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Suggested Citation:"Notes." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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Notes

1 All costs expressed in fiscal year 2012 U.S. dollars unless otherwise specified.

2. National Research Council (NRC), New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2010, p. 17.

3. NRC, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, p. 97.

4. NRC, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, p. 207.

5. NRC, Report of the Panel on Implementing Recommendations from the New Worlds, New Horizons Decadal Survey [prepublication version], The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2010.

6. J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay, R. Bean, D. Bennett, R. Brown, C. Conselice, M. Donahue, S. Gaudi, T. Lauer, S. Perlmutter, et al., Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Interim Report, 2011, available at http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/WFIRST_Interim_Report.pdf.

7. European Space Agency (ESA), Euclid Definition Study Report (Red Book), ESA/SRE(2011)12, Paris, France, September 29, 2011.

8. ESA, Euclid Definition Study Report (Red Book), 2011.

9. ESA, Euclid Definition Study Report (Red Book), 2011.

10. ESA, Euclid Definition Study Report (Red Book), 2011.

11. J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay, R. Bean, D. Bennett, R. Brown, C. Conselice, M. Donahue, S. Gaudi, T. Lauer, S. Perlmutter, et al., Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Interim Report, 2011, available at http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/WFIRST_Interim_Report.pdf.

12. Paul Schechter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Discussion of WFIRST and Euclid,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

13. NRC, Panel Reports—New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, p. 19.

14. Paul Schechter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Discussion of WFIRST and Euclid,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

15. D. Weinberg, M. Mortonson, D. Eisenstein, C. Hirata, A. Riess, and E. Rozo, Observational Probes of Cosmic Acceleration, arXiv:1201.2434, submitted on January 11, 2012.

16. J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay, R. Bean, D. Bennett, R. Brown, C. Conselice, M. Donahue, S. Gaudi, T. Lauer, S. Perlmutter, et al., Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Interim Report, 2011, available at http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/WFIRST_Interim_Report.pdf.

17. Paul Schechter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Discussion of WFIRST and Euclid,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

18. D. Huterer, M. Takada, G. Bernstein, and B. Jain, Systematic errors in future weak-lensing surveys: Requirements and prospects for self-calibration, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 366:1010, 2006.

Suggested Citation:"Notes." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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19. Chris Hirata, California Institute of Technology, “Discussion of Euclid and WFIRST Gravitational Lensing Capabilities,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

20. G. Bernstein, Shape measurement biases from underfitting and ellipticity gradients, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 406:2793, 2010.

21. L.M. Voigt, S.L. Bridle, A. Amara, M. Cropper, T.D. Kitching, R. Massey, J. Rhodes, and T. Schrabback, The impact of galaxy colour gradients on cosmic shear measurement, arxiv:1105.5595, May 27, 2011.

22. LSST Corporation, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, available at http://www.lsst.org/lsst/.

23. Chris Hirata, California Institute of Technology, “Discussion of Euclid and WFIRST Gravitational Lensing Capabilities,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

24. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System), available at http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/.

25. The Dark Energy Survey, available at http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/.

26. LSST Corporation, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, available at http://www.lsst.org/lsst/.

27. Astro-WISE (Astronomical Wide-field Imaging System for Europe), The KIDS Survey, available at http://www.astro-wise.org/projects/KIDS/.

28. Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Hyper Subprime-Cam, available at http://www.naoj.org/Projects/HSC/index.html.

29. Yannick Mellier, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, “Euclid: Mapping the Geometry of the Dark Universe,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

30. J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay, R. Bean, D. Bennett, R. Brown, C. Conselice, M. Donahue, S. Gaudi, T. Lauer, S. Perlmutter, et al., Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Interim Report, 2011, available at http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/WFIRST_Interim_Report.pdf.

31. V. Trimble and J.A. Ceja, Productivity and impact of astronomical facilities: Three years of publications and citation rates, Astronomische Nachrichten 329(6):632-647, 2008.

32. J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay, R. Bean, D. Bennett, R. Brown, C. Conselice, M. Donahue, S. Gaudi, T. Lauer, S. Perlmutter, et al., Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Interim Report, 2011, available at http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/WFIRST_Interim_Report.pdf.

33. David Bennett, University of Notre Dame, “Exoplanet Microlensing Surveys with WFIRST and Euclid,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

34. Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University, “Impact of Current and Future Developments in Microlensing on Euclid and WFIRST,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

35. George Helou, California Institute of Technology, “Lessons Learned from Past and Current NASA-ESA Collaborations,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

36. Steven Kahn, Stanford University, “LSST, Euclid, and WFIRST,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

37. George Helou, California Institute of Technology, “Lessons Learned from Past and Current NASA-ESA Collaborations,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

38. Michael Turner, University of Chicago, “Strategic Implications of a Small U.S. Investment in Euclid,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

Suggested Citation:"Notes." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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39. Fabio Favata, European Space Agency, “The Euclid Mission in the ESA Science Programme,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

40. Paul Hertz, NASA, “Panel Discussion with NASA,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

41. Paul Hertz, NASA, “Panel Discussion with NASA,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

42. Jason Rhodes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, conveyed to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

43. Yannick Mellier, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, “Euclid: Mapping the Geometry of the Dark Universe,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

44. Yannick Mellier, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, “Euclid: Mapping the Geometry of the Dark Universe,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

45. George Helou, California Institute of Technology, “Lessons Learned from Past and Current NASA-ESA Collaborations,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

46. Yannick Mellier, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, “Euclid: Mapping the Geometry of the Dark Universe,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

47. Paul Hertz, NASA, “Panel Discussion with NASA,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

48. Chris Hirata, California Institute of Technology, “Discussion of Euclid and WFIRST Gravitational Lensing Capabilities,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

49. Paul Hertz, NASA, “Panel Discussion with NASA,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012.

50. The committee notes that, as of January 20, 2012, the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) system does not list any such program.

51. NRC, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, p. 208.

52. Jason Rhodes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “U.S. Perspective on a U.S. Contribution to Euclid,” presentation to the Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., January 19, 2012.

Suggested Citation:"Notes." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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NASA proposed to make a hardware contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission in exchange for U.S. membership on the Euclid Science Team and science data access. The Euclid mission will employ a space telescope that will make potentially important contributions to probing dark energy and to the measurement of cosmological parameters. Euclid will image a large fraction of the extragalactic sky at unprecedented resolution and measure spectra for millions of galaxies.

Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid evaluates whether a small investment in Euclid (around $20 million in hardware) is a viable part of an overall strategy to pursue the science goals set forth in New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, a decadal plan for ground- and space- based astronomy and astrophysics. The top-ranked large-scale, space-based priority of the New Worlds, New Horizons is the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). WFIRST has a broad, wide-field, near-infrared capability that will serve a wide variety of science programs of U.S. astronomers, including exoplanet research, near-infrared sky surveys, a guest observer program, and dark energy research. In carrying out this study the authoring committee's intent has been to be clear that this report does not alter New Worlds, New Horizon's plans for the implementation of the survey's priorities.

Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid concludes that the NASA proposal would represent a valuable first step toward meeting one of the science goals (furthering dark energy research) of WFIRST. While WFIRST dark energy measurements are expected to be superior to Euclid's, U.S. participation in Euclid will have clear scientific, technical, and programmatic benefits to the U.S. community as WFIRST and Euclid go forward. According to this report, the current NASA proposal, to invest modestly in Euclid, is consistent with an expeditious development of WFIRST and the achievement of the broader, and more ambitious, goals outlined in New Worlds, New Horizons. Knowledge gained from the Euclid project could help optimize the science return of the WFIRST mission as well. Such an investment will further the goals of New Worlds, New Horizons, be helpful to the preparations for WFIRST, and enhance WFIRST's chances of success.

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