#cosmology

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This week ~600 members of the @ec_euclid are meeting in Rome and online for the annual consortium meeting. Discussing current state of the mission, first science, and progress on the data treatment pipeline.

Also, the 2024 STAR Prize was awarded to a number of individuals and groups for remarkable work in the past year - honour just a small part of the intense and impressive work people have done within the EC.

https://www.euclid-ec.org/consortium/star-prize/stars2024/

has started its 2nd de-icing campaign, which in total will last only about a week.

Water molecules 💦 that are inside the instrument cavity from before launch will likely remain there throughout the mission - they freeze 🧊 , but change places over time. We don't want them on mirrors, so once in a while we warm up a mirror 🔥 to sublimate the ice away.

Read more in the new @ec_euclid post:

https://www.euclid-ec.org/de-icing-campaign-2/

It’s been more than 25 years since the most recent revolutionary idea about our , the existence of dark energy, was shown to fundamentally be a part of our reality.

Many unsolved problems and theoretical conundrums remain, yet our fundamental understanding of the Universe hasn’t progressed in several decades.

It’s because our current best theories, despite their shortcomings, are so undeniably successful.


https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/fundamental-science-victim-success/

1112 authors for a space mission 🛰️ reference paper seems ... adequate 🤷🏽😯😁

We, the @ec_euclid will publish five main reference papers aimed at the astronomy community about the mission, the instruments, both cosmology and other astronomy science possibilities, as well as the cosmological simulations used to test all procedures.

Available coming Tuesday, 23 May, 12:00 CEST (and on arXiv a few hours later). Stay tuned!