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Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

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Lance Miller

Professor of Astrophysics

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Cosmology
  • Euclid
Lance.Miller@physics.ox.ac.uk
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Euclid

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 697 (2025) ARTN A2

Authors:

Ms Cropper, A Al-Bahlawan, J Amiaux, S Awan, R Azzollini, K Benson, M Berthe, J Boucher, E Bozzo, C Brockley-Blatt, Gp Candini, C Cara, Ra Chaudery, Re Cole, P Danto, J Denniston, Am Di Giorgio, B Dryer, J-P Dubois, J Endicott, M Farina, E Galli, L Genolet, Jpd Gow, P Guttridge, M Hailey, D Hall, C Harper, H Hoekstra, Ad Holland, B Horeau, D Hu, Re James, A Khalil, R King, T Kitching, R Kohley, C Larcheveque, A Lawrenson, P Liebing, Sj Liu, J Martignac, R Massey, Hj McCracken, L Miller, N Murray, R Nakajima, S-M Niemi, Jw Nightingale, S Paltani

Abstract:

This paper presents the specification, design, and development of the Visible Camera (VIS) on the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission. VIS is a large optical-band imager with a field of view of 0.54 deg2 sampled at 000 . 1 with an array of 609 Megapixels and a spatial resolution of 000 . 18. It will be used to survey approximately 14 000 deg2 of extragalactic sky to measure the distortion of galaxies in the redshift range z = 0.1–1.5 resulting from weak gravitational lensing, one of the two principal cosmology probes leveraged by Euclid. With photometric redshifts, the distribution of dark matter can be mapped in three dimensions, and the extent to which this has changed with look-back time can be used to constrain the nature of dark energy and theories of gravity. The entire VIS focal plane will be transmitted to provide the largest images of the Universe from space to date, specified to reach mAB ≥ 24.5 with a signal-to-noise ratio S/N ≥ 10 in a single broad IE ≃ (r + i + z) band over a six-year survey. The particularly challenging aspects of the instrument are the control and calibration of observational biases, which lead to stringent performance requirements and calibration regimes. With its combination of spatial resolution, calibration knowledge, depth, and area covering most of the extra-Galactic sky, VIS will also provide a legacy data set for many other fields. This paper discusses the rationale behind the conception of VIS and describes the instrument design and development, before reporting the prelaunch performance derived from ground calibrations and brief results from the in-orbit commissioning. VIS should reach fainter than mAB = 25 with S/N ≥ 10 for galaxies with a full width at half maximum of 000 . 3 in a 100 . 3 diameter aperture over the Wide Survey, and mAB ≥ 26.4 for a Deep Survey that will cover more than 50 deg2. The paper also describes how the instrument works with the Euclid telescope and survey, and with the science data processing, to extract the cosmological information.
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Euclid

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 697 (2025) ARTN A5

Authors:

Fj Castander, P Fosalba, J Stadel, D Potter, J Carretero, P Tallada-Crespí, L Pozzetti, M Bolzonella, Ga Mamon, L Blot, K Hoffmann, M Huertas-Company, P Monaco, Ej Gonzalez, G De Lucia, C Scarlata, M-A Breton, L Linke, C Viglione, S-S Li, Z Zhai, Z Baghkhani, K Pardede, C Neissner, R Teyssier, M Crocce, I Tutusaus, L Miller, G Congedo, A Biviano, M Hirschmann, A Pezzotta, H Aussel, H Hoekstra, T Kitching, Wj Percival, L Guzzo, Y Mellier, Pa Oesch, Raa Bowler, S Bruton, V Allevato, V Gonzalez-Perez, M Manera, S Avila, A Kovács, N Aghanim, B Altieri, A Amara, L Amendola

Abstract:

We present the Flagship galaxy mock, a simulated catalogue of billions of galaxies designed to support the scientific exploitation of the Euclid mission. Euclid is a medium-class mission of the European Space Agency optimised to determine the properties of dark matter and dark energy on the largest scales of the Universe. It probes structure formation over more than 10 billion years primarily from the combination of weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering data. The breadth of Euclid’s data will also foster a wide variety of scientific analyses. The Flagship simulation was developed to provide a realistic approximation to the galaxies that will be observed by Euclid and used in its scientific exploitation. We ran a state-of-the-art N-body simulation with four trillion particles, producing a lightcone on the fly. From the dark matter particles, we produced a catalogue of 16 billion haloes in one octant of the sky in the lightcone up to redshift z = 3. We then populated these haloes with mock galaxies using a halo occupation distribution and abundance-matching approach, calibrating the free parameters of the galaxy mock against observed correlations and other basic galaxy properties. Modelled galaxy properties include luminosity and flux in several bands, redshifts, positions and velocities, spectral energy distributions, shapes and sizes, stellar masses, star formation rates, metallicities, emission line fluxes, and lensing properties. We selected a final sample of 3.4 billion galaxies with a magnitude cut of HE < 26, where we are complete. We have performed a comprehensive set of validation tests to check the similarity to observational data and theoretical models. In particular, our catalogue is able to closely reproduce the main characteristics of the weak lensing and galaxy clustering samples to be used in the mission main cosmological analysis. Moreover, given its depth and completeness, this new galaxy mock also provides the community with a powerful tool for developing a wide range of scientific analyses beyond the Euclid mission.
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Euclid preparation

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 691 (2024) a319

Authors:

G Congedo, L Miller, AN Taylor, N Cross, CAJ Duncan, T Kitching, N Martinet, S Matthew, T Schrabback, M Tewes, N Welikala, N Aghanim, A Amara, S Andreon, N Auricchio, M Baldi, S Bardelli, R Bender, C Bodendorf, D Bonino, E Branchini, M Brescia, J Brinchmann, S Camera, V Capobianco, C Carbone, VF Cardone, J Carretero, S Casas, FJ Castander, M Castellano, S Cavuoti, A Cimatti, CJ Conselice, L Conversi, Y Copin, F Courbin, HM Courtois, M Cropper, A Da Silva, H Degaudenzi, AM Di Giorgio, J Dinis, F Dubath, X Dupac, M Farina, S Farrens, S Ferriol, P Fosalba, M Frailis, E Franceschi, S Galeotta, B Garilli, B Gillis, C Giocoli, A Grazian, F Grupp, SVH Haugan, MS Holliman, W Holmes, F Hormuth, A Hornstrup, P Hudelot, K Jahnke, E Keihänen, S Kermiche, A Kiessling, M Kilbinger, B Kubik, K Kuijken, M Kümmel, M Kunz, H Kurki-Suonio, S Ligori, PB Lilje, V Lindholm, I Lloro, D Maino, E Maiorano, O Mansutti, O Marggraf, K Markovic, F Marulli, R Massey, S Maurogordato, HJ McCracken, E Medinaceli, S Mei, M Melchior, M Meneghetti, E Merlin, G Meylan, M Moresco, B Morin, L Moscardini, E Munari, S-M Niemi, JW Nightingale, C Padilla, S Paltani, F Pasian, K Pedersen, WJ Percival, V Pettorino, S Pires, G Polenta, M Poncet, LA Popa, L Pozzetti, F Raison, R Rebolo, A Renzi, J Rhodes, G Riccio, E Romelli, M Roncarelli, E Rossetti, R Saglia, D Sapone, B Sartoris, P Schneider, A Secroun, G Seidel, S Serrano, C Sirignano, G Sirri, L Stanco, P Tallada-Crespí, D Tavagnacco, I Tereno, R Toledo-Moreo, F Torradeflot, I Tutusaus, EA Valentijn, L Valenziano, T Vassallo, A Veropalumbo, Y Wang, J Weller, G Zamorani, J Zoubian, E Zucca, A Biviano, M Bolzonella, A Boucaud, E Bozzo, C Burigana, C Colodro-Conde, D Di Ferdinando, J Graciá-Carpio, N Mauri, C Neissner, AA Nucita, Z Sakr, V Scottez, M Tenti, M Viel, M Wiesmann, Y Akrami, V Allevato, S Anselmi, C Baccigalupi, M Ballardini, S Borgani, AS Borlaff, S Bruton, R Cabanac, A Cappi, CS Carvalho, G Castignani, T Castro, G Cañas-Herrera, KC Chambers, AR Cooray, J Coupon, S Davini, G De Lucia, G Desprez, S Di Domizio, H Dole, A Díaz-Sánchez, JA Escartin Vigo, S Escoffier, I Ferrero, F Finelli, L Gabarra, J García-Bellido, E Gaztanaga, F Giacomini, G Gozaliasl, D Guinet, A Hall, H Hildebrandt, S Ilić, A Jimenez Muñoz, S Joudaki, JJE Kajava, V Kansal, D Karagiannis, CC Kirkpatrick, L Legrand, J Macias-Perez, G Maggio, M Magliocchetti, R Maoli, M Martinelli, CJAP Martins, M Maturi, L Maurin, RB Metcalf, M Migliaccio, P Monaco, G Morgante, S Nadathur, L Patrizii, A Peel, A Pezzotta, V Popa, C Porciani, D Potter, M Pöntinen, P Reimberg, P-F Rocci, AG Sánchez, JA Schewtschenko, A Schneider, E Sefusatti, M Sereno, P Simon, A Spurio Mancini, J Stadel, J Steinwagner, G Testera, R Teyssier, S Toft, S Tosi, A Troja, M Tucci, C Valieri, J Valiviita, D Vergani
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The Euclid mission: status after launch and early operations

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 13092 (2024) 130920m-130920m-16

Authors:

R Laureijs, R Vavrek, GD Racca, R Kohley, P Ferruit, V Pettorino, T Bönke, A Calvi, L Gaspar Venancio, L Campos, E Maiorano, O Piersanti, S Prezelus, U Ragnit, P Rosato, C Rosso, H Rozemeijer, A Short, P Strada, D Stramaccioni, M Szafraniec, B Altieri, G Buenadicha, X Dupac, P Gómez Cambronero, K Henares Vilaboa, C Hernandez de la Torre, J Hoar, M Lopez-Caniego Alcarria, P Marcos Arenal, J Martin Fleitas, M Miluzio, A Mora, S Nieto, R Perez Bonilla, P Teodoro Idiago, F Cordero, J Mendes, F Renk, A Rudolph, M Schmidt, J Schwartz, Y Mellier, H Aussel, M Berthé, P Casenove, M Cropper, JC Cuillandre, J Dinis, A Gregorio, K Kuijken, T Maciaszek, L Miller, R Scaramella, M Schirmer, I Tereno, A Zacchei, S Awan, GP Candini, P Liebing, R Nakajima, S Dusini, P Battaglia, E Medinaceli, C Sirignano, I Baldry, C Baugh, F Bernardeau, F Castander, A Cimatti, W Gillard, L Guzzo, H Hoekstra, K Jahnke, T Kitching, E Martin, J Mohr, W Percival, J Rhodes
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The fifth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey: Multi-epoch optical/NIR imaging covering wide and legacy-calibration fields

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 686 (2024) a170

Authors:

Angus H Wright, Konrad Kuijken, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Mario Radovich, Maciej Bilicki, Andrej Dvornik, Fedor Getman, Catherine Heymans, Henk Hoekstra, Shun-Sheng Li, Lance Miller, Nicola R Napolitano, Qianli Xia, Marika Asgari, Massimo Brescia, Hugo Buddelmeijer, Pierre Burger, Gianluca Castignani, Stefano Cavuoti, Jelte de Jong, Alastair Edge, Benjamin Giblin, Carlo Giocoli, Joachim Harnois-Déraps, Priyanka Jalan, Benjamin Joachimi, Anjitha John William, Shahab Joudaki, Arun Kannawadi, Gursharanjit Kaur, Francesco La Barbera, Laila Linke, Constance Mahony, Matteo Maturi, Lauro Moscardini, Szymon J Nakoneczny, Maurizio Paolillo, Lucas Porth, Emanuella Puddu, Robert Reischke, Peter Schneider, Mauro Sereno, HuanYuan Shan, Cristóbal Sifón, Benjamin Stölzner, Tilman Tröster, Edwin Valentijn, Jan Luca van den Busch, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Anna Wittje, Ziang Yan, Ji Yao, Mijin Yoon, Yun-Hao Zhang
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