Euclid Assessment Study Report for the ESA Cosmic Visions

Understand

Euclid is a proposed high-precision survey mission to map the geometry of the Dark Universe with demonstrated feasibility.

• Euclid's Visible - Near-InfraRed imaging and spectroscopy of the extragalactic sky will further produce extensive legacy science to the boundaries of the visible universe.
• The mission is optimised for two primary cosmological probes: Weak gravitational Lensing (WL) and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO).
• Euclid's wide survey will cover 20,000 deg2, measuring shapes and redshifts of galaxies to redshift 2.