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Title: Euclid Asteroseismology and Kuiper Belt Objects
Author: A. Gould, D. Huber, D. Stello

Euclid, which is primarily a dark-energy/cosmology mission, may have a microlensing component, consisting of perhaps four dedicated one-month campaigns aimed at the Galactic bulge. We show that such a program would yield excellent auxilliary science, including asteroseimology detections for about 100,000 giant stars, and detection of about 1000 Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), down to 2--2.5 mag below the observed break in the KBO luminosity function at I ~26. For the 400 KBOs below the break, Euclid will measure accurate orbits, with fractional period errors <~ 2.5%.

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NASA joins ESA's 'dark Universe' mission

NASA has officially joined ESA's Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the mysterious natures of dark matter and dark energy.
To be launched in 2020, Euclid's 1.2 m-diameter telescope and two scientific instruments will map the shape, brightness and 3D distribution of two billion galaxies covering more than a third of the whole sky and looking back over three-quarters of the history of the Universe.
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 Dark Universe mission blueprint complete

ESA's Euclid mission to explore the hidden side of the Universe - dark energy and dark matter - reached an important milestone today that will see it head towards full construction.
Selected in October 2011 alongside Solar Orbiter as one of the first two medium-class missions of the Cosmic Vision 2015-25 plan, Euclid received final approval from ESA's Science Programme Committee to move into the full construction phase, leading to its launch in 2020.
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Euclid telescope to probe dark universe

Europe has given the final go-ahead to a space mission to investigate the "dark universe".
The Euclid telescope will look deep into the cosmos for clues to the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
European Space Agency (Esa) member states made their decision at a meeting in Paris. Euclid should be ready for launch in 2019.
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Title: Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite
Authors: Luca Amendola, Stephen Appleby, David Bacon, Tessa Baker, Marco Baldi, Nicola Bartolo, Alain Blanchard, Camille Bonvin, Stefano Borgani, Enzo Branchini, Clare Burrage, Stefano Camera, Carmelita Carbone, Luciano Casarini, Mark Cropper, Claudia deRham, Cinzia di Porto, Anne Ealet, Pedro G. Ferreira, Fabio Finelli, Juan Garcia-Bellido, Tommaso Giannantonio, Luigi Guzzo, Alan Heavens, Lavinia Heisenberg, Catherine Heymans, Henk Hoekstra, Lukas Hollenstein, Rory Holmes, Ole Horst, Knud Jahnke, Thomas D. Kitching, Tomi Koivisto, Martin Kunz, Giuseppe La Vacca, Marisa March, Elisabetta Majerotto, Katarina Markovic, David Marsh, Federico Marulli, Richard Massey, Yannick Mellier, David F. Mota, Nelson Nunes, Will Percival, Valeria Pettorino, Cristiano Porciani, Claudia Quercellini, Justin Read, Massimiliano Rinaldi, et al. (13 additional authors not shown)

Euclid is a European Space Agency medium class mission selected for launch in 2019 within the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. The main goal of Euclid is to understand the origin of the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Euclid will explore the expansion history of the Universe and the evolution of cosmic structures by measuring shapes and redshifts of galaxies as well as the distribution of clusters of galaxies over a large fraction of the sky. Although the main driver for Euclid is the nature of dark energy, Euclid science covers a vast range of topics, from cosmology to galaxy evolution to planetary research. In this review we focus on cosmology and fundamental physics, with a strong emphasis on science beyond the current standard models. We discuss five broad topics: dark energy and modified gravity, dark matter, initial conditions, basic assumptions and questions of methodology in the data analysis. This review has been planned and carried out within Euclid's Theory Working Group and is meant to provide a guide to the scientific themes that will underlie the activity of the group during the preparation of the Euclid mission.

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Durham scientists part of new space mission to find dark energy

Scientists at Durham University will be part of a major new space mission to discover the nature of two mysterious substances believed to make up a large part of our Universe. The Euclid project will aim to uncover the secrets of dark energy and dark matter using one of the largest optical digital cameras ever put into Space.
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Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the US and Brian Schmidt of Australia studied a particular type of stellar explosion, or supernova, and found that the most distant of these objects were receding quickest.
This observation led to the theory that some mysterious, gravitationally repulsive dark energy must be behind the rising expansion of the cosmos - although we don't really have the foggiest idea what that is.
Esa's Euclid telescope will endeavour to get some answers. It will launch in 2019 and map the spread of galaxies and clusters of galaxies over 10 billion years of cosmic history.
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Euclid (after the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria, the "Father of Geometry") is a planned space telescope, an M-class mission of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2020-2025, planned to be launched in 2019. Its goal to map the large scale distribution of the dark matter and characterise properties of dark energy.
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UCL eyes triple stake in Cosmic Vision

UCL looks set to play a central role in three new space missions designed to unlock the secrets of the Sun, search for dark matter, and seek out planets that could harbour life.
The UK Space Agency has just awarded £3.65m to help scientists prepare for the missions, Solar Orbiter, Euclid, and PLATO, and UCL is involved in all of them.
The missions are part of ESA's Cosmic Vision programme and have been selected from more than 50 original ideas to go forward for detailed technical and cost assessments.
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SSTL wins role in the Euclid mission
SSTL has secured a 300,000 euro contract to undertake radiation testing as part of the European Space Agency's Euclid mission.
The 9-month contract provides for radiation testing of the charge-coupled devices (CCDs) onboard the Euclid spacecraft and includes a team led by SSTL, and also comprising the Open University, CEA France and Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL).

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In response to the first Call for Missions for the Cosmic Visions plan, issued by ESA in March 2007, two dark-energy related missions were proposed: the dark universe explorer (DUNE) and the spectroscopic all-sky cosmology explorer (SPACE).
In October 2007 both mission concepts were selected for further assessment and consideration. The two concepts were later merged and a mission that combines weak gravitational lensing and baryonic acoustic oscillations measurements - Euclid - is now the dark energy mission M-class candidate.

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