Ground test equipment description for NISP instrument validation on ground

A. Costille (1) , A. Carle (1) , F. Beaumont (1) , E. Prieto (1) , C. Fabron (1) , J. Garcia (1) , A. Bozier (1) , M. Pons (1) , T. Maciaszek (1, 2)

1 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
2 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]

EUCLID mission [1] has been selected by ESA in 2012 in the context of the Cosmic Vision program tounderstand the nature of the dark energy and the dark matter. It is designed to map the geometry of the darkUniverse by investigating the distance-redshift relationship and the evolution of cosmic structures.

Mots clés: activity report; dark matter; spectrometer: design; satellite; galaxy: redshift; galaxy: spatial distribution; calibration; performance

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

A. Costille, A. Carle, F. Beaumont, E. Prieto, C. Fabron, et al.. Ground test equipment description for NISP instrument validation on ground. International Conference on Space Optics, Oct 2016, Biarritz, France. pp.1056238, ⟨10.1117/12.2296067⟩. ⟨hal-01669621⟩