In 2012 ESA and the European Scientific community selected for implementation the cosmological Euclid mission with the prime objective to study the geometry and nature of the dark Universe (Dark Matter and Dark Energy) with unprecedented accuracy. The mission stated goal is to investigate the distance-redshift relationship and evolution of the cosmic structure by measuring two cosmological probes: The Weak Gravitational Lensing (WL) and the Galaxy Clustering (GC). However, how do we translate the high level cosmological goals into a design concept and requirements for an optical system that needs to be developed, tested and commissioned? The objective of this talk is to introduce the system engineering processes to translate the stakeholders needs into a concrete concept and to present the resulting telescope, instrumentation and satellite design and trade-offs performed to build an instrument that would allow to observe optically the opaque universe.


Seminar, October 17, 2014, 12:00. Seminar Room

Hosted by Prof. Lluis Torner