Thank You ROTAC 

Thank you to the ROTAC for all of your hard work over the past six months. Your contributions have served as a critical part of the mission and, in particular, the community definition process. 

New Videos: Core Community Surveys

STScI's Office of Public Outreach (OPO) has created some inspiring new videos to illustrate the themes and goals of Roman's recently announced ROTAC recommendations for the Core Community Survey (and the Galactic Plane Survey as well!).

Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey

High Latitude Time Domain Survey

High Latitude Wide Area Survey

Galactic Plane Survey

First Look Observations (FLO): Announcement of Intent for a Call for Community Input 

Roman will provide the astronomical community with an unparalleled opportunity to conduct high-resolution, wide-field surveys at near-infrared wavelengths. Roman will also demonstrate space-based, visible-band coronagraphy with active optics for the first time. Roman’s First Look Observations will be among the first images and spectra taken during observatory commissioning. They will represent Roman’s debut to the world and are intended to have high-impact and broad appeal for a public audience.

The NASA Roman Project welcomes the collective expertise of the astronomical community and invites suggestions for First Look Observations. They should showcase key capabilities of the instruments and observatory. As with all Roman data, the observations will become public at the end of commissioning. There will be no grant funding or pre-release access to the data, but your input will be a valued contribution to Roman’s mission. Final selection will be driven by multiple factors, including observational constraints.

The Roman mission will issue a Call for Community Input on Wide Field Instrument First Look Observations in early June 2025. The information requested will include the target name or designation, the location, and a short description of why the target is a good candidate for First Look Observations. Full details will be provided in the Call.

A separate, forthcoming White Paper call issued by the Coronagraph team will solicit community input on Coronagraph observations. Full details will be provided in the White Paper Call.

Roman Releases Detailed Five Year Mission Plan

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared recently the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct after launch. The survey design recommendations were presented by the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC) and represents the culmination of ~20 years of work by many people.

Roman will conduct three large and powerful Core Community Surveys as part of its observing program: the High Latitude Wide Area and Time Domain Surveys, and the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. These observation programs are designed to investigate some of the most profound mysteries in astrophysics while enabling expansive cosmic exploration that will revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Full article: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasas-roman-mission-shares-detailed-plans-to-scour-skies/
ROTAC Report: https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/ccs/ROTAC-Report-20250424-v1.pdf
ROTAC Presentation: https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/roman/comm_forum/forum_19/ROTAC_Report_Presentation.pdf 
ROTAC Recording: https://youtu.be/IvEjdBd-g1c

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Sorry for the delay in your weekly blogs, I was on vacation last week. What did I miss!?

Roman Releases Detailed Five Year Mission Plan

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct after launch. The survey design recommendations were presented by the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC) and represents the culmination of ~20 years of work by many people.

Roman will conduct three large and powerful Core Community Surveys as part of its observing program: the High Latitude Wide Area and Time Domain Surveys, and the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. These observation programs are designed to investigate some of the most profound mysteries in astrophysics while enabling expansive cosmic exploration that will revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Full article: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasas-roman-mission-shares-detailed-plans-to-scour-skies/
ROTAC Report: https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/ccs/ROTAC-Report-20250424-v1.pdf
ROTAC Presentation: https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/roman/comm_forum/forum_19/ROTAC_Report_Presentation.pdf 
ROTAC Recording: Coming Soon

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Announcement of Recommendations for the Roman Core Community Surveys

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct three large and powerful Core Community Surveys as part of its observing program: the High Latitude Wide Area and Time Domain Surveys, and the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. The community process for defining Roman’s Core Community Surveys is moving into its next phase. The Core Community Survey definition committees provided reports outlining multiple options for each survey, which were delivered to the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC). The ROTAC has evaluated the implementation options for each of the three surveys, along with the scientific promise of the yet-to-be defined time for General Astrophysics Surveys. The ROTAC has provided a recommendation to the Roman Project on the implementation of the Core Community Surveys and on the time allocation for General Astrophysics Surveys. We invite you to the next virtual Roman Community Forum, on Thursday, April 24 at 9am PDT/12pm EDT, to hear from the chairs of the ROTAC about their recommendations.

The Roman Community Forum is a virtual meeting that provides regular updates on the Roman Mission and the science it will enable. The schedule for the meeting and connection details are included below. Details on joining, as well as a posting of the recorded meeting, will also be found on the Roman Community Forum page: https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/roman/comm_forum/

Please remember, you can subscribe to the official Roman calendar here (if you have trouble accessing this page, please be sure to log-in and/or sign up for the Roman Forum).

Join Information

Meeting link:
https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=m6c43b9ace961e138ff4677ef0087d3f9 

Meeting number:
2819 232 9085

Password:
jTfd3D4cf$3 (58333342 when dialing from a phone or video system)

Agenda:
https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/roman/comm_forum/

Join by video system

Dial 28192329085@nasaenterprise.webex.com
You can also dial 207.182.190.20 and enter your meeting number.

Join by phone

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Euclid Q1 Release Data Products Webinar - Register by Friday, April 11

From Tiffany Meshkat at the SSC:

Interested in Euclid Q1 data?

ENSCI will host a second tutorial on Euclid Q1 data on April 17th, 11 am to 1 pm Pacific Time, on Zoom. The webinar will include the same topics as the first webinar -- an introduction to Q1 data products, a brief tour of the Q1 data archive at IRSA, walkthrough of python notebooks demonstrating how to access and visualize a range of Euclid data, and questions. Click here to register for the webinar by Friday, April 11.

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Hubble Cycle 33 Initiative Due Next Week: Roman Preparatory Science (RPS)

Roman expects to have its first call for proposals in Fall 2025. The Hubble Space Telescope’s Cycle 33 proposals, due April 10, 2025, include a new initiative for Roman Preparatory Science (RPS) programs. The RPS Initiative is designed to encourage observations with Hubble that complement and enhance the scientific impact of Roman observations, or that are essential to achieving critical science goals of future Roman programs. Find out more here.

JWST Summer School Application Due Today

Applications Now Open!

JWST Summer School: High Redshift Transients with JWST
August 4-15, 2025
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD USA

STScI is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the JWST Summer School: High-Redshift Transients with JWST. The JWST Summer School will be held August 4-15, 2025 and will host approximately 50 in-person participants. We encourage early career scientists (including undergraduate and graduate students), new JWST researchers, as well as any researchers new to the high-z transient field to apply.

The school will last two weeks: the first week will focus on high-z transient science, featuring lectures relevant to the field; the second week will focus on observational and analytical techniques, where participants will learn to create a JWST program from scratch, to run the calibration pipeline, and to generate high-level data products necessary to analyze and exploit JWST high-z transient data. A preliminary agenda for the Summer School has now been added to the event website.

Please visit the application portal to submit an application by April 4, 2025, 11:59pm ET. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by April 25, 2025. Virtual participation will be possible during the first week of the school only. Virtual participants do not need to apply, but are still required to register. Registration will open on April 28, 2025 after applicants have been notified.

Important Dates:

• March 6       Application Submission Opens
• April 4          Application Submission Closes
• April 25        Application Notifications Sent
• April 28        Registration Opens
• June 27        Registration Closes

For more information please visit our event website or contact the conference organizers: JWSTSummer2025@stsci.edu

Science Organizing Committee
Mic Bagley (NASA), Stacey Bright (STScI), Caitlin Casey (University of California Santa Barbara), Christa DeCoursey (University of Arizona, Tucson), Jean Dupuis (Canadian Space Agency), Chris Evans (ESA), Macarena Garcia Marin (STScI/ESA), Jeyhan Kartaltepe (Rochester Institute of Technology), Patrick Kelly (University of Minnesota), Dale Kocevski (Colby College), Erini Lambrides (NASA), Mercedes Lopez Morales (STScI), Takashi Moriya (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Robert Quimby (San Diego State University), Neill Reid (STScI), Armin Rest (STScI), Lou Strolger (STScI), Haojing Yan (University of Missouri)

Invitation to AAS 246 Splinter Session (Proposed): Roman Spectroscopic Data Challenge – Part 2 

In a message from Tri Astraatmadja:

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to participate in our splinter session at AAS 246, focused on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its slitless spectroscopy capabilities. This session is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and early-career researchers interested in learning about grism and prism spectroscopy in preparation for Roman’s first call for proposals in fall 2025.   

Session Overview: 

This session is the second part of the Roman Spectroscopic Data Challenge, building on concepts introduced in Data Challenge 1. Whether or not you participated in the first challenge, this session will introduce key ideas in spectral extraction techniques and the unique aspects of Roman spectroscopy. 

Topics Covered: 

- Introduction to grism and prism spectroscopy and their differences 
- Challenges in prism spectral extraction, including optimal extraction and slit loss corrections 
- Key concepts in 2D spectral data interpretation 

 Who Should Attend? 

If you’re interested in learning the basics of slitless spectroscopy and understanding the scientific potential of Roman’s spectral data, this session is for you. No prior experience with slitless spectroscopy is required. 

We look forward to your participation at AAS 246. Please feel free to reach out to spqrdc332@gmail.com should you have any questions.

Best regards,
SPQR team

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

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Abstracts Due Today: “Cosmic Cartography with Roman” Conference at STScI

Cosmic Cartography with Roman:

Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

July 14th – July 18th, 2025

Abstracts Due Today, March 28, 2025

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is now open for contributed talks and posters at this year's annual Roman Science Conference, "Cosmic Cartography with Roman," to be held July 14th-18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore. The conference will explore the fundamental questions Roman will address by mapping the Universe. Abstracts will be accepted until March 28, 2025.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman's accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of dark energy and dark matter with galaxy formation and evolution. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, Simons Observatory, and SPT. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Attendance: The conference will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.

Important dates
Feb 03, 2025        Abstract Submission Opens
March 28, 2025   Abstract Submission Closes
Apr 14, 2025        Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025        Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025   Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Dillon Brout (Boston University), Tzu-Ching Chang (JPL), Martín Crocce (Institute of Space Sciences, ICE, CSIC), Jo Dunkley (Princeton University), Agnès Ferté (SLAC), Peter Ferguson (University of Washington), Andrew Hearin (Argonne National Lab), Henk Hoekstra (Leiden University), Michelle Ntamptaka (STScI), Hee-Jong Seo (Ohio University), Tomomi Sunayama (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics).

SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC), Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab).

LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI).

Please visit our webpage for all the details, including upcoming deadlines.  

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee

ROTAC Face-to-Face Meeting as It Nears Completion

Over the past few months, the Roman Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC) has been meeting weekly to discuss the Core Community Survey (CCS) Definition Committees’ recommendations.  Last week (March 20-21), the ROTAC had a face-to-face meeting at STScI to have in depth discussions as they near completion on their recommended implementation plans, which are expected this Spring. They also had some time for a little field trip to see the telescope under construction at the NASA Goddard clean room. Pics below. Stay tuned for more ROTAC updates in the near future.

Inside the NASA GSFC Clean Room

This week, the Solar Array Sun Shield, or SASS, test panels have joined Roman’s outer shell! After environmental testing, they will be swapped for the flight SASS.

Full Story: https://t.co/8pJESx0CMz

BONUS: Below is a video from Roman Senior Project Scientist Julie McEnery showing the GSFC clean room on March 25. The clean tent is being lifted over OSD (Outer Barrel assembly, Solar Array Sunshield, Deployable Aperture cover). This will keep OSD clean as it moves to the TVAC chamber (happening this week).

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JWST Summer School Application Due Soon

Applications Now Open!

JWST Summer School: High Redshift Transients with JWST
August 4-15, 2025
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD USA

STScI is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the JWST Summer School: High-Redshift Transients with JWST. The JWST Summer School will be held August 4-15, 2025 and will host approximately 50 in-person participants. We encourage early career scientists (including undergraduate and graduate students), new JWST researchers, as well as any researchers new to the high-z transient field to apply.

The school will last two weeks: the first week will focus on high-z transient science, featuring lectures relevant to the field; the second week will focus on observational and analytical techniques, where participants will learn to create a JWST program from scratch, to run the calibration pipeline, and to generate high-level data products necessary to analyze and exploit JWST high-z transient data. A preliminary agenda for the Summer School has now been added to the event website.

Please visit the application portal to submit an application by April 4, 2025, 11:59pm ET. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by April 25, 2025. Virtual participation will be possible during the first week of the school only. Virtual participants do not need to apply, but are still required to register. Registration will open on April 28, 2025 after applicants have been notified.

Important Dates:

• March 6       Application Submission Opens
• April 4          Application Submission Closes
• April 25        Application Notifications Sent
• April 28        Registration Opens
• June 27        Registration Closes

For more information please visit our event website or contact the conference organizers: JWSTSummer2025@stsci.edu

Science Organizing Committee
Mic Bagley (NASA), Stacey Bright (STScI), Caitlin Casey (University of California Santa Barbara), Christa DeCoursey (University of Arizona, Tucson), Jean Dupuis (Canadian Space Agency), Chris Evans (ESA), Macarena Garcia Marin (STScI/ESA), Jeyhan Kartaltepe (Rochester Institute of Technology), Patrick Kelly (University of Minnesota), Dale Kocevski (Colby College), Erini Lambrides (NASA), Mercedes Lopez Morales (STScI), Takashi Moriya (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Robert Quimby (San Diego State University), Neill Reid (STScI), Armin Rest (STScI), Lou Strolger (STScI), Haojing Yan (University of Missouri)

Invitation to AAS 246 Splinter Session (Proposed): Roman Spectroscopic Data Challenge – Part 2 

In a message from Tri Astraatmadja:

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to participate in our splinter session at AAS 246, focused on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its slitless spectroscopy capabilities. This session is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and early-career researchers interested in learning about grism and prism spectroscopy in preparation for Roman’s first call for proposals in fall 2025.   

Session Overview: 

This session is the second part of the Roman Spectroscopic Data Challenge, building on concepts introduced in Data Challenge 1. Whether or not you participated in the first challenge, this session will introduce key ideas in spectral extraction techniques and the unique aspects of Roman spectroscopy. 

Topics Covered: 

- Introduction to grism and prism spectroscopy and their differences 
- Challenges in prism spectral extraction, including optimal extraction and slit loss corrections 
- Key concepts in 2D spectral data interpretation 

 Who Should Attend? 

If you’re interested in learning the basics of slitless spectroscopy and understanding the scientific potential of Roman’s spectral data, this session is for you. No prior experience with slitless spectroscopy is required. 

We look forward to your participation at AAS 246. Please feel free to reach out to spqrdc332@gmail.com should you have any questions.

Best regards,
SPQR team

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.

Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.

New Roman Science Operations Center Newsletter is Out (March 2025)

The latest news from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Science Operations Center (SOC) at STScI 

The Roman telescope is getting assembled at Goddard. Instruments and telescope are integrated and the deployable aperture cover has been successfully installed.  The Core Community Survey Definition Committees have produced their reports and the Roman Observation Time Allocation Committee has started reviewing them. The Roman Research Nexus is in full development and testing continues. The next Roman Science Conference on "Cosmic Cartography" will be held in Baltimore on July 14-18 and abstracts are accepted until March 28.

Included in the newsletter: Conferences, Timeline, New Tools, Survey Planning, Updated Documentation, and Resources.

View Entire Newsletter here: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/roman/2025/roman-science-operations-center-newsletter-march

Invitation to AAS 246 Splinter Session (Proposed): Roman Spectroscopic Data Challenge – Part 2 

In a message from Tri Astraatmadja:

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to participate in our splinter session at AAS 246, focused on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its slitless spectroscopy capabilities. This session is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and early-career researchers interested in learning about grism and prism spectroscopy in preparation for Roman’s first call for proposals in fall 2025.   

Session Overview: 

This session is the second part of the Roman Spectroscopic Data Challenge, building on concepts introduced in Data Challenge 1. Whether or not you participated in the first challenge, this session will introduce key ideas in spectral extraction techniques and the unique aspects of Roman spectroscopy. 

Topics Covered: 

- Introduction to grism and prism spectroscopy and their differences 
- Challenges in prism spectral extraction, including optimal extraction and slit loss corrections 
- Key concepts in 2D spectral data interpretation 

 Who Should Attend? 

If you’re interested in learning the basics of slitless spectroscopy and understanding the scientific potential of Roman’s spectral data, this session is for you. No prior experience with slitless spectroscopy is required. 

We look forward to your participation at AAS 246. Please feel free to reach out to spqrdc332@gmail.com should you have any questions.

Best regards,
SPQR team

Abstracts Due Next Friday: “Cosmic Cartography with Roman” Conference at STScI

Cosmic Cartography with Roman:

Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

July 14th – July 18th, 2025

Abstracts Due March 28, 2025

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is now open for contributed talks and posters at this year's annual Roman Science Conference, "Cosmic Cartography with Roman," to be held July 14th-18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore. The conference will explore the fundamental questions Roman will address by mapping the Universe. Abstracts will be accepted until March 28, 2025.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman's accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of dark energy and dark matter with galaxy formation and evolution. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, Simons Observatory, and SPT. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Attendance: The conference will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.

Important dates
Feb 03, 2025        Abstract Submission Opens
March 28, 2025   Abstract Submission Closes
Apr 14, 2025        Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025        Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025   Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Dillon Brout (Boston University), Tzu-Ching Chang (JPL), Martín Crocce (Institute of Space Sciences, ICE, CSIC), Jo Dunkley (Princeton University), Agnès Ferté (SLAC), Peter Ferguson (University of Washington), Andrew Hearin (Argonne National Lab), Henk Hoekstra (Leiden University), Michelle Ntamptaka (STScI), Hee-Jong Seo (Ohio University), Tomomi Sunayama (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics).

SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC), Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab).

LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI).

Please visit our webpage for all the details, including upcoming deadlines.  

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee

JWST Summer School Application Due Soon

Applications Now Open!

JWST Summer School: High Redshift Transients with JWST
August 4-15, 2025
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD USA

STScI is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the JWST Summer School: High-Redshift Transients with JWST. The JWST Summer School will be held August 4-15, 2025 and will host approximately 50 in-person participants. We encourage early career scientists (including undergraduate and graduate students), new JWST researchers, as well as any researchers new to the high-z transient field to apply.

The school will last two weeks: the first week will focus on high-z transient science, featuring lectures relevant to the field; the second week will focus on observational and analytical techniques, where participants will learn to create a JWST program from scratch, to run the calibration pipeline, and to generate high-level data products necessary to analyze and exploit JWST high-z transient data. A preliminary agenda for the Summer School has now been added to the event website.

Please visit the application portal to submit an application by April 4, 2025, 11:59pm ET. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by April 25, 2025. Virtual participation will be possible during the first week of the school only. Virtual participants do not need to apply, but are still required to register. Registration will open on April 28, 2025 after applicants have been notified.

Important Dates:

• March 6       Application Submission Opens
• April 4          Application Submission Closes
• April 25        Application Notifications Sent
• April 28        Registration Opens
• June 27        Registration Closes

For more information please visit our event website or contact the conference organizers: JWSTSummer2025@stsci.edu

Science Organizing Committee
Mic Bagley (NASA), Stacey Bright (STScI), Caitlin Casey (University of California Santa Barbara), Christa DeCoursey (University of Arizona, Tucson), Jean Dupuis (Canadian Space Agency), Chris Evans (ESA), Macarena Garcia Marin (STScI/ESA), Jeyhan Kartaltepe (Rochester Institute of Technology), Patrick Kelly (University of Minnesota), Dale Kocevski (Colby College), Erini Lambrides (NASA), Mercedes Lopez Morales (STScI), Takashi Moriya (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Robert Quimby (San Diego State University), Neill Reid (STScI), Armin Rest (STScI), Lou Strolger (STScI), Haojing Yan (University of Missouri)

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.

Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.

Transients From Space Workshop at STScI Wrap-Up

This week (March 11-13), STScI hosted the Transients From Space workshop. The workshop eplored novel research made possible by space-based observatories and discussed how the community can optimize scientific return in the future. Registration closed recently, and we have over 150 in person and nearly 100 virtual attendees. We have good representation from across NASA, including ACROSS, PCOS, and a variety of big missions, including UVEX, ULTRASAT, HabWorlds, Rubin, Euclid, Swift, Castor, XMM-Newton, AXIS, Chandra, TMT, and many more. ROMAN HAD A GREAT SHOWING!

All presentations are now online. A full schedule describing talks in each session is posted here. 

In the future, stay tuned for a white paper summarizing some strategic takeaways from the breakout sessions about how transient astronomers can best prepare ourselves for a new era of Time Domain Astronomy.

Abstracts Due Soon: “Cosmic Cartography with Roman” Conference at STScI

Cosmic Cartography with Roman:

Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

July 14th – July 18th, 2025

Abstracts Due March 28, 2025

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is now open for contributed talks and posters at this year's annual Roman Science Conference, "Cosmic Cartography with Roman," to be held July 14th-18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore. The conference will explore the fundamental questions Roman will address by mapping the Universe. Abstracts will be accepted until March 28, 2025.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman's accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of dark energy and dark matter with galaxy formation and evolution. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, Simons Observatory, and SPT. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Attendance: The conference will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.

Important dates
Feb 03, 2025        Abstract Submission Opens
March 28, 2025   Abstract Submission Closes
Apr 14, 2025        Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025        Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025   Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Dillon Brout (Boston University), Tzu-Ching Chang (JPL), Martín Crocce (Institute of Space Sciences, ICE, CSIC), Jo Dunkley (Princeton University), Agnès Ferté (SLAC), Peter Ferguson (University of Washington), Andrew Hearin (Argonne National Lab), Henk Hoekstra (Leiden University), Michelle Ntamptaka (STScI), Hee-Jong Seo (Ohio University), Tomomi Sunayama (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics).

SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC), Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab).

LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI).

Please visit our webpage for all the details, including upcoming deadlines.  

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee

JWST Summer School Application is Now Open

Applications Now Open!

JWST Summer School: High Redshift Transients with JWST
August 4-15, 2025
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD USA

STScI is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the JWST Summer School: High-Redshift Transients with JWST. The JWST Summer School will be held August 4-15, 2025 and will host approximately 50 in-person participants. We encourage early career scientists (including undergraduate and graduate students), new JWST researchers, as well as any researchers new to the high-z transient field to apply.

The school will last two weeks: the first week will focus on high-z transient science, featuring lectures relevant to the field; the second week will focus on observational and analytical techniques, where participants will learn to create a JWST program from scratch, to run the calibration pipeline, and to generate high-level data products necessary to analyze and exploit JWST high-z transient data. A preliminary agenda for the Summer School has now been added to the event website.

Please visit the application portal to submit an application by April 4, 2025, 11:59pm ET. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by April 25, 2025. Virtual participation will be possible during the first week of the school only. Virtual participants do not need to apply, but are still required to register. Registration will open on April 28, 2025 after applicants have been notified.

Important Dates:

• March 6       Application Submission Opens
• April 4          Application Submission Closes
• April 25        Application Notifications Sent
• April 28        Registration Opens
• June 27        Registration Closes

For more information please visit our event website or contact the conference organizers: JWSTSummer2025@stsci.edu

Science Organizing Committee
Mic Bagley (NASA), Stacey Bright (STScI), Caitlin Casey (University of California Santa Barbara), Christa DeCoursey (University of Arizona, Tucson), Jean Dupuis (Canadian Space Agency), Chris Evans (ESA), Macarena Garcia Marin (STScI/ESA), Jeyhan Kartaltepe (Rochester Institute of Technology), Patrick Kelly (University of Minnesota), Dale Kocevski (Colby College), Erini Lambrides (NASA), Mercedes Lopez Morales (STScI), Takashi Moriya (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Robert Quimby (San Diego State University), Neill Reid (STScI), Armin Rest (STScI), Lou Strolger (STScI), Haojing Yan (University of Missouri)

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JWST Summer School Application is Now Open

Applications Now Open!

JWST Summer School: High Redshift Transients with JWST
August 4-15, 2025
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD USA

STScI is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the JWST Summer School: High-Redshift Transients with JWST. The JWST Summer School will be held August 4-15, 2025 and will host approximately 50 in-person participants. We encourage early career scientists (including undergraduate and graduate students), new JWST researchers, as well as any researchers new to the high-z transient field to apply.

The school will last two weeks: the first week will focus on high-z transient science, featuring lectures relevant to the field; the second week will focus on observational and analytical techniques, where participants will learn to create a JWST program from scratch, to run the calibration pipeline, and to generate high-level data products necessary to analyze and exploit JWST high-z transient data. A preliminary agenda for the Summer School has now been added to the event website.

Please visit the application portal to submit an application by April 4, 2025, 11:59pm ET. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by April 25, 2025. Virtual participation will be possible during the first week of the school only. Virtual participants do not need to apply, but are still required to register. Registration will open on April 28, 2025 after applicants have been notified.

Important Dates:

• March 6       Application Submission Opens
• April 4          Application Submission Closes
• April 25        Application Notifications Sent
• April 28        Registration Opens
• June 27        Registration Closes

For more information please visit our event website or contact the conference organizers: JWSTSummer2025@stsci.edu

Science Organizing Committee
Mic Bagley (NASA), Stacey Bright (STScI), Caitlin Casey (University of California Santa Barbara), Christa DeCoursey (University of Arizona, Tucson), Jean Dupuis (Canadian Space Agency), Chris Evans (ESA), Macarena Garcia Marin (STScI/ESA), Jeyhan Kartaltepe (Rochester Institute of Technology), Patrick Kelly (University of Minnesota), Dale Kocevski (Colby College), Erini Lambrides (NASA), Mercedes Lopez Morales (STScI), Takashi Moriya (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Robert Quimby (San Diego State University), Neill Reid (STScI), Armin Rest (STScI), Lou Strolger (STScI), Haojing Yan (University of Missouri)

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.

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Good luck on your ROSES proposals!

Abstract Submission Open: “Cosmic Cartography with Roman” Conference at STScI

In an email from STScI:

Cosmic Cartography with Roman:

Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

July 14th – July 18th, 2025

Abstract Submission Now Open!

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is now open for contributed talks and posters at this year's annual Roman Science Conference, "Cosmic Cartography with Roman," to be held July 14th-18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore. The conference will explore the fundamental questions Roman will address by mapping the Universe. Abstracts will be accepted until March 28, 2025.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman's accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of dark energy and dark matter with galaxy formation and evolution. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, Simons Observatory, and SPT. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Attendance: The conference will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.

Important dates
Feb 03, 2025        Abstract Submission Opens
March 28, 2025   Abstract Submission Closes
Apr 14, 2025        Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025        Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025   Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Dillon Brout (Boston University), Tzu-Ching Chang (JPL), Jo Dunkley (Princeton University), Peter Ferguson (University of Washington), Agnès Ferté (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Andrew Hearin (Argonne National Lab), Henk Hoekstra (Leiden University), Michelle Ntamptaka (STScI), Hee-Jong Seo (Ohio University), Tomomi Sunayama (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics).

SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC),  Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab).

LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI).

Please visit our webpage for all the details, including upcoming deadlines.  

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee

Introducing the Roman Science Collaboration

We are excited to announce the new Roman Science Collaboration (RSC). The RSC aims to amplify the science returns from the Roman mission and the benefits of Roman science investigations to the astronomical community. Joining the collaboration provides membership to a community focused on sparking collaborations and drawing on the creative insights and talents of researchers with complementary interests and expertise.. Membership is not required to do science with Roman data or to apply for observing time or funding.

Join today by clicking here.

NASA ROSES Call for Proposals Now Out: Due March 06, 2025

NASA has released a call for proposals aimed at supporting the progress of and exploiting the scientific and technical data from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 

This program element solicits proposals to work on preparation for the operational phase of Roman, using one of two categories depending on the type of work being proposed. These are:

• Wide Field Science (WFS)
  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals
• Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)
  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select around three CPP proposals; [PIs] members will join the single team that plans and executes Coronagraph Instrument observations

Key Dates:

Thursday, March 6, 2025: Proposals Are Due

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.

Stay Connected and Up To Date

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Milestone Alert

*Roman’s deployable aperture cover has been installed onto the outer barrel assembly. These two components will protect the telescope from unwanted light. 

*NASA engineers completed an environmental testing dress rehearsal to prepare for the thermal vacuum test for Roman's Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly, or SCIPA.

Full article here: https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-successfully-joins-sunshade-to-roman-observatorys-exoskeleton/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASARoman&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=745662033

Abstract Submission Open: “Cosmic Cartography with Roman” Conference at STScI

In an email from STScI:

Cosmic Cartography with Roman:

Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

July 14th – July 18th, 2025

Abstract Submission Now Open!

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is now open for contributed talks and posters at this year's annual Roman Science Conference, "Cosmic Cartography with Roman," to be held July 14th-18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore. The conference will explore the fundamental questions Roman will address by mapping the Universe. Abstracts will be accepted until March 28, 2025.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman's accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of dark energy and dark matter with galaxy formation and evolution. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, Simons Observatory, and SPT. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Attendance: The conference will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.

Important dates
Feb 03, 2025        Abstract Submission Opens
March 28, 2025   Abstract Submission Closes
Apr 14, 2025        Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025        Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025   Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Dillon Brout (Boston University), Tzu-Ching Chang (JPL), Jo Dunkley (Princeton University), Peter Ferguson (University of Washington), Agnès Ferté (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Andrew Hearin (Argonne National Lab), Henk Hoekstra (Leiden University), Michelle Ntamptaka (STScI), Hee-Jong Seo (Ohio University), Tomomi Sunayama (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics).

SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC),  Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab).

LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI).

Please visit our webpage for all the details, including upcoming deadlines.  

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee

Introducing the Roman Science Collaboration

We are excited to announce the new Roman Science Collaboration (RSC). The RSC aims to amplify the science returns from the Roman mission and the benefits of Roman science investigations to the astronomical community. Joining the collaboration provides membership to a community focused on sparking collaborations and drawing on the creative insights and talents of researchers with complementary interests and expertise.. Membership is not required to do science with Roman data or to apply for observing time or funding.

Join today by clicking here.

NASA ROSES Call for Proposals Now Out: Due March 06, 2025

NASA has released a call for proposals aimed at supporting the progress of and exploiting the scientific and technical data from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 

This program element solicits proposals to work on preparation for the operational phase of Roman, using one of two categories depending on the type of work being proposed. These are:

• Wide Field Science (WFS)
  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals
• Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)
  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select around three CPP proposals; [PIs] members will join the single team that plans and executes Coronagraph Instrument observations

Key Dates:

Thursday, March 6, 2025: Proposals Are Due

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.

Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.

Abstract Submission Open: “Cosmic Cartography with Roman” Workshop at STScI

In an email from STScI:

Cosmic Cartography with Roman:

Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

July 14th – July 18th, 2025

Abstract Submission Now Open!

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is now open for contributed talks and posters at this year's annual Roman Science Conference, "Cosmic Cartography with Roman," to be held July 14th-18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore. The conference will explore the fundamental questions Roman will address by mapping the Universe. Abstracts will be accepted until March 28, 2025.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman's accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of dark energy and dark matter with galaxy formation and evolution. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, Simons Observatory, and SPT. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Attendance: The conference will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.

Important dates
Feb 03, 2025        Abstract Submission Opens
March 28, 2025   Abstract Submission Closes
Apr 14, 2025        Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025        Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025   Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Dillon Brout (Boston University), Tzu-Ching Chang (JPL), Jo Dunkley (Princeton University), Peter Ferguson (University of Washington), Agnès Ferté (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Andrew Hearin (Argonne National Lab), Henk Hoekstra (Leiden University), Michelle Ntamptaka (STScI), Hee-Jong Seo (Ohio University), Tomomi Sunayama (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics).

SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC),  Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab).

LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI).

Please visit our webpage for all the details, including upcoming deadlines.  

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee

Roman Science Quarterly Held at STScI Feb 4-5, 2025

The Roman Project held another Roman Science Quarterly (Roman Forum membership required to view link) this week, Feb 4-5. The focus of the quarterlies is to engage the Project Infrastructure Teams (PITs), which will write software, run simulations, and plot out optimal uses of the telescope's data stream. The quarterlies allow all sides to come together to ensure they are able to interface their deliverables. To read more about the PITs, click here.

Introducing the Roman Science Collaboration

We are excited to announce the new Roman Science Collaboration (RSC). The RSC aims to amplify the science returns from the Roman mission and the benefits of Roman science investigations to the astronomical community. Joining the collaboration provides membership to a community focused on sparking collaborations and drawing on the creative insights and talents of researchers with complementary interests and expertise.. Membership is not required to do science with Roman data or to apply for observing time or funding.

Join today by clicking here.

Galactic Plan Survey Virtual Workshop Announcement: Feb 11-13, 2025

The committee charged with recommending the implementation of a Roman Galactic Plane General Astrophysics Survey invites you to provide input on preliminary designs by participating in a virtual workshop, to be held February 11-13, 2025.  Registration is requested by Friday, January 31, 2025.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next flagship observatory, is planned for launch in late 2026. An Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Assessment Committee composed of community members recommended that a survey of the Galactic plane with Roman be defined prior to launch through a community process. 

The work of crafting an observational strategy for a Roman Galactic Plane Survey of approximately 700 hours that maximizes its overall science return is being undertaken by a definition committee composed of members of the science community. There are no mission level science requirements on the Galactic Plane Survey, leaving the full parameter space available to define the observational strategies (filters, depth, cadence, etc.) in a way that will enable a broad range of astrophysical investigations.

The definition committee for the Roman Galactic Plane Survey has developed a preliminary strategy for the survey, based on white papers and science pitches received from the community last year.  This workshop will be an opportunity for the community to provide feedback on the preliminary designs, and to discuss some of the tensions between different elements of the strategy.  The workshop will be fully online, and there is no registration fee. The sessions and content will be structured to enable participation from a range of time zones.

Please register for this workshop as soon as possible so that we can coordinate the online sessions!

To learn more, visit the workshop website:
https://outerspace.stsci.edu/x/JoRUEQ

NASA ROSES Call for Proposals Now Out: Due March 06, 2025

NASA has released a call for proposals aimed at supporting the progress of and exploiting the scientific and technical data from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 

This program element solicits proposals to work on preparation for the operational phase of Roman, using one of two categories depending on the type of work being proposed. These are:

• Wide Field Science (WFS)
  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals
• Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)
  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select around three CPP proposals; [PIs] members will join the single team that plans and executes Coronagraph Instrument observations

Key Dates:

Thursday, March 6, 2025: Proposals Are Due

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.

Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.

Introducing the Roman Science Collaboration

We are excited to announce the new Roman Science Collaboration (RSC). The RSC aims to amplify the science returns from the Roman mission and the benefits of Roman science investigations to the astronomical community. Joining the collaboration provides membership to a community focused on sparking collaborations and drawing on the creative insights and talents of researchers with complementary interests and expertise.. Membership is not required to do science with Roman data or to apply for observing time or funding.

Join today by clicking here.

Last Chance to Register for Transients From Space Workshop at STScI, March 11-13, 2025

From the organizers of Transients From Space

Transients From Space Workshop
March 11th - March 13th, 2025
Final Chance to Register
Registration Open Through Feb 07, 2025

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will host a workshop on transients and time-domain astronomy titled “Transients From Space” (TFS) on March 11-13, 2025 at STScI in Baltimore, MD.

Registration is open through Friday, February 07, 2025. 

Agenda: We are excited with our planned schedule, which is filled with excellent speakers across a range of backgrounds, subject matters, and NASA missions. As a Workshop, our daily schedule will dedicate roughly ninety minutes to guided discussions and writing amongst subgroups divided by subject matter. There will be nine subgroups throughout the Workshop (Early Time Obs/ToOs, Stellar Transients, Dust and SNR, High-Z, High Energy, Stellar Pops, Type Ia, Extreme Transients, and Big Data). It is our intent to produce a community white paper that will summarize the biggest opportunities and challenges facing the Time-Domain Astronomy (TDA) community in terms of working with space telescopes and their data. This will serve as a useful opportunity for various initiatives and missions to elevate their priorities. We hope researchers at all levels consider being part of this discussion whether you have a speaking slot or not.

CCS Recommendation Reports Now Available For Download

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct three large and powerful Core Community Surveys as part of its observing program: the High Latitude Wide Area and Time Domain Surveys, and the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. The community process for defining Roman’s Core Community Surveys is moving into its next phase. The survey definition committees, tasked with identifying implementation options that will maximize the science that can be performed with the surveys, have made their recommendations to the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC). The ROTAC is currently reviewing the implementation options in the reports, and will in turn make a recommendation to the Roman Mission in March 2025 as to what should be implemented for each of Roman’s Core Community Surveys. 

This past Wednesday, January 22, 2025, representatives of each definition committee publicly presented their recommended survey implementations. A recording of the virtual presentations and a PDF of the full reports are both available here in the notes from the January 22 Roman Comunity Forum meeting.

Galactic Plan Survey Virtual Workshop Announcement: Feb 11-13, 2025

The committee charged with recommending the implementation of a Roman Galactic Plane General Astrophysics Survey invites you to provide input on preliminary designs by participating in a virtual workshop, to be held February 11-13, 2025.  Registration is requested by Friday, January 31, 2025.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next flagship observatory, is planned for launch in late 2026. An Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Assessment Committee composed of community members recommended that a survey of the Galactic plane with Roman be defined prior to launch through a community process. 

The work of crafting an observational strategy for a Roman Galactic Plane Survey of approximately 700 hours that maximizes its overall science return is being undertaken by a definition committee composed of members of the science community. There are no mission level science requirements on the Galactic Plane Survey, leaving the full parameter space available to define the observational strategies (filters, depth, cadence, etc.) in a way that will enable a broad range of astrophysical investigations.

The definition committee for the Roman Galactic Plane Survey has developed a preliminary strategy for the survey, based on white papers and science pitches received from the community last year.  This workshop will be an opportunity for the community to provide feedback on the preliminary designs, and to discuss some of the tensions between different elements of the strategy.  The workshop will be fully online, and there is no registration fee. The sessions and content will be structured to enable participation from a range of time zones.

Please register for this workshop as soon as possible so that we can coordinate the online sessions!

To learn more, visit the workshop website:
https://outerspace.stsci.edu/x/JoRUEQ

Hubble Cycle 33 Initiative: Roman Preparatory Science (RPS)

Roman expects to have its first call for proposals in Fall 2025. The Hubble Space Telescope’s Cycle 33 proposals, due April 10, 2025, include a new initiative for Roman Preparatory Science (RPS) programs. The RPS Initiative is designed to encourage observations with Hubble that complement and enhance the scientific impact of Roman observations, or that are essential to achieving critical science goals of future Roman programs. Find out more here.

STScI Community Town Hall, Friday Jan 31, 2025, 1:00 pm ET

Space Telescope Science Institute is holding a virtual Town Hall for the astronomical community at 1:00 pm Eastern Time on Friday January 31^st. STScI Leadership will provide updates on the missions supported by the Institute, including the potential budget challenges faced by both Hubble and Webb. There will be a series of presentations followed by a short question and answer session.

The meeting will be hosted via webex at this link:
https://stsci.webex.com/stsci/j.php?MTID=m7e6a7fb6b3a8cd074f03da4670a528ad

Agenda
STScI overview                                           Jennifer Lotz, Director
STScI Science and Policy Highlights        Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Associate Director for Science
JWST mission highlights                           Tom Brown, JWST Mission Office Head
HST mission highlights                              Julia Roman-Duval, Interim HST Mission Office Head
Roman mission highlights                        Karoline Gilbert, Roman Mission Office Project Scientist

We will provide an opportunity to submit questions in advance.

All of the materials will be made available here after the event:
https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/AAS/STScI+Community+Town+Hall+-+January+31+2025 

New Webpage: How To Get Involved With Roman

Ever think to yourself, how can I get more involved with Roman? There are plenty of opportunities! Please see the SOC's new webpage that lay out all the options.

Roman Science Conference Announced: Cosmic Cartography with Roman

In an email from STScI:

Save The Date

Cosmic Cartography with Roman:
Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

July 14th – July 18th, 2025

Save the Date! We are pleased to announce that the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will host this year’s annual Roman Science Conference on fundamental questions on mapping our Universe titled “Cosmic Cartography with Roman” on July 14th-July 18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore, MD.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman's accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of galaxy formation and evolution with dark matter and dark energy. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, and Simons Observatory. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Attendance: The workshop will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.

Important dates
Feb 03, 2025    Abstract Submission Opens
Apr 14, 2025     Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025     Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025  Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI

SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC),  Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab)

LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI)

Please check our webpage for regular updates.

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee

NASA ROSES Call for Proposals Now Out: Due March 06, 2025

NASA has released a call for proposals aimed at supporting the progress of and exploiting the scientific and technical data from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 

This program element solicits proposals to work on preparation for the operational phase of Roman, using one of two categories depending on the type of work being proposed. These are:

• Wide Field Science (WFS)
  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals
• Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)
  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select around three CPP proposals; [PIs] members will join the single team that plans and executes Coronagraph Instrument observations

Key Dates:

Thursday, March 6, 2025: Proposals Are Due

Roman/Subaru Workshop and White Paper preparation

The Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observation Workshop VI will be held December 16-18, 2024 (JST) in Tokyo, Japan. Registration for the workshop is now open and closes on November 15, 2024. The format for the workshop is both in-person and online. Workshop information can be found here, https://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/Roman_VI/index.html.

JAXA is an international partner on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. One of the key areas of the collaboration is conducting Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observations, in cooperation with the Subaru Telescope and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observations will bring great scientific benefits in astronomy, since both facilities have complementary powerful wide-field and high-contrast capabilities. While both facilities are very powerful by themselves, the combination of the complementary data should bring new insights. Based on the support of the Subaru science community, the Subaru Telescope is ready to reserve 100 nights during or reasonably after the Roman nominal mission period of 5.3 years after launch. The coordination of the program for the 100 nights is led by a Steering Group whose members were designated by the JAXA and NASA Roman science leads. The 100 nights are not expected to be filled by many small programs that can be conducted by the Normal Programs of Subaru Open Use, but assigned for a few large programs along the Themes that will be identified by the Steering Group using community White Papers as input.

In order to identify the selected Themes of the Synergistic Observations of the 100 nights, the Steering Group calls for White Papers from the Roman and Subaru science communities. The submitted White Papers will be carefully reviewed by the Steering Group with the help of external experts. Based on the submitted White Papers and the review results, the Steering Group will identify and announce the selected Themes.

The call for White Papers can be found here, https://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/Roman_VI/callforWP.html. The deadline for White Paper submission is January 31, 2025.

Steering Group: Yusei Koyama (Subaru Telescope), Yoshiki Matsuoka (Ehime University), Julie McEnery (NASA GSFC), Jason Rhodes (NASA JPL), Takahiro Sumi (Osaka University), David Weinberg (Ohio State University), Toru Yamada (JAXA)

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.

Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.

CCS Recommendation Reports Now Available For Download

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct three large and powerful Core Community Surveys as part of its observing program: the High Latitude Wide Area and Time Domain Surveys, and the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. The community process for defining Roman’s Core Community Surveys is moving into its next phase. The survey definition committees, tasked with identifying implementation options that will maximize the science that can be performed with the surveys, have made their recommendations to the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC). The ROTAC is currently reviewing the implementation options in the reports, and will in turn make a recommendation to the Roman Mission in March 2025 as to what should be implemented for each of Roman’s Core Community Surveys. 

This past Wednesday, January 22, 2025, representatives of each definition committee publicly presented their recommended survey implementations. A recording of the virtual presentations and a PDF of the full reports are both available here in the notes from the January 22 Roman Comunity Forum meeting.

Galactic Plan Survey Virtual Workshop Announcement: Feb 11-13, 2025

The committee charged with recommending the implementation of a Roman Galactic Plane General Astrophysics Survey invites you to provide input on preliminary designs by participating in a virtual workshop, to be held February 11-13, 2025.  Registration is requested by Friday, January 31, 2025.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next flagship observatory, is planned for launch in late 2026. An Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Assessment Committee composed of community members recommended that a survey of the Galactic plane with Roman be defined prior to launch through a community process. 

The work of crafting an observational strategy for a Roman Galactic Plane Survey of approximately 700 hours that maximizes its overall science return is being undertaken by a definition committee composed of members of the science community. There are no mission level science requirements on the Galactic Plane Survey, leaving the full parameter space available to define the observational strategies (filters, depth, cadence, etc.) in a way that will enable a broad range of astrophysical investigations.

The definition committee for the Roman Galactic Plane Survey has developed a preliminary strategy for the survey, based on white papers and science pitches received from the community last year.  This workshop will be an opportunity for the community to provide feedback on the preliminary designs, and to discuss some of the tensions between different elements of the strategy.  The workshop will be fully online, and there is no registration fee. The sessions and content will be structured to enable participation from a range of time zones.

Please register for this workshop as soon as possible so that we can coordinate the online sessions!

To learn more, visit the workshop website:
https://outerspace.stsci.edu/x/JoRUEQ

Hubble Cycle 33 Initiative: Roman Preparatory Science (RPS)

Roman expects to have its first call for proposals in Fall 2025. The Hubble Space Telescope’s Cycle 33 proposals, due April 10, 2025, include a new initiative for Roman Preparatory Science (RPS) programs. The RPS Initiative is designed to encourage observations with Hubble that complement and enhance the scientific impact of Roman observations, or that are essential to achieving critical science goals of future Roman programs. Find out more here.

STScI Community Town Hall, Friday Jan 31, 2025, 1:00 pm ET

Space Telescope Science Institute is holding a virtual Town Hall for the astronomical community at 1:00 pm Eastern Time on Friday January 31^st. STScI Leadership will provide updates on the missions supported by the Institute, including the potential budget challenges faced by both Hubble and Webb. There will be a series of presentations followed by a short question and answer session.

The meeting will be hosted via webex at this link:
https://stsci.webex.com/stsci/j.php?MTID=m7e6a7fb6b3a8cd074f03da4670a528ad

Agenda
STScI overview                                           Jennifer Lotz, Director
STScI Science and Policy Highlights        Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Associate Director for Science
JWST mission highlights                           Tom Brown, JWST Mission Office Head
HST mission highlights                              Julia Roman-Duval, Interim HST Mission Office Head
Roman mission highlights                        Karoline Gilbert, Roman Mission Office Project Scientist

We will provide an opportunity to submit questions in advance.

All of the materials will be made available here after the event:
https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/AAS/STScI+Community+Town+Hall+-+January+31+2025 

New Webpage: How To Get Involved With Roman

Ever think to yourself, how can I get more involved with Roman? There are plenty of opportunities! Please see the SOC's new webpage that lay out all the options.

Roman Science Conference Announced: Cosmic Cartography with Roman

In an email from STScI:

Save The Date

Cosmic Cartography with Roman:
Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

July 14th – July 18th, 2025

Save the Date! We are pleased to announce that the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will host this year’s annual Roman Science Conference on fundamental questions on mapping our Universe titled “Cosmic Cartography with Roman” on July 14th-July 18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore, MD.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman's accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of galaxy formation and evolution with dark matter and dark energy. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, and Simons Observatory. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Attendance: The workshop will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.

Important dates
Feb 03, 2025    Abstract Submission Opens
Apr 14, 2025     Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025     Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025  Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI

SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC),  Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab)

LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI)

Please check our webpage for regular updates.

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee

NASA ROSES Call for Proposals Now Out: Due March 06, 2025

NASA has released a call for proposals aimed at supporting the progress of and exploiting the scientific and technical data from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 

This program element solicits proposals to work on preparation for the operational phase of Roman, using one of two categories depending on the type of work being proposed. These are:

• Wide Field Science (WFS)
  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals
• Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)
  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select around three CPP proposals; [PIs] members will join the single team that plans and executes Coronagraph Instrument observations

Key Dates:

Thursday, March 6, 2025: Proposals Are Due

Roman/Subaru Workshop and White Paper preparation

The Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observation Workshop VI will be held December 16-18, 2024 (JST) in Tokyo, Japan. Registration for the workshop is now open and closes on November 15, 2024. The format for the workshop is both in-person and online. Workshop information can be found here, https://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/Roman_VI/index.html.

JAXA is an international partner on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. One of the key areas of the collaboration is conducting Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observations, in cooperation with the Subaru Telescope and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observations will bring great scientific benefits in astronomy, since both facilities have complementary powerful wide-field and high-contrast capabilities. While both facilities are very powerful by themselves, the combination of the complementary data should bring new insights. Based on the support of the Subaru science community, the Subaru Telescope is ready to reserve 100 nights during or reasonably after the Roman nominal mission period of 5.3 years after launch. The coordination of the program for the 100 nights is led by a Steering Group whose members were designated by the JAXA and NASA Roman science leads. The 100 nights are not expected to be filled by many small programs that can be conducted by the Normal Programs of Subaru Open Use, but assigned for a few large programs along the Themes that will be identified by the Steering Group using community White Papers as input.

In order to identify the selected Themes of the Synergistic Observations of the 100 nights, the Steering Group calls for White Papers from the Roman and Subaru science communities. The submitted White Papers will be carefully reviewed by the Steering Group with the help of external experts. Based on the submitted White Papers and the review results, the Steering Group will identify and announce the selected Themes.

The call for White Papers can be found here, https://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/Roman_VI/callforWP.html. The deadline for White Paper submission is January 31, 2025.

Steering Group: Yusei Koyama (Subaru Telescope), Yoshiki Matsuoka (Ehime University), Julie McEnery (NASA GSFC), Jason Rhodes (NASA JPL), Takahiro Sumi (Osaka University), David Weinberg (Ohio State University), Toru Yamada (JAXA)

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.

Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.

Roman Pics From AAS

Wow, what can we say. Roman rocked the AAS. So many members of the Roman community contributed and participated. And what about that Town Hall? EPIC.  We missed many of you. But we can't wait to catch up in Anchorage!

Public Release of CCS Recommendation Reports

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct three large and powerful Core Community Surveys as part of its observing program: the High Latitude Wide Area and Time Domain Surveys, and the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. The community process for defining Roman’s Core Community Surveys is moving into its next phase. The survey definition committees, tasked with identifying implementation options that will maximize the science that can be performed with the surveys, have made their recommendations to the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee. We invite you to attend the next virtual Roman Community Forum, on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 4:00 pm EST to hear from a representative of each definition committee about their recommended survey implementations. 

The Roman Community Forum is a virtual meeting that provides regular updates on the Roman Mission and the science it will enable. The schedule for the meeting and connection details are included below. Details on joining, as well as a posting of the recorded meeting, will also be found on the Roman Community Forum page: https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/roman/comm_forum/

What’s Next?

Each of the survey definition committees has produced a report detailing their recommended survey implementation options and the science each will enable. These reports will shortly be made public; a link will be included to the reports on the Roman Community Forum page above. The Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee is reviewing the implementation options in the reports, and will in turn make a recommendation to the Roman Mission in March 2025 as to what should be implemented for each of Roman’s Core Community Surveys. 

Virtual Meeting Details

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
4:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) 

4:00 - 4:30 pm EST: Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS)
4:30 - 5:00 pm EST: High Latitude Wide Area Survey (HLWAS)
5:00 - 5:30 pm EST: High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS)

Join from the meeting link

https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=m6949042db26ed4ce382321b2adacc294

New Webpage: How To Get Involved With Roman

Ever think to yourself, how can I get more involved with Roman? There are plenty of opportunities! Please see the SOC's new webpage that lay out all the options.

Roman Science Conference Announced: Cosmic Cartography with Roman

In an email from STScI:

Save The Date

Cosmic Cartography with Roman:
Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

July 14th – July 18th, 2025

Save the Date! We are pleased to announce that the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will host this year’s annual Roman Science Conference on fundamental questions on mapping our Universe titled “Cosmic Cartography with Roman” on July 14th-July 18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore, MD.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman's accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of galaxy formation and evolution with dark matter and dark energy. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, and Simons Observatory. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Attendance: The workshop will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.

Important dates
Feb 03, 2025    Abstract Submission Opens
Apr 14, 2025     Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025     Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025  Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI

SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC),  Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab)

LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI)

Please check our webpage for regular updates.

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee

NASA ROSES Call for Proposals Now Out: Notice of Intent Due January 17

NASA has released a call for proposals aimed at supporting the progress of and exploiting the scientific and technical data from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 

This program element solicits proposals to work on preparation for the operational phase of Roman, using one of two categories depending on the type of work being proposed. These are:

• Wide Field Science (WFS)
  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals
• Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)
  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select around three CPP proposals; [PIs] members will join the single team that plans and executes Coronagraph Instrument observations

Key Dates:

Friday, January 17, 2025: Notice of Intent.
Thursday, March 6, 2025: Proposals Are Due

Roman/Subaru Workshop and White Paper preparation

The Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observation Workshop VI will be held December 16-18, 2024 (JST) in Tokyo, Japan. Registration for the workshop is now open and closes on November 15, 2024. The format for the workshop is both in-person and online. Workshop information can be found here, https://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/Roman_VI/index.html.

JAXA is an international partner on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. One of the key areas of the collaboration is conducting Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observations, in cooperation with the Subaru Telescope and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observations will bring great scientific benefits in astronomy, since both facilities have complementary powerful wide-field and high-contrast capabilities. While both facilities are very powerful by themselves, the combination of the complementary data should bring new insights. Based on the support of the Subaru science community, the Subaru Telescope is ready to reserve 100 nights during or reasonably after the Roman nominal mission period of 5.3 years after launch. The coordination of the program for the 100 nights is led by a Steering Group whose members were designated by the JAXA and NASA Roman science leads. The 100 nights are not expected to be filled by many small programs that can be conducted by the Normal Programs of Subaru Open Use, but assigned for a few large programs along the Themes that will be identified by the Steering Group using community White Papers as input.

In order to identify the selected Themes of the Synergistic Observations of the 100 nights, the Steering Group calls for White Papers from the Roman and Subaru science communities. The submitted White Papers will be carefully reviewed by the Steering Group with the help of external experts. Based on the submitted White Papers and the review results, the Steering Group will identify and announce the selected Themes.

The call for White Papers can be found here, https://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/Roman_VI/callforWP.html. The deadline for White Paper submission is January 31, 2025.

Steering Group: Yusei Koyama (Subaru Telescope), Yoshiki Matsuoka (Ehime University), Julie McEnery (NASA GSFC), Jason Rhodes (NASA JPL), Takahiro Sumi (Osaka University), David Weinberg (Ohio State University), Toru Yamada (JAXA)

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.

Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.