TY - JOUR
T1 - Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite
AU - The Euclid Theory Working Group
AU - Amendola, Luca
AU - Appleby, Stephen
AU - Bacon, David
AU - Baker, Tessa
AU - Baldi, Marco
AU - Bartolo, Nicola
AU - Blanchard, Alain
AU - Bonvin, Camille
AU - Borgani, Stefano
AU - Branchini, Enzo
AU - Burrage, Clare
AU - Camera, Stefano
AU - Carbone, Carmelita
AU - Casarini, Luciano
AU - Cropper, Mark
AU - deRham, Claudia
AU - Porto, Cinzia di
AU - Ealet, Anne
AU - Ferreira, Pedro G.
AU - Finelli, Fabio
AU - Garcia-Bellido, Juan
AU - Giannantonio, Tommaso
AU - Guzzo, Luigi
AU - Heavens, Alan
AU - Heisenberg, Lavinia
AU - Heymans, Catherine
AU - Hoekstra, Henk
AU - Hollenstein, Lukas
AU - Holmes, Rory
AU - Horst, Ole
AU - Jahnke, Knud
AU - Kitching, Thomas D.
AU - Koivisto, Tomi
AU - Kunz, Martin
AU - Vacca, Giuseppe La
AU - March, Marisa
AU - Majerotto, Elisabetta
AU - Markovic, Katarina
AU - Marsh, David
AU - Marulli, Federico
AU - Massey, Richard
AU - Mellier, Yannick
AU - Mota, David F.
AU - Nunes, Nelson
AU - Percival, Will
AU - Pettorino, Valeria
AU - Porciani, Cristiano
AU - Quercellini, Claudia
AU - Simpson, Fergus
AU - Taylor, Andy
N1 - 236 pages, minor edits to match the journal version 2013
PY - 2013/9/2
Y1 - 2013/9/2
N2 - Euclid is a European Space Agency medium class mission selected for launch in 2019 within the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. The main goal of Euclid is to understand the origin of the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Euclid will explore the expansion history of the Universe and the evolution of cosmic structures by measuring shapes and redshifts of galaxies as well as the distribution of clusters of galaxies over a large fraction of the sky. Although the main driver for Euclid is the nature of dark energy, Euclid science covers a vast range of topics, from cosmology to galaxy evolution to planetary research. In this review we focus on cosmology and fundamental physics, with a strong emphasis on science beyond the current standard models. We discuss five broad topics: dark energy and modified gravity, dark matter, initial conditions, basic assumptions and questions of methodology in the data analysis. This review has been planned and carried out within Euclid's Theory Working Group and is meant to provide a guide to the scientific themes that will underlie the activity of the group during the preparation of the Euclid mission.
AB - Euclid is a European Space Agency medium class mission selected for launch in 2019 within the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. The main goal of Euclid is to understand the origin of the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Euclid will explore the expansion history of the Universe and the evolution of cosmic structures by measuring shapes and redshifts of galaxies as well as the distribution of clusters of galaxies over a large fraction of the sky. Although the main driver for Euclid is the nature of dark energy, Euclid science covers a vast range of topics, from cosmology to galaxy evolution to planetary research. In this review we focus on cosmology and fundamental physics, with a strong emphasis on science beyond the current standard models. We discuss five broad topics: dark energy and modified gravity, dark matter, initial conditions, basic assumptions and questions of methodology in the data analysis. This review has been planned and carried out within Euclid's Theory Working Group and is meant to provide a guide to the scientific themes that will underlie the activity of the group during the preparation of the Euclid mission.
KW - astro-ph.CO
KW - gr-qc
KW - hep-ph
U2 - 10.12942/lrr-2013-6
DO - 10.12942/lrr-2013-6
M3 - Article
JO - Living Rev. Relativity
JF - Living Rev. Relativity
M1 - 6
ER -