I was thinking earlier today that it’s been a while since I last posted anything about the European Space Agency’s Euclid Mission but I’ve got an excuse to remedy that today because there is a brand new a press release about the Euclid Consortium’s Flagship 2 simulations, a (low-resolution) visual representation of one of which is shown above.
The news is that the largest ever synthetic galaxy catalogue is now public; a team of 8 institutions within the Euclid Consortium, led by the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) and the Port d’Informació Científica (PIC) in Barcelona have developed this `mock’ catalogue, which includes 3.4 billion galaxies, each with 400 modelled properties available for the scientific community. It was constructed to help analyse data from the Euclid mission, but has many other potential uses so is being shared otuside the Consortium.
You can read more about this catalogue, and also find out how the access the simulated catalogues, here. You could also read the scientific paper describing the flagship simulations here.
P.S. The first main data release from Euclid (known to its friends as DR1) will take please on October 21, 2026. That’s just 13 months away…
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