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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…

[Abridged] The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be one of several flagship survey facilities operating over the next decade starting $\sim$2025. The deep near-IR imaging that Roman will deliver will be highly complementary to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 R. A. Street , S. Gough-Kelly , C. Lam , A. Varela , M. Makler , E. Bachelet , J. R. Lu , N. Abrams , A. Pusack , S. Terry , R. Di~Stefano , Y. Tsapras , M. P. G. Hundertmark , R. J. J. Grand , T. Daylan , J. Sobeck

Studies of strong gravitational lensing in current and upcoming wide and deep photometric surveys, and of stellar kinematics from (integral-field) spectroscopy at increasing redshifts, promise to provide valuable constraints on galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Glenn van de Ven , Rachel Mandelbaum , Charles R. Keeton

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

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 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…

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 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will carry out a wide-field imaging and slitless spectroscopic survey of Type Ia Supernovae to improve our understanding of dark energy. Crucial to this endeavor is obtaining supernova spectra…

One major goal of upcoming large-scale-structure surveys is to constrain dark energy and modified gravity theories. In particular, galaxy clustering and gravitational lensing convergence are probes sensitive to modifications of general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Chen Heinrich , Olivier Doré

The tightest cosmological constraints currently available are obtained by combining complementary data sets. When combining correlated data sets, various astrophysical biases that affect the measurements must be identified and treated.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-15 Yuuki Omori

Metacalibration is a state-of-the-art technique for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear from well-sampled galaxy images. We investigate the accuracy of shear measured with metacalibration from fitting elliptical Gaussians to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Arun Kannawadi , Erik Rosenberg , Henk Hoekstra

This note presents an initial survey design for the Nancy Grace Roman High-latitude Time Domain Survey. This is not meant to be a final or exhaustive list of all the survey strategy choices, but instead presents a viable path towards…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will use its wide-field instrument to carry out a suite of sky surveys in the near infrared. Several of the science objectives of these surveys, such as the measurement of the growth of cosmic structure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Christopher M. Hirata , Christopher Merchant

(Abridged) Weak gravitational lensing induces distortions on the images of background galaxies, and thus provides a direct measure of mass fluctuations in the universe. Since the distortions induced by lensing on the images of background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Bacon , Alexandre Refregier , Douglas Clowe , Richard Ellis

Stellar streams form through the tidal disruption of satellite galaxies or globular clusters orbiting a host galaxy. Globular cluster streams are exciting since they are thin (dynamically cold) and, therefore sensitive to perturbations from…

We present a simulation of the time-domain catalog for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey. This simulation, called the Hourglass simulation, uses the most up-to-date spectral energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 B. M. Rose , M. Vincenzi , R. Hounsell , H. Qu , L. Aldoroty , D. Scolnic , R. Kessler , P. Macias , D. Brout , M. Acevedo , R. C. Chen , S. Gomez , E. Peterson , D. Rubin , M. Sako

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 High Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS) of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide powerful tests of cosmological models through sensitive measurements of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL), and galaxy clustering. As…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kaili Cao , David H. Weinberg , Vivian Miranda , Nihar Dalal , Tim Eifler , Jiachuan Xu , Haley Bowden