprecedented science results and preparing the community for the full SKAO capabilities and challenges.
People: Isabella Carucci, Matteo Viel
Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) will be a 10-m class with a large field-of-view (5 sq. degree) and high multiplex (20,000) multi-object spectrograph facility. It is expected to cover with multiple targets the redshift range 1 < z < 4 mapping the large-scale structures with 13,000 galaxies/deg2 over 10,000 deg2. It will represent the next generation galaxy survey beyond Euclid and DESI.
People: Chiara Moretti, Emiliano Sefusatti, Matteo Viel
For the WST collaboration:
- Mainieri et al., The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper, arXiv:2403.05398