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We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program's (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. The photometric pipeline described in this paper produces the…

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 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…

The Space Telescope Imaging Product Simulator (STIPS) is a Python-based package that can be used to simulate scenes from the upcoming \textit{Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope} (\nancy). STIPS is able to generate post-pipeline astronomical…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will be the first large scale coronagraphmission with active wavefront control to be operated in space and will demonstrate technologies essential tofuture missions to image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-26 Kian Milani , Ewan S. Douglas , Jaren Ashcraft

The Roman Space Telescope will be instrumental for characterizing the physical properties of galaxies and understanding their evolution across time. However, a complete view of galaxy star formation activity will only be possible with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Médéric Boquien , Laure Ciesla , Roman Amestoy , Jason Glenn , Carlotta Gruppioni , John-David Smith

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are essential tools for addressing key cosmic questions, including the Hubble tension and the nature of dark energy. Modern surveys are predominantly photometry-based, making the construction of a clean…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Moonzarin Reza , Lifan Wang , Lei Hu

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,…

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

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…

We present arguments for including observations with all of the Wide Field Instrument imaging filters, with the exception of F146, within the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (\emph{Roman}) High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS). Our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Bhavin Joshi , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Sebastian Gomez , Benjamin Rose

(Sub-)millimetre single-dish telescopes feature faster mapping speeds and access larger spatial scales than their interferometric counterparts. However, atmospheric fluctuations tend to dominate their signals and complicate recovery of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Jonas Würzinger , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Thomas W. Morris , Richard Fuchs , Tony Mroczkowski , Lukas Heinrich

The slitless grism on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable deep near-infrared spectroscopy over a wide field of view. We demonstrate Roman's capability to detect Ly$\alpha$ galaxies at $z>7$ using a multi-position-angle (PA)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Isak G. B. Wold , Sangeeta Malhotra , James E. Rhoads , Vithal Tilvi , Austen Gabrielpillai

The High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey (HLTDS) for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will discover thousands of high redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) to make generation-defining cosmological constraints on dark energy. To…

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…

In this paper, we present a scheme to investigate the opacity of the Universe in a cosmological-model-independent way, with the combination of current and future measurements of type Ia supernova sample and galactic-scale strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yu-Bo Ma , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Jingzhao Qi , Tonghua Liu , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng

The revolutionary discovery of dark energy and accelerating cosmic expansion was made with just 42 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in 1999. Since then, large synoptic surveys, e.g., Dark Energy Survey (DES), have observed thousands more SNe Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 Helen Qu

The dark matter subhalo mass function is a promising way of distinguishing between dark matter models. While cold dark matter predicts halos down to Earth-sized masses, other dark matter models typically predict a cut-off in the subhalo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Kris Pardo , Olivier Doré

Massive stars play critical roles for the reionization of the Universe. Individual massive stars at the reionization epoch (z > 6) are too faint to observe and quantify their contributions to reionization. Some massive stars, however,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 Takashi J. Moriya , Robert M. Quimby , Brant E. Robertson

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…