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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)…
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