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Euclid is a complex mission, consisting of a spacecraft and scientific instruments, a massive cosmological simulation, and large and complex data processing segment to turn instrumental data into scientific meaning. Now, one year after launch, the Euclid Consortium has published a set of five reference papers, providing both the scientific background and an up to date description of the instruments and simulations. Paper 1 (Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission, Euclid Collaboration: Mellier et al. 2024) is giving a full overview of the Euclid mission after launch, ranging from the overall background, the satellite and instruments, the surveys, and finally introduces both the cosmology diagnostics as well as astronomy projects envisioned with Euclid.

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In our mini-series about the Euclid Consortium’s set of new reference papers we are now turning to instrument descriptions: Paper 2 (Euclid. II. The VIS Instrument, Euclid Collaboration: Cropper et al. 2024) describe the VIS instrument, papers 3 and 4 (Euclid. III. The NISP Instrument, Euclid Collaboration: Jahnke et al.; Euclid. IV. The NISP Calibration Unit, Euclid Collaboration: Hormuth et al.) the NISP instrument.

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