The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument is a critical technology demonstrator for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory. With a predicted visible-light flux ratio detection limit of 1E-8 or better, it will be capable of reaching new areas of parameter space for both gas giant exoplanets and circumstellar disks. It is in the final stages of integration and test at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with an anticipated delivery to payload integration in the coming year. This paper will review the instrument systems, observing modes, potential observing applications, and overall progress toward instrument integration and test.
@article{arxiv.2309.08672,
title = {Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Overview and Status},
author = {Vanessa P. Bailey and Eduardo Bendek and Brian Monacelli and Caleb Baker and Gasia Bedrosian and Eric Cady and Ewan S. Douglas and Tyler Groff and Sergi R. Hildebrandt and N. Jeremy Kasdin and John Krist and Bruce Macintosh and Bertrand Mennesson and Patrick Morrissey and Ilya Poberezhskiy and Hari B. Subedi and Jason Rhodes and Aki Roberge and Marie Ygouf and Robert T. Zellem and Feng Zhao and Neil T. Zimmerman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08672},
year = {2023}
}
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Proceedings of SPIE: Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets XI, vol. 12680 (2023)