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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (``Roman'') is a 2.4m space telescope scheduled for a 2026 launch. The Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) on Roman is a technology-demonstration instrument with a coronagraph and, for the first time in space,…

In the next decade, transient searches from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will increase the sample of known Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) from $\sim10^3$ to $10^5$. With this reduction of statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. D. R. Pierel , D. O. Jones , M. Dai , D. Q. Adams , R. Kessler , S. Rodney , M. R. Siebert , R. J. Foley , W. D. Kenworthy , D. Scolnic

Strong gravitational lensing is an ideal tool for mapping the distribution of dark matter and for testing the values of cosmological parameters. Forthcoming surveys such as Euclid and the Rubin Observatory LSST should increase the number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-30 Charles Weiner , Stephen Serjeant , Chris Sedgwick

We simulate the emission line galaxy properties for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope by creating a 4 deg$^{2}$ galaxy mock catalog using Galacticus, a semi-analytic model (SAM) for galaxy formation and evolution. The simulated galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-28 Zhongxu Zhai , Yun Wang , Andrew Benson , James Colbert , Micaela Bagley , Alaina Henry , Ivano Baronchelli

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, slated to launch in October 2026, will serve a critical role in the characterization and threat assessment of near-Earth Objects (NEOs), thus contributing to national and international planetary…

A deep, space-based, all-sky near-infrared survey carried out with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would constitute a foundational astronomical infrastructure for decades to come. In this white paper, we present a concrete and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Jiwon Jesse Han , Anirudh Chiti , Kai-Feng Chen , Keith Bechtol , Andrea Bellini , Robert Benjamin , Adam Bolton , Ana Bonaca , Alex Broughton , Esra Bulbul , Susan Clark , Charlie Conroy , Suchetha Cooray , John Franklin Crenshaw , Tansu Daylan , Arjun Dey , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Tim Eifler , Kareem El-Badry , Richard M. Feder , Peter Ferguson , Shenming Fu , Sebastian Gomez , Ryan Hickox , Christopher Hirata , Easton J. Honaker , Xiaosheng Huang , Alexander P. Ji , Michael Liu , Kevin A. McKinnon , Geoffrey Mo , Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Alessandro Savino , David J. Schlegel , Nora Shipp , Jay Strader , Federica Tarsitano , Adrien C. R. Thob , Kim-Vy Tran , Roeland P. van der Marel , Feige Wang , Risa Wechsler , Daniel R. Weisz , Dennis Zaritsky , Tianqing Zhang , Shreya Anand , Amirnezam Amiri , Abhijeet Anand , Matthew L. N. Ashby , Finian Ashmead , Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Aliza Beverage , Michael R. Blanton , Warren R. Brown , Anthony G. A. Brown , Priyanka Chakraborty , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Jose M. Diego , Denis Erkal , Simone Ferraro , Lluís Galbany , Marla Geha , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Lars Hernquist , Jason A. S. Hunt , Valentin D. Ivanov , Venu Kalari , Nitya Kallivayalil , András Kovács , Kyle Kremer , Ting-Wen Lan , Denis Leahy , Jiaxuan Li , Ivan Minchev , GyuChul Myung , Ethan O. Nadler , Joan R. Najita , Melissa K. Ness , Jacob Nibauer , Fabio Pacucci , David Parkinson , Ekta Patel , R. Michael Rich , Marina Ricci , Graziano Rossi , Nikolina Sarcevic , Arnab Sarkar , Andrew K. Saydjari , Arman Shafieloo , Zachary Slepian , Sangmo Tony Sohn , David N. Spergel , Róbert Szabó , Christina C. Williams , John F. Wu

We describe the software package $\texttt{ESpRESSO}$ - [E]xtragalactic [Sp]ectroscopic [R]oman [E]mulator and [S]imulator of [S]ynthetic [O]bjects, created to emulate the slitless spectroscopic observing modes of the Nancy Grace Roman Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Austen Gabrielpillai , Isak G. B. Wold , Sangeeta Malhotra , James Rhoads , Guangjun Gao , Mainak Singha , Anton M. Koekemoer

The Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will demonstrate the high-contrast technology necessary for visible-light exoplanet imaging and spectroscopy from space via direct imaging of Jupiter-size planets and…

The High Latitude Survey of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to measure the positions and shapes of hundreds of millions of galaxies in an area of 2220 deg$^2$. This survey will provide high-quality weak lensing data with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Chien-Hao Lin , Rachel Mandelbaum , M. A. Troxel , Christopher M. Hirata , Mike Jarvis

The shear signal required for weak lensing analyses is small, so any detector-level effects which distort astronomical images can contaminate the inferred shear. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will fly a focal plane with 18…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Jahmour J. Givans , Ami Choi , Anna Porredon , Jenna K. C. Freudenburg , Christopher M. Hirata , Robert J. Hill , Christopher Bennett , Roger Foltz , Lane Meier

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will be the first large scale coronagraphmission with active wavefront control to be operated in space and will demonstrate technologies essential tofuture missions to image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-26 Kian Milani , Ewan S. Douglas , Jaren Ashcraft

The Coronagraphic Instrument onboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is an important stepping stone towards the characterization of habitable, rocky exoplanets. In a technology demonstration phase conducted during the first 18 months…

Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) as a standard candle is an ideal tool to measure cosmic distance and expansion history of the Universe. Here we investigate the SN Ia photometric measurement in the China Space Station Telescope Ultra Deep Field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-24 Minglin Wang , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Haitao Miao , Xuelei Chen , Hu Zhan

We present arguments for including observations with all of the Wide Field Instrument imaging filters, with the exception of F146, within the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (\emph{Roman}) High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS). Our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Bhavin Joshi , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Sebastian Gomez , Benjamin Rose

Massive stars play critical roles for the reionization of the Universe. Individual massive stars at the reionization epoch (z > 6) are too faint to observe and quantify their contributions to reionization. Some massive stars, however,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 Takashi J. Moriya , Robert M. Quimby , Brant E. Robertson

The analysis of current and future cosmological surveys of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at high-redshift depends on the accurate photometric classification of the SN events detected. Generating realistic simulations of photometric SN surveys…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will conduct a Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES) to discover bound and free-floating exoplanets using gravitational microlensing. Roman should be sensitive to lenses with mass down to ~ 0.02…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Matthew Lastovka , B. Scott Gaudi , Samson A. Johnson , Matthew T. Penny , Eamonn Kerins , Nicholas J. Rattenbury

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will survey a large area of the sky at near-infrared wavelengths with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI). The performance of the 18 WFI H4RG-10 detectors will need to be well-characterized and regularly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-04 Phani Datta Velicheti , John F. Wu , Andreea Petric

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2026 to conduct a wide-field survey of the sky at near-infrared wavelengths. Although Roman is unable to track objects moving at non-sidereal rates, there is recent interest in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Joseph Masiero

We present the cosmological analysis of 752 photometrically-classified Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) obtained from the full Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova (SN) Survey, supplemented with host-galaxy spectroscopy from the…