ECL-Support group
The Euclid mission is under the responsibility of Yannick Mellier, Euclid
Consortium Lead (ECL) and IAP staff researcher.
To assist the ECL and ensure the effective operation of the Euclid Consortium and its good
relationships with ESA and other Euclid partners an ECL-Support group has been set up.
This group is settled at IAP.
On December 1st 2016, the ECL-Support group includes:
- the ECL, who is also the head of the whole IAP Euclid team (Yannick
Mellier; IAP and CEA research associate)
- a Euclid Advisory and Coordination Support Lead (Michel Berthé; CEA
and IAP research associate)
- the Euclid Consortium System Engineer (Jérôme Amiaux CEA; and IAP research associate)
- the engineer in charge of the Euclid Consortium management control (Eugénie Girin; IAP - CNES)
- the head of the Euclid Consortium communication group (Eugénie Girin; IAP - CNES;
- the IAP local Euclid project manager and contact point for the ESA RSSD Euclid Consortium accounts (Catherine Grenet; IAP)
- the core of the Euclid Consortium Communication group (namely, for IAP, Frédéric Magnard and Jean-Philippe Uzan)
- a project assistant secretary (Nitaya Singsengsouvanh; IAP - CNES).
OU-VIS group
IAP is responsible for an important sub-system of the Euclid Science Ground Segment
(SGS), the OU-VIS Organisation Unit, (see http://www.euclid-ec.org/?page_id=2625).
OU-VIS is in charge of defining, designing, testing, selecting and validating the algorithms and
the data processing pipelines of the Euclid VIS camera (see http://www.euclid-ec.org/?page_id=2485).
The OU-VIS group is mainly settled at IAP and includes (on January 1st 2014):
- the heads of OU-VIS (Catherine Grenet and Henry Joy McCracken; IAP)
- 3 development software engineers (Sybille Téchené, Olivier Hérent, Patrick Hudelot; IAP)
- 4 IAP staff researchers (Patrick Tisserand, Henry Joy McCracken, Raphael Gavazzi, Yannick Mellier; IAP)
SGS System group
IAP is also contributing to the Euclid SGS System team activities.
It is in charge of setting the computing and archiving resources requirements
and of designing the operational architecture of the Euclid ground and space data
processing and archiving pipelines.
The IAP SGS System group is composed of (on January 1st 2014):
- a responsible SGS System engineer (Jean-Marc Delouis; IAP)
- a development software engineer (Nizar Malkyia; CDD CNES)
Euclid Science Working Group (SWG)
The IAP leading activities within the Euclid SWGs primarily concern the
“Weak Lensing” and "Planet" working groups, for which Karim Benabed (IAP) are Jean-Philippe
Beaulieu (IAP) are (co)-responsible. As SWG leads, their role consists in defining and planning the main tasks and
objectives of their assigned working group. They also monitor and coordinate SWG activities and report to
the SWG coordination group and the ECL.
IAP is also heavily involved in the activities of the "Simulations" SWG. Stéphane Colombi (IAP),
Sébastien Peirani (IAP), and Christophe Pichon (IAP) contribute to the validations
of power spectrum reconstruction methods used for weak-lensing and large-scale-structure analyses.
They primarily focus on the identification of critical issues of cosmological simulations and on setting the needs
in accuracy as well as in computing resources for the production of the "End-to-End" simulations of
the Euclid mission.
Euclid scientific activities
Many IAP staff researchers participate in Euclid scientific activities within the SWG or OU teams.
Current activities focus on the mission performance, the definition of the best observing strategy with the Euclid satellite,
the production of tools for the scientific exploitation of Euclid data and the preparation of
support and follow-up observing campaigns with ground and space based facilities
(see http://www.euclid-ec.org/?page_id=2581). These teams will also be in charge of the
scientific exploitation of the Euclid mission.
On January 1st 2014, the IAP staff researchers contributing to the Euclid scientific activities are:
Virginie Batista (Exo-planets)
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (Exo-planets)
Karim Benabed (Weak lensing, large scale structure, cross-analyses, cosmological
forecasts)
Francis Bernardeau (Weak lensing, galaxy clustering, large scale structure, theory)
Emmanuel Bertin (Galaxies, data production)
Arnaud Cassan (Exo-planets)
Stéphane Charlot (Evolution of galaxies, high redshift universe, photometric redshifts)
Sandrine Codis (PhD; Weak lensing, galaxy clustering, large scale structure, theory)
Stéphane Colombi (cosmological simulations, statistics, large scale structure)
Cédric Deffayet (theory)
Florence Durret (Clusters of galaxies)
Raphael Gavazzi (Strong lensing, weak lensing, galaxies, data production)
Valérie De Lapparent (Galaxies)
Gary Mamon (Galaxies, clusters of galaxies)
Jean-Baptiste Marquette (Exo-planets)
Henry Joy McCracken (Large scale structure, galaxy clustering, data production)
Yannick Mellier (Weak lensing, strong lensing, large scale structure, cosmological forecasts, data production)
Sébastien Peirani (Cosmological simulations, strong lensing)
Christophe Pichon (Cosmological simulations, large scale structure)
Vivien Scottez (PhD; redshifts)
Patrick Tisserand (Exo-planets, data production)
Jean-Philippe Uzan (Weak lensing, galaxy clustering, large scale structure, theory)
Marta Volonteri (AGNs, Galaxies)
Benjamin Wandelt (Weak lensing, galaxy clustering, statistics, large scale structure)
