The Euclid space mission proposes to survey 15000 square degrees of the extragalactic sky during 6 years, with a step-and-stare technique. The scheduling of observation sequences is driven by the primary scientific objectives, spacecraft constraints, calibration requirements and physical properties of the sky. We present the current reference implementation of the Euclid survey and on-going work on survey optimization.
@article{arxiv.1502.00903,
title = {Euclid Space Mission: building the sky survey},
author = {I. Tereno and C. S. Carvalho and J. Dinis and R. Scaramella and J. Amiaux and C. Burigana and J. C. Cuillandre and A. da Silva and A. Derosa and E. Maiorano and M. Maris and D. Oliveira and P. Franzetti and B. Garilli and P. Gomez-Alvarez and M. Meneghetti and S. Wachter and the Euclid Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.00903},
year = {2017}
}
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to appear in Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 306, "Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology", A.F. Heavens, J.-L. Starck & A. Krone-Martins, eds