CALBLOCK-PV-007: Early-release observations

Observation configuration file

Not applicable

Scheduling

Early-release observations (ERO) of several targets, whenever they fit into the PV plan.

In case of failure: These observations are target-specific, and the target might have a very limited visibility; in this case it should not be repeated, and the remaining PV plan should not be disturbed. If the target has perennial visibility and has high scientific value, it could be appended at the end of PV phase.

Time-critical

No.

Dependencies

CALBLOCK-F-001: Self Calibration

CALBLOCK-F-007: VIS Nonlinearity, PTC, BFE and NISP LED flats

Objective

Early-release targets show-case Euclid’s potential as a survey telescope. The list of potential targets must be safe for Euclid to observe, and should cover a broad range of ecliptic longitudes and latitudes to accomodate launch date uncertainties.

Observations

Good image quality is essential, but we don’t need weak lensing performance, nor fulfill the CalCD-B requirements. Yet the fluxing of all data should be consistent across the focal planes to make the data scientifically valuable. Only the ROS is permitted as an observing sequence.

VIS Cycling: The VIS ROS-inline calibrations follow the nominal wide-survey cycling, as described in ROS: inline VIS calibrations and cadences.

Targets and pointing constraints

Pointing: Straylight suppression as per MOCDA-SYS-003.

Table 47: Targets for early-release observations remain confidential

# ID

R.A.

Dec

Comment

Undisclosed

TBD

TBD

TBD

Instrument configuration

Instrument: Wide survey

Inter-operability constraints

None

In-orbit duration

In-orbit Duration: 24 h

Data volume

20*ROS = 99620 MB, assuming 20 executions of the ROS or 5 targets doable in 24 h.

Processing input

Ground Processing Input Data: All baseline calibration products, can be from ground

Data Description: Standard ROS data

Processing method

Standard SGS processing.

Processing output

Color images for the general public, and potentially photometric catalogs.

Processing tools

L1 pipelines

Validation

At the least good image quality.

Recovery

None.

Quality control parameters

DataModel: https://gitlab.euclid-sgs.uk/

Contact person

Survey Scientist (Roberto Scaramella), Calibration lead