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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

Recently it has been shown that precise dose control and an increase in the overall acquisition speed of atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) images can be achieved by acquiring only a small fraction of the…

A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

A key processing step in ground-based astronomy involves combining multiple noisy and blurry exposures to produce an image of the night sky with an improved signal-to-noise ratio. Typically, this is achieved via image coaddition, and can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Yashil Sukurdeep , Tamás Budavári , Andrew J. Connolly , Fausto Navarro

Future weak lensing analyses with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will require highly realistic image simulations to control shear systematics at unprecedented precision. A key limitation of existing approaches is their reliance on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Diana Scognamiglio , Jake H. Lee , Eric Huff , Sergi R. Hildebrandt , Shoubaneh Hemmati

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…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will operate one of the world's largest continuous scientific data systems, sustaining petascale imaging under strict power envelopes. Current radio-interferometric pipelines typically achieve only 4-14% of…

We explore synergies between the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope High Latitude Wide Area Survey (HLWAS) and CMB experiments, specifically Simons Observatory (SO) and CMB-Stage4 (S4). Our simulated analyses include weak lensing,…

Photometric redshifts (photo-$z$'s) will be crucial for studies of galaxy evolution, large-scale structure, and transients with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Deep learning methods leverage pixel-level information from ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ashod Khederlarian , Brett H. Andrews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Tianqing Zhang , Biprateep Dey

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

The Subaru Strategic Program (SSP) is an ambitious multi-band survey using the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the Subaru telescope. The Wide layer of the SSP is both wide and deep, reaching a detection limit of i~26.0 mag. At these depths, it…

Chromatic point-spread-function (PSF) effects arise from differences between the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of stars, used to model the PSF, and galaxies, used to measure shape distortions due to weak gravitational lensing, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Federico Berlfein , Rachel Mandelbaum , Jiachuan Xu , Tianqing Zhang

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

We present realistic forecasts for the constraining power of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on fundamental cosmological parameters, with particular emphasis on the absolute neutrino mass scale, using full-shape analyzes of the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Francesco Spezzati , Yun Wang , Andrew Hearin

Photometric surveys have provided incredible amounts of astronomical information in the form of images. However, astronomical images often contain artifacts that can critically hinder scientific analysis by misrepresenting intensities or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Suchetha Cooray , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Moe Yoda , Kazuo Sorai

We forecast and optimize the cosmological power of various weak-lensing aperture mass ($M_{\rm ap}$) map statistics for future cosmic shear surveys, including peaks, voids, and the full distribution of pixels (1D $M_{\rm ap}$). These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Nicolas Martinet , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Eric Jullo , Peter Schneider

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…

Image Phase Alignment Super-Sampling (ImPASS) is a computational imaging algorithm for converting a sequence of displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The method consists of a unique combination of Phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-01 James N. Caron

We present a tomographic cosmological weak lensing analysis of the HST COSMOS Survey. Applying our lensing-optimized data reduction, principal component interpolation for the ACS PSF, and improved modelling of charge-transfer inefficiency,…