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phrosty: A difference imaging pipeline for Roman

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2025-09-24 v1

Abstract

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will provide an opportunity to study dark energy with unprecedented precision using several techniques, including measurements of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia). Here, we present `phrosty` (PHotometry for ROman with SFFT for tYpe Ia supernovae): a difference imaging pipeline for measuring the brightness of transient point sources in the sky, primarily SNe Ia, using Roman data. `phrosty` is written in Python. We implement a GPU-accelerated version of the Saccadic Fast Fourier Transform (SFFT) method for difference imaging.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2509.18544,
  title  = {phrosty: A difference imaging pipeline for Roman},
  author = {Lauren Aldoroty and Lei Hu and Rob Knop and Cole Meldorf and Daniel Scolnic and Shu Liu and W. Michael Wood-Vasey and Marcus Manos and Lucas Erlandson and Rebekah Hounsell and Ben Rose and Masao Sako and Michael Troxel and The Roman Supernova Cosmology Project Infrastructure Team},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.18544},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures

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