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We present measurements of the linear galaxy bias of H$\alpha$ and [OIII] emission line galaxies (ELGs) for the High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS) of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, using galaxy mocks constructed using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Zhongxu Zhai , Yun Wang , Andrew Benson , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Gustavo Yepes

Cosmological constraints using weak gravitational lensing measurements from the Roman Space Telescope will require a powerful method for modelling uncertainties in the galaxy redshift distribution. In this work, we use an optimized version…

A wide-field near-infrared survey of the Galactic disk and bulge/bar(s) is supported by a large representation of the community of Galactic astronomers. The combination of sensitivity, angular resolution and large field of view make Roman…

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

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's (Roman) Coronagraph Instrument is a technology demonstration equipped to achieve flux contrast levels of up to 10$^{-9}$. This precision depends upon the quality of observations and their resultant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-11 Lindsey Payne , Robert T. Zellem , Marie Ygouf , Bruce Macintosh

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will provide an opportunity to study dark energy with unprecedented precision and accuracy using several techniques, including measurements of high-$z$ Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia, $z \lesssim…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Lauren Aldoroty , Daniel Scolnic , Arun Kannawadi , Rob Knop , Benjamin Rose , Rebekah Hounsell , Michael Troxel

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

Studies of resolved stellar populations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies reveal an amazingly detailed and clear picture of galaxy evolution. Within the Local Group, the ability to probe the stellar populations of small and large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Lachlan Lancaster , Sarah Pearson , Benjamin F. Williams , Kathryn V. Johnston , Tjitske K. Starkenburg , Erin Kado-Fong , Anil C. Seth , Eric F. Bell

Estimating galaxy redshifts is crucial for constraining key physical quantities like those in the equation of state of dark energy. Modern telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, the Euclid Space Telescope, and the NASA Nancy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Alexander Kuhn , Bonnabelle Zabelle , Sara Algeri , Galin L. Jones , Claudia Scarlata

The procedure that is currently employed to allocate time on telescopes is horribly onerous on those unfortunate astronomers who serve on the committees that administer the process, and is in danger of complete collapse as the number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael R. Merrifield , Donald G. Saari

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…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) is NASA's next astrophysics flagship mission, expected to launch in late 2026. As one of Roman's core community science surveys, the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS) will collect…

Recent studies have shown that the proposal peer review processes employed by a variety of organizations to allocate astronomical telescope time produce outcomes that are systematically biased depending on whether proposal's principal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-28 Kristine Spekkens , Nicholas Cofie , Dennis R. Crabtree

The Tri-Agency Cosmological Simulations (TACS) Task Force was formed when Program Managers from the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) expressed an…

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…

We present and validate 20 deg$^2$ of overlapping synthetic imaging surveys representing the full depth of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS) and five years of observations of the Vera C. Rubin…

Estimating the exoplanet scientific productivity of the Habitable Worlds Observatory requires estimating science exposure times. From exoplanet yields to spectral retrievals, exposure times are at the heart of our understanding of the…

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 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

We present a realistic 2000 deg$^{2}$ H$\alpha$ galaxy mock catalog with $1<z<2$ for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope galaxy redshift survey, the High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS), created using Galacticus, a semi-analytical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Zhongxu Zhai , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Yun Wang , Andrew Benson , Gustavo Yepes