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

Event

CEPC 2025 International Workshop takes place in Barcelona

June 19, 2025

The 2025 European Edition of the International Workshop on the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) is currently underway in Barcelona, Spain, from June 16 to 19, hosted by IFAE.

Event

Outreach talk about the latest DESI results

June 11, 2025

Sindhu Satyavolu and Laura Casas delivered the seminar “Probing Cosmic Acceleration with DESI: Is Dark Energy Evolving?” at the Sala de Graus II (UAB), in a hybrid format. The speakers presented the latest results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and introduced key cosmological concepts to ensure accessibility for a non-specialist audience.

New results

Andreu Font Presents Latest DESI BAO Results at Harvard

May 5, 2025

Andreu Font presented new DESI results on Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at Harvard, raising questions about the ΛCDM model and the constancy of the cosmological constant.