Instrumentation

ESA's Euclid milestone achieved

September 9, 2020

Observational Cosmology Group

The NISP includes the filter wheel (FWA), a critical element that has been designed, built, assembled and verified by the Barcelona team, a group made up of the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) and the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya - Institute of Space Science (IEEC-ICE-CSIC).

Euclid's filter Wheel Render Assembly
Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) installed in the Pay Load Module of Euclid's Flight Model Credit: ESA / Airbus
Euclid's filter Wheel Render Assembly

Latest Group News

New Publication

New Cosmology group paper

January 12, 2023

“Cosmological Fisher forecasts for next-generation spectroscopic surveys ” by William Doumerg and collaborators has been uploaded to arXiv.

New Member

New Member in the Cosmology group

November 2, 2022

Hui Kong has joined the Observational Cosmology Group as a postdoc researcher.

New Member

New member in the Cosmology Group

October 5, 2022

Lucy Reynolds has joined the Observational Cosmology group at IFAE as PhD student.