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A Brief Introduction to EUCLID

Marco Scodeggio

P. Franzetti, B. Garilli(and L. Paioro)

AstroSiesta 4 Novembre 2011


The Scientific Context

2011 Nobel Prize for Physics !!!


The Scientific ContextAn accelerating Universe filled with Dark Energy

(and some Dark Matter too)


GeneralRelativity

Perfect Gas: pressure andtemperature

General Equationof State

How to describe Dark Energy


VIS: Optical Imager


NISP: Near Infraredimager and spectrograph


The Mission Ground Segment


The Spectroscopic Simulations