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Technical description of the new project called All Sky Automated Survey and results of the tests of our prototype instrument are presented. The ultimate goal of this project is photometric monitoring of the large area of the sky with fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski

NASA's next flagship mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 2.4-meter observatory set to launch no later than May 2027. Roman features two instruments: the Wide Field Imager and the Coronagraph Instrument. Roman's Coronagraph…

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…

A prototype system for the Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) project is presented. PASS is a continuous photometric survey of the entire celestial sphere with a high temporal resolution. Its major objectives are the detection of all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. J. Deeg , R. Alonso , J. A. Belmonte , Keith Horne , K. Alsubai , A. C. Cameron , L. R. Doyle

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

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…

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

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will carry out a wide-field imaging and slitless spectroscopic survey of Type Ia Supernovae to improve our understanding of dark energy. Crucial to this endeavor is obtaining supernova spectra…

This work presents the case for a single-band LSST-matched depth Roman Community Survey over the footprint of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Wide-Fast-Deep to enhance the key science programs of both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Federica B. Bianco , Robert Blum , Andrew Connolly , Melissa Graham , Leanne Guy , Zeljko Ivezic , Steve Ritz , Michael A. Strauss , Tony Tyson

SPACE (SPectroscopic All-sky Cosmic Explorer) is a class-M mission proposed to ESA for the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 call and recently promoted to the next assessment study phase. SPACE will produce the first all-sky spectroscopic survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. Robberto , A. Cimatti , the SPACE Science Team

The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to conduct a generation-defining SN Ia cosmology measurement with its High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS). However, between optical elements, exposure times, cadences, and survey…

The BATSE mission aboard CGRO monitored the whole sky in the 20 keV - 1 MeV energy band continuously from April 1991 until June 2000. Although BATSE had very poor intrinsic angular resolution, the data can be used to survey the entire soft…

We recommend a deeper extension to the High-Latitute Wide Area Survey planned to be conducted by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (\emph{Roman}). While this deeper-tier survey extension can support a range of astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-23 Tansu Daylan , Simon Birrer

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,…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2026, will bring unprecedented precision to measurements of weak gravitational lensing. Because weak lensing is an inherently small signal, it is imperative to minimize systematic…

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

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

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 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

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