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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) will be capable of characterizing exoplanets in reflected light and will demonstrate space technologies essential for future missions to take spectra of Earthlike…

Over the past two decades, thousands of confirmed exoplanets have been detected; the next major challenge is to characterize these other worlds and their stellar systems. Much information on the composition and formation of exoplanets and…

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…

Over the past two decades, thousands of confirmed exoplanets have been detected. The next major challenge is to characterize these other worlds and their stellar systems. Much information on the composition and formation of exoplanets and…

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,…

NASA's next flagship mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 2.4-meter observatory set to launch no later than May 2027. Roman features two instruments: the Wide Field Imager and the Coronagraph Instrument. Roman's Coronagraph…

The Coronagraph Instrument of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman Coronagraph) will be capable of both total intensity and polarization measurements of circumstellar disks. The polarimetric performance is impacted by polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 David S. Doelman , Hanae Belaouchi , A. J. Riggs , Bertrand Mennesson , Mireille Ouellet , Rob G. van Holstein , Jeroen Rietjens , Henk Hoevers , Frans Snik

This document summarizes how far the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument (Roman CGI) will go toward demonstrating high-contrast imaging and spectroscopic requirements for potential future exoplanet direct imaging…

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…

The Roman Space Telescope will have the first advanced coronagraph in space, with deformable mirrors for wavefront control, low-order wavefront sensing and maintenance, and a photon-counting detector. It is expected to be able to detect and…

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…

The Roman Space Telescope will be a critical mission to demonstrate high-contrast imaging technologies allowing for the characterisation of exoplanets in reflected light. It will demonstrate $10^{-7}$ contrast limits or better at 3--9…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Alexis Lau , Élodie Choquet , Lisa Altinier , Iva Laginja , Rémi Soummer , Laurent Pueyo , Nicolas Godoy , Arthur Vigan , David Mary

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument is a high-contrast imager, polarimeter, and spectrometer that will enable the study of exoplanets and circumstellar disks at visible wavelengths ($\sim$550--850~nm) at contrasts…

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a flagship astrophysics mission planned for launch no later than May 2027. The Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) aboard Roman will demonstrate the technology for direct imaging and spectroscopy of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Nanaz Fathpour , Milan Mandic , Joel Shields , Zahidul Rahman , Alfredo Valverde

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), under development by NASA, will investigate possible causes for the phenomenon of dark energy and detect and characterize extra-solar planets. The 2.4 m space telescope has two main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Bijan Nemati , John Krist , Ilya Poberezhskiy , Brian Kern

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will enable the polarimetric imaging of debris disks and inner dust belts in the optical and near-infrared wavelengths, in addition to the high-contrast polarimetric imaging and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-10 Ramya M Anche , Ewan Douglas , Kian Milani , Jaren Ashcraft , Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer , John H Debes , Julien Milli , Justin Hom

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument will be the first space facility equipped with deformable mirrors (DMs). These will lead to reach a contrast of $10^{-8}$ or better in a dark hole between $3-9 \lambda/D$. Post-processing techniques play an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Lisa Altinier , Élodie Choquet , Arthur Vigan , Nicolás Godoy , Alexis Lau

Accurately predicting the performance of coronagraphs and tolerancing optical surfaces for high-contrast imaging requires a detailed accounting of diffraction effects. Unlike simple Fraunhofer diffraction modeling, near and far-field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-17 Ewan S. Douglas , Marshall D. Perrin

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) is an observatory for both wide-field observations and coronagraphy that is scheduled for launch in the mid 2020's. Part of the planned survey is a deep, cadenced field or fields that enable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 David Rubin , Aleksandar Cikota , Greg Aldering , Andy Fruchter , Saul Perlmutter , Masao Sako

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) mission is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. Its weak lensing program is designed to enable unprecedented systematics control in photometric measurements, including shear recovery,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 M. A. Troxel , H. Long , C. M. Hirata , A. Choi , M. Jarvis , R. Mandelbaum , K. Wang , M. Yamamoto , S. Hemmati , P. Capak
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