Visit

IFAE members visit Euclid at Thales Cannes

March 1, 2023

Observational Cosmology Group

Cristobal Padilla and PhD student William d’Assignies, visited the Euclid space telescope at Thales Cannes on February 22, with eighty members of the European collaboration.

It was the last visit before the launch planned for next July, with a Falcon 9 from SpaceX.

Latest Group News

New results

Andreu Font Presents Latest DESI BAO Results at Harvard

May 5, 2025

During the week of April 15, 2025, Andreu Font delivered a talk at Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics, presenting the latest Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration. His presentation, titled “How Constant is the Cosmological Constant? Challenging the ΛCDM Model with New Measurements from the DESI Collaboration ”, explored how recent data may question key assumptions of the standard cosmological model.

The talk is available to watch online .

New Member

New member in the Cosmology Group

April 2, 2025

Tyann Dumerchat joined the Observational Cosmology group as a postdoctoral researcher

Instrumentation

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope

March 13, 2025

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has reached a major milestone with the successful installation of the LSST Camera on its telescope.