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The shear signal required for weak lensing analyses is small, so any detector-level effects which distort astronomical images can contaminate the inferred shear. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will fly a focal plane with 18…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Jahmour J. Givans , Ami Choi , Anna Porredon , Jenna K. C. Freudenburg , Christopher M. Hirata , Robert J. Hill , Christopher Bennett , Roger Foltz , Lane Meier

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will provide an opportunity to study dark energy with unprecedented precision and accuracy using several techniques, including measurements of high-$z$ Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia, $z \lesssim…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Lauren Aldoroty , Daniel Scolnic , Arun Kannawadi , Rob Knop , Benjamin Rose , Rebekah Hounsell , Michael Troxel

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) mission is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. Its weak lensing program is designed to enable unprecedented systematics control in photometric measurements, including shear recovery,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 M. A. Troxel , H. Long , C. M. Hirata , A. Choi , M. Jarvis , R. Mandelbaum , K. Wang , M. Yamamoto , S. Hemmati , P. Capak

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

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 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 (Roman) is an observatory for both wide-field observations and coronagraphy that is scheduled for launch in the mid 2020's. Part of the planned survey is a deep, cadenced field or fields that enable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 David Rubin , Aleksandar Cikota , Greg Aldering , Andy Fruchter , Saul Perlmutter , Masao Sako

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…

This work presents a set of studies addressing the use of the low-dispersion slitless prism on Roman for SN spectroscopy as part of the Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS). We find SN spectral energy distributions including prism…

The ntCT nano tomography system is a geometrically magnifying X-ray microscopy system integrating the recent Excillum NanoTube nano-focus X-ray source and a CdTe photon counting detector from Dectris. The system's modulation transfer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-01 Jonas Graetz , Dominik Müller , Andreas Balles , Christian Fella

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2026 to conduct a wide-field survey of the sky at near-infrared wavelengths. Although Roman is unable to track objects moving at non-sidereal rates, there is recent interest in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Joseph Masiero

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

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

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will perform a Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES) to discover bound exoplanets with semi-major axes greater than 1 au using gravitational microlensing. Roman will even be sensitive to planetary…

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

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, NASA's next flagship observatory, will redefine deep-field galaxy survey with a field of view two orders of magnitude larger than Hubble and an angular resolution of matching quality. These future…

NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) in the second half of this decade, which will allow for a generation-defining measurement of dark energy through multiple probes, including Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). To…

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…

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