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In order to maximize the science return and legacy value of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI), the Roman Project Office charters a number of Working Groups. Each of these Working Groups is dedicated to discussing and advising the Roman Project and its partners on key elements for preparing for WFI data and operations. Examples include calibration and processing of the WFI data, simulations of WFI data, and support for the definition of Roman's Core Community Surveys. While the Working Groups are private, anyone in the scientific community can request membership.
Wide Field Instrument Working Groups
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Software Working Group: Discussion of issues related to the processing, distribution and analysis of the data from the Wide Field Instrument. This includes discussion of algorithms and software in the pipelines to be operated by the Science Operations Center (SOC) and the Science Support Center (SSC) as well as discussion of the needs and plans for analyzing the data created outside of the SOC and SSC default standard pipelines. The working group will also discuss aspects of support for data analysis beyond the pipelines. This includes topics such as databases and archive services, the computing and data-storage infrastructure to be provided with the cloud-based Roman Science Platform, and community-contributed software and data products.
Survey
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To enable Roman's broad science goals, the Wide Field Instrument's observing program will include both Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Surveys. The majority of Roman’s five-year nominal mission will be devoted to the Core Community Surveys, which include a High Latitude Wide Area survey (HLWAS), a High Latitude Time Domain survey (HLTDS), and a Galactic Bulge Time Domain survey (GBTDS), with a minimum of 25% of the five year nominal mission devoted to General Astrophysics Surveys.
The Core Community Surveys will be capable of meeting the Roman Mission’s cosmology and exoplanet science requirements while leaving significant parameter space available to establish the observational strategies (filters, depth, cadence, etc.) in a way that will enable a broad range of astrophysical investigations.
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Definition Working Group: Coming Soon. This soon-to-be formed Working Group will provide a forum for discussions of survey designs, associated simulations, and science motivators, including but not limited to Roman's community-defined surveys (the Core Community Surveys and a General Astrophysics Galactic Plane Survey).
