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Launching a starshade to rendezvous with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would provide the first opportunity to directly image the habitable zones of nearby sunlike stars in the coming decade. A report on the science and feasibility…

The next generation of high-precision astrometry is rapidly approaching thanks to ongoing and upcoming missions like Euclid, LSST, and RST. We present a new tool (available at https://github.com/KevinMcK95/gaia_roman_astrometry) to simulate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Kevin A. McKinnon , Roeland P. van der Marel

Within the next few years, the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be gathering data for the High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS) that will be used to significantly improve the Type Ia supernova measurement of the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Richard Kessler , Rebekah Hounsell , Bhavin Joshi , David Rubin , Masao Sako , Rebecca Chen , Vivian Miranda , Benjamin. M. Rose

We motivate the cosmological science case of measuring Type Ia supernovae with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as part of the High Latitude Time Domain Survey. We discuss previously stated requirements for the science, and a baseline…

This paper develops a general observing strategy for missions performing all-sky surveys, where a single spacecraft maps the celestial sphere subject to realistic constraints. The strategy is flexible such that targeted observations and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-11 Sara C. Spangelo , Raj M. Katti , Stephen C. Unwin , Jamie J. Bock

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

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

We describe the scientific motivations, the mission concept and the instrumentation of SPACE, a class-M mission proposed for concept study at the first call of the ESA Cosmic-Vision 2015-2025 planning cycle. SPACE aims to produce the…

We simulate the scientific performance of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) High Latitude Survey (HLS) on dark energy and modified gravity. The 1.6 year HLS Reference survey is currently envisioned to image 2000 deg$^2$ in…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's (RST) Wide Field Imager (WFI) is equipped with a slitless prism that can be used for spectroscopic discovery and follow-up of explosive transients at high redshift as part of its High Latitude Time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Greg Aldering , David Rubin , Benjamin Rose , Rebekah Hounsell , Saul Perlmutter , Susana Deustua

The High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS) is the reference baseline spectroscopic survey for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope, measuring redshifts of $\sim 10$M H$\alpha$ emission line galaxies over a $2000$ deg$^2$ footprint at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Kevin S. McCarthy , Zhongxu Zhai , Yun Wang

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a flagship astrophysics mission planned for launch no later than May 2027. The Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) aboard Roman will demonstrate the technology for direct imaging and spectroscopy of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Nanaz Fathpour , Milan Mandic , Joel Shields , Zahidul Rahman , Alfredo Valverde

The Roman Galactic Plane Survey (RGPS) is a 700-hour program approved for early definition as a community-designed General Astrophysics Survey. It was selected following a proposal call for science programs that would benefit from an early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-12 Roman Galactic Plane Survey Definition Committee

An overview is given of the Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) project. The primary goal of PASS is the detection of all transiting giant planets in the entire sky, complete for stellar systems of magnitudes ~ 5.5-10.5. Since the sample stars…

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,…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the largest and most ambitious optical CCD survey undertaken to date. It will ultimately map out one quarter of the sky with precision photometry in five bands, high-quality astrometry, and spectra of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eva K. Grebel

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) will be capable of characterizing exoplanets in reflected light and will demonstrate space technologies essential for future missions to take spectra of Earthlike…

SkyMapper is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated, wide-field survey telescopes. The 1.3m SkyMapper telescope features a 5.7 square degree field-of-view Cassegrain imager and will see first light in late 2007. The primary goal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. C. Keller , B. P. Schmidt , M. S Bessell

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…