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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…

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

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to revolutionize our scientific understanding of exoplanets, dark matter, dark energy, and general astrophysics, including through an innovative community approach to defining and executing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee , Core Community Survey Definition Committees

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), under development by NASA, will investigate possible causes for the phenomenon of dark energy and detect and characterize extra-solar planets. The 2.4 m space telescope has two main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Bijan Nemati , John Krist , Ilya Poberezhskiy , Brian Kern

We present measurements of the linear galaxy bias of H$\alpha$ and [OIII] emission line galaxies (ELGs) for the High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS) of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, using galaxy mocks constructed using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Zhongxu Zhai , Yun Wang , Andrew Benson , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Gustavo Yepes

We report the direct detection of gamma-ray emission from the Galactic center in the 150-600 keV band using the electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC), which has a wide field of view of 3.1 sr. This represents the first application of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Tomonori Ikeda , Toru Tanimori , Atsushi Takada , Taito Takemura , Kei Yoshikawa , Yuta Nakamura , Ken Onozaka , Mitsuru Abe , Yoshitaka Mizumura

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission is scheduled for launch in 2013. It will operate at L2 for 5 years, rotating slowly to scan the sky so that its two optical telescopes will repeatedly observe more than one billion stars. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alexander Short , Cian Crowley , Jos H. J. de Bruijne , Thibaut Prod'homme

In 1992 the Far-Ultraviolet Space Telescope (FAUST) provided measurements of the ultraviolet (140-180nm) diffuse sky background at high, medium, and low Galactic latitudes. A significant fraction of the detected radiation was found to be of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Adolf N. Witt , Brian C. Friedmann , Timothy P. Sasseen

Estimating galaxy redshifts is crucial for constraining key physical quantities like those in the equation of state of dark energy. Modern telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, the Euclid Space Telescope, and the NASA Nancy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Alexander Kuhn , Bonnabelle Zabelle , Sara Algeri , Galin L. Jones , Claudia Scarlata

The Roman Space Telescope will have the first advanced coronagraph in space, with deformable mirrors for wavefront control, low-order wavefront sensing and maintenance, and a photon-counting detector. It is expected to be able to detect and…

We explore synergies between the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and CMB lensing data to constrain dark energy and modified gravity scenarios. A simulated likelihood analysis of the galaxy clustering and weak lensing data from the Roman…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-24 Lukas Wenzl , Cyrille Doux , Chen Heinrich , Rachel Bean , Bhuvnesh Jain , Olivier Doré , Tim Eifler , Xiao Fang

The High Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS) of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide powerful tests of cosmological models through sensitive measurements of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL), and galaxy clustering. As…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kaili Cao , David H. Weinberg , Vivian Miranda , Nihar Dalal , Tim Eifler , Jiachuan Xu , Haley Bowden

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will implement a devoted weak gravitational lensing program with its High Latitude Wide Area Survey. For cosmological purposes, a critical step in Roman image processing is to combine dithered…

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

We develop a framework for using clustering-based redshift inference (cluster-$z$) to measure the evolving galaxy luminosity function (GLF) and galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) using WISE W1 ($3.4\mu m$) mid-infrared photometry and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Geray S. Karademir , Edward N. Taylor , Chris Blake , Michelle E. Cluver , Thomas H. Jarrett , Dian P. Triani

This document summarizes how far the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument (Roman CGI) will go toward demonstrating high-contrast imaging and spectroscopic requirements for potential future exoplanet direct imaging…

We present a realistic 2000 deg$^{2}$ H$\alpha$ galaxy mock catalog with $1<z<2$ for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope galaxy redshift survey, the High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS), created using Galacticus, a semi-analytical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Zhongxu Zhai , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Yun Wang , Andrew Benson , Gustavo Yepes

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…

The action of a nanoscopic spherically symmetric refractive index profile on a focused Gaussian beam may easily be envisaged as the action of a phase-modifying element, i.e. a lens: Rays traversing the inhomogeneous refractive index field…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-14 Selmke Markus , Braun Marco , Cichos Frank

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…

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) is a key cosmological probe that requires precise measurement of galaxy images to infer shape distortions, or shear, and constrain cosmology. Accurate estimation of the Point Spread Function (PSF) is crucial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Federico Berlfein , Rachel Mandelbaum , Xiangchong Li , Tianqing Zhang , Scott Dodelson , Katarina Markovic