Euclid Explanatory Supplement
Data Release DR1-Foundation
Documentation release 1

European Space Agency (ESA)
and
Euclid Consortium
(November 12, 2026)
Executive summary

The DR1-Foundation data release is the first part of Euclid DR1 Data Release. With DR1-Foundation, the Euclid Consortium and ESA releases the images, catalogs, spectra, redshifts both photometric and spectroscopic over ∼ 1900 deg2 of the Euclid Wide Survey, multiple passes of the Euclid Deep Fields and numerous calibration observations. It encompasses visible and near-infrared space-based imaging and spectroscopic data, ground-based photometry in the u, g, r, i, and z bands, as well as corresponding masks.

Building on this DR1-Foundation, the forthcoming DR1 data release will additionally contain the shape measurements, the selection functions for weak lensing, galaxy clustering and cluster detection, cluster catalogs, and high-level products allowing for the derivation of the cosmological results.