NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY
Abstract
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This opportunity arises in the midst of numerous ground- and space-based surveys that will provide extensive spectroscopy and imaging together covering the entire sky (such as Rubin/LSST, Euclid, UNIONS, SPHEREx, DESI, SDSS-V, GALAH, 4MOST, WEAVE, MOONS, PFS, UVEX, NEO Surveyor, etc.). Roman can uniquely provide uniform high-spatial-resolution (~0.1 arcsec) imaging over the entire sky, vastly expanding the science reach and precision of all of these near-term and future surveys. This imaging will not only enhance other surveys, but also facilitate completely new science. By imaging the full sky over two epochs, Roman can measure the proper motions for stars across the entire Milky Way, probing 100 times fainter than Gaia out to the very edge of the Galaxy. Here, we propose NANCY: a completely public, all-sky survey that will create a high-value legacy dataset benefiting innumerable ongoing and forthcoming studies of the universe. NANCY is a pure expression of Roman's potential: it images the entire sky, at high spatial resolution, in a broad infrared bandpass that collects as many photons as possible. The majority of all ongoing astronomical surveys would benefit from incorporating observations of NANCY into their analyses, whether these surveys focus on nearby stars, the Milky Way, near-field cosmology, or the broader universe.
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@article{arxiv.2306.11784,
title = {NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY},
author = {Jiwon Jesse Han and Arjun Dey and Adrian M. Price-Whelan and Joan Najita and Edward F. Schlafly and Andrew Saydjari and Risa H. Wechsler and Ana Bonaca and David J Schlegel and Charlie Conroy and Anand Raichoor and Alex Drlica-Wagner and Juna A. Kollmeier and Sergey E. Koposov and Gurtina Besla and Hans-Walter Rix and Alyssa Goodman and Douglas Finkbeiner and Abhijeet Anand and Matthew Ashby and Benedict Bahr-Kalus and Rachel Beaton and Jayashree Behera and Eric F. Bell and Eric C Bellm and Segev BenZvi and Leandro Beraldo e Silva and Simon Birrer and Michael R. Blanton and Jamie Bock and Floor Broekgaarden and Dillon Brout and Warren Brown and Anthony G. A. Brown and Esra Bulbul and Rodrigo Calderon and Jeffrey L Carlin and Andreia Carrillo and Francisco Javier Castander and Priyanka Chakraborty and Vedant Chandra and Yi-Kuan Chiang and Yumi Choi and Susan E. Clark and William I. Clarkson and Andrew Cooper and Brendan Crill and Katia Cunha and Emily Cunningham and Julianne Dalcanton and Shany Danieli and Tansu Daylan and Roelof S. de Jong and Joseph DeRose and Biprateep Dey and Mark Dickinson and Mariano Dominguez and Dillon Dong and Tim Eifler and Kareem El-Badry and Denis Erkal and Ivanna Escala and Giovanni Fazio and Annette M. N. Ferguson and Simone Ferraro and Carrie Filion and Jaime E. Forero-Romero and Shenming Fu and Lluís Galbany and Nicolas Garavito-Camargo and Eric Gawiser and Marla Geha and Oleg Y. Gnedin and Sebastian Gomez and Jenny Greene and Julien Guy and Boryana Hadzhiyska and Keith Hawkins and Chen Heinrich and Lars Hernquist and Christopher Hirata and Joseph Hora and Benjamin Horowitz and Danny Horta and Caroline Huang and Xiaosheng Huang and Shan Huanyuan and Jason A. S. Hunt and Rodrigo Ibata and Buell Jannuzi and Kathryn V. Johnston and Michael G. Jones and Stephanie Juneau and Erin Kado-Fong and Venu Kalari and Nitya Kallivayalil and Tanveer Karim and Ryan Keeley and Sergey Khoperskov and Bokyoung Kim and András Kovács and Elisabeth Krause and Kyle Kremer and Anthony Kremin and Alex Krolewski and S. R. Kulkarni and Marine Kuna and Benjamin L'Huillier and Mark Lacy and Ting-Wen Lan and Dustin Lang and Denis Leahy and Jiaxuan Li and Seunghwan Lim and Mercedes López-Morales and Lucas Macri and Manera Marc and Sidney Mau and Patrick J McCarthy and Eithne McDonald and Kristen McQuinn and Aaron Meisner and Gary Melnick and Andrea Merloni and Cléa Millard and Martin Millon and Ivan Minchev and Paulo Montero-Camacho and Catalina Morales-Gutierrez and Nidia Morrell and John Moustakas and Leonidas Moustakas and Zachary Murray and Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil and GyuChul Myeong and Adam D. Myers and Ethan Nadler and Felipe Navarete and Melissa Ness and David L. Nidever and Robert Nikutta and Chamba Nushkia and Knut Olsen and Andrew B. Pace and Fabio Pacucci and Nikhil Padmanabhan and David Parkinson and Sarah Pearson and Eric W. Peng and Andreea O. Petric and Andreea Petric and Bridget Ratcliffe and Emami Razieh and Thomas Reiprich and Mehdi Rezaie and Marina Ricci and R. Michael Rich and Hannah Richstein and Alexander H. Riley and Constance Rockosi and Graziano Rossi and Mara Salvato and Lado Samushia and Javier Sanchez and David J Sand and Robyn E Sanderson and Nikolina Šarčević and Arnab Sarkar and Alessandro Savino and Francois Schweizer and Arman Shafieloo and Yang Shengqi and Joseph Shields and Nora Shipp and Josh Simon and Malgorzata Siudek and Zou Siwei and Zachary Slepian and Verne Smith and Jennifer Sobeck and Sangmo Tony Sohn and Debopam Som and Joshua S. Speagle and David Spergel and Robert Szabo and Ting Tan and Christopher Theissen and Erik Tollerud and Volker Tolls and Kim-Vy Tran and Kabelo Tsiane and William D. Vacca and Monica Valluri and TonyLouis Verberi and Jack Warfield and Noah Weaverdyck and Benjamin Weiner and Daniel Weisz and Andrew Wetzel and Martin White and Christina C. Williams and Scott Wolk and John F. Wu and Rosemary Wyse and Justina R. Yang and Dennis Zaritsky and Ioana A. Zelko and Zhou Zhimin and Catherine Zucker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11784},
year = {2023}
}
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Submitted to the call for white papers for the Roman Core Community Survey (June 16th, 2023), and to the Bulletin of the AAS