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The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will carry out a wide-area survey in the near infrared. A key science objective is the measurement of cosmic structure via weak gravitational lensing. Roman data will be undersampled, which…

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

One challenge for applying current weak lensing analysis tools to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is that individual images will be undersampled. Our companion paper presented an initial application of Imcom - an algorithm that builds…

Weak gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating the matter distribution in the Universe and how it has evolved over cosmic time. The Wide Field Instrument (WFI) on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Katherine Laliotis , Christopher M. Hirata , Emily Macbeth , Kaili Cao

Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses can constrain dark matter models and the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological paradigm at sub-galactic scales. Currently, there is a dearth of images of these rare systems with high signal-to-noise…

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

We investigate the performance of the Metacalibration shear calibration framework using simulated imaging data for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) reference High-Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS). The weak lensing program of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Masaya Yamamoto , M. A. Troxel , Mike Jarvis , Rachel Mandelbaum , Christopher Hirata , Heyang Long , Ami Choi , Tianqing Zhang

We explore synergies between the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and CMB lensing data to constrain dark energy and modified gravity scenarios. A simulated likelihood analysis of the galaxy clustering and weak lensing data from the Roman…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-24 Lukas Wenzl , Cyrille Doux , Chen Heinrich , Rachel Bean , Bhuvnesh Jain , Olivier Doré , Tim Eifler , Xiao Fang

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to constrain cosmological parameters to high precision. However, as shown by the Shear TEsting Programmes (STEP) and GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT) Challenges, measuring galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Tomasz Kacprzak , Joe Zuntz , Barnaby Rowe , Sarah Bridle , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Lisa Voigt , Michael Hirsch

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 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

NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) in the second half of this decade, which will allow for a generation-defining measurement of dark energy through multiple probes, including Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). To…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will implement a devoted weak gravitational lensing program with its High Latitude Wide Area Survey. For cosmological purposes, a critical step in Roman image processing is to combine dithered…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Kaili Cao , Christopher M. Hirata , Katherine Laliotis , Masaya Yamamoto , Emily Macbeth , M. A. Troxel

The weak lensing magnification of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) is sensitive to the clustering of matter, and provides an independent cosmological probe complementary to SN Ia distance measurements. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Zhongxu Zhai , Yun Wang , Dan 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

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 robust estimation of the tiny distortions (shears) of galaxy shapes caused by weak gravitational lensing in the presence of much larger shape distortions due to the point-spread function (PSF) has been widely investigated. One major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Alex Gurvich , Rachel Mandelbaum

Weak lensing experiments are a powerful probe of cosmology through their measurement of the mass distribution of the universe. A challenge for this technique is to control systematic errors that occur when measuring the shapes of distant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexandre Refregier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Sarah Bridle , Barnaby Rowe

For weak gravitational lensing cosmology with the forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, image coaddition, or construction of oversampled images from undersampled ones, is a critical step in the image processing pipeline. In the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Kaili Cao , Christopher M. Hirata , Katherine Laliotis , Masaya Yamamoto , Emily Macbeth , M. A. Troxel
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