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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This opportunity arises in the midst of numerous ground- and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Jiwon Jesse Han , Arjun Dey , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Joan Najita , Edward F. Schlafly , Andrew Saydjari , Risa H. Wechsler , Ana Bonaca , David J Schlegel , Charlie Conroy , Anand Raichoor , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Juna A. Kollmeier , Sergey E. Koposov , Gurtina Besla , Hans-Walter Rix , Alyssa Goodman , Douglas Finkbeiner , Abhijeet Anand , Matthew Ashby , Benedict Bahr-Kalus , Rachel Beaton , Jayashree Behera , Eric F. Bell , Eric C Bellm , Segev BenZvi , Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Simon Birrer , Michael R. Blanton , Jamie Bock , Floor Broekgaarden , Dillon Brout , Warren Brown , Anthony G. A. Brown , Esra Bulbul , Rodrigo Calderon , Jeffrey L Carlin , Andreia Carrillo , Francisco Javier Castander , Priyanka Chakraborty , Vedant Chandra , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Yumi Choi , Susan E. Clark , William I. Clarkson , Andrew Cooper , Brendan Crill , Katia Cunha , Emily Cunningham , Julianne Dalcanton , Shany Danieli , Tansu Daylan , Roelof S. de Jong , Joseph DeRose , Biprateep Dey , Mark Dickinson , Mariano Dominguez , Dillon Dong , Tim Eifler , Kareem El-Badry , Denis Erkal , Ivanna Escala , Giovanni Fazio , Annette M. N. Ferguson , Simone Ferraro , Carrie Filion , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Shenming Fu , Lluís Galbany , Nicolas Garavito-Camargo , Eric Gawiser , Marla Geha , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Sebastian Gomez , Jenny Greene , Julien Guy , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Keith Hawkins , Chen Heinrich , Lars Hernquist , Christopher Hirata , Joseph Hora , Benjamin Horowitz , Danny Horta , Caroline Huang , Xiaosheng Huang , Shan Huanyuan , Jason A. S. Hunt , Rodrigo Ibata , Buell Jannuzi , Kathryn V. Johnston , Michael G. Jones , Stephanie Juneau , Erin Kado-Fong , Venu Kalari , Nitya Kallivayalil , Tanveer Karim , Ryan Keeley , Sergey Khoperskov , Bokyoung Kim , András Kovács , Elisabeth Krause , Kyle Kremer , Anthony Kremin , Alex Krolewski , S. R. Kulkarni , Marine Kuna , Benjamin L'Huillier , Mark Lacy , Ting-Wen Lan , Dustin Lang , Denis Leahy , Jiaxuan Li , Seunghwan Lim , Mercedes López-Morales , Lucas Macri , Manera Marc , Sidney Mau , Patrick J McCarthy , Eithne McDonald , Kristen McQuinn , Aaron Meisner , Gary Melnick , Andrea Merloni , Cléa Millard , Martin Millon , Ivan Minchev , Paulo Montero-Camacho , Catalina Morales-Gutierrez , Nidia Morrell , John Moustakas , Leonidas Moustakas , Zachary Murray , Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil , GyuChul Myeong , Adam D. Myers , Ethan Nadler , Felipe Navarete , Melissa Ness , David L. Nidever , Robert Nikutta , Chamba Nushkia , Knut Olsen , Andrew B. Pace , Fabio Pacucci , Nikhil Padmanabhan , David Parkinson , Sarah Pearson , Eric W. Peng , Andreea O. Petric , Andreea Petric , Bridget Ratcliffe , Emami Razieh , Thomas Reiprich , Mehdi Rezaie , Marina Ricci , R. Michael Rich , Hannah Richstein , Alexander H. Riley , Constance Rockosi , Graziano Rossi , Mara Salvato , Lado Samushia , Javier Sanchez , David J Sand , Robyn E Sanderson , Nikolina Šarčević , Arnab Sarkar , Alessandro Savino , Francois Schweizer , Arman Shafieloo , Yang Shengqi , Joseph Shields , Nora Shipp , Josh Simon , Malgorzata Siudek , Zou Siwei , Zachary Slepian , Verne Smith , Jennifer Sobeck , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Debopam Som , Joshua S. Speagle , David Spergel , Robert Szabo , Ting Tan , Christopher Theissen , Erik Tollerud , Volker Tolls , Kim-Vy Tran , Kabelo Tsiane , William D. Vacca , Monica Valluri , TonyLouis Verberi , Jack Warfield , Noah Weaverdyck , Benjamin Weiner , Daniel Weisz , Andrew Wetzel , Martin White , Christina C. Williams , Scott Wolk , John F. Wu , Rosemary Wyse , Justina R. Yang , Dennis Zaritsky , Ioana A. Zelko , Zhou Zhimin , Catherine Zucker

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will provide an opportunity to study dark energy with unprecedented precision using several techniques, including measurements of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia). Here, we present `phrosty`…

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…

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

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

Strong gravitational lensing is an ideal tool for mapping the distribution of dark matter and for testing the values of cosmological parameters. Forthcoming surveys such as Euclid and the Rubin Observatory LSST should increase the number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-30 Charles Weiner , Stephen Serjeant , Chris Sedgwick

Weak gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating the matter distribution in the Universe and how it has evolved over cosmic time. The Wide Field Instrument (WFI) on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Katherine Laliotis , Christopher M. Hirata , Emily Macbeth , Kaili Cao

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's (Roman) Coronagraph Instrument is a technology demonstration equipped to achieve flux contrast levels of up to 10$^{-9}$. This precision depends upon the quality of observations and their resultant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-11 Lindsey Payne , Robert T. Zellem , Marie Ygouf , Bruce Macintosh

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct a High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS) over a large volume at high redshift, using the near-IR grism (1.0-1.93 $\mu$m, $R=435-865$) and the 0.28 deg$^2$ wide field camera. We present a…

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…

We investigate the performance of the Metacalibration shear calibration framework using simulated imaging data for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) reference High-Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS). The weak lensing program of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Masaya Yamamoto , M. A. Troxel , Mike Jarvis , Rachel Mandelbaum , Christopher Hirata , Heyang Long , Ami Choi , Tianqing Zhang

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

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…

This note presents an initial survey design for the Nancy Grace Roman High-latitude Time Domain Survey. This is not meant to be a final or exhaustive list of all the survey strategy choices, but instead presents a viable path towards…

The weak lensing magnification of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) is sensitive to the clustering of matter, and provides an independent cosmological probe complementary to SN Ia distance measurements. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Zhongxu Zhai , Yun Wang , Dan Scolnic

We present a trade study of possible ultra-deep surveys with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, optimizing the depth-area-filter parameter space for high-redshift galaxy science. Using a mock galaxy catalog derived from a 2 sq. degree…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will use its wide-field instrument to carry out a suite of sky surveys in the near infrared. Several of the science objectives of these surveys, such as the measurement of the growth of cosmic structure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Christopher M. Hirata , Christopher Merchant

We predict the surface density and clustering bias of H$\alpha$ emitting galaxies for the Euclid and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope redshift surveys using a new calibration of the GALFORM galaxy formation model. We generate 3000 GALFORM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Makun Madar , Carlton Baugh , Difu Shi

The modulation transfer function (MTF) is widely used to characterise the performance of optical systems. Measuring it is costly and it is thus rarely available for a given lens specimen. Instead, MTFs based on simulations or, at best, MTFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Matthias Bauer , Valentin Volchkov , Michael Hirsch , Bernhard Schölkopf

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, slated to launch in October 2026, will serve a critical role in the characterization and threat assessment of near-Earth Objects (NEOs), thus contributing to national and international planetary…