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NASA (Booth 702)

The Roman Space Telescope Project Office is at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which also oversees the work on the Wide Field Instrument (WFI), the Spacecraft Bus, and System Integration. 

At this booth, you can learn more about NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman mission as well as the mission’s Coronagraph Instrument.  Roman's Coronagraph Instrument is being built by NASA JPL.

STScI  (Booth

614)

STScI is Roman’s Science Operations Center (SOC). The SOC is responsible for the mission's observation scheduling system, WFI data processing system for the direct-imaging mode and the mission's entire data archive. STScI performed pre-formulation, formulation, and design activities for Roman starting in 2014, and continues its role in science operations system engineering, design, science research support, and scientific community engagement and public outreach.

Caltech/IPAC  (Booth

615)

IPAC is home to the Roman Science Support Center. IPAC is responsible for Roman’s Coronagraph Instrument operations, high-level data processing of grism and prism data from the Wide Field Instrument (WFI), high-level data processing of WFI microlensing survey data and community engagement for Roman exoplanet science and wide field spectroscopy. IPAC will also implement the proposal solicitation and grant management for the General Observer, Guest Investigator and Theory programs, curate telescope instrument and simulation efforts and engage the greater scientific community in preparing for science with Roman.

JPL is building Roman’s Coronograph Instrument and is involved with detector validation and developing the coronagraph’s science capabilities. The coronagraph will provide the first in-space demonstration of technologies needed for future missions to image and characterize rocky planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. By demonstrating these tools in an integrated end-to-end system and enabling scientific observations, NASA will validate performance models and provide the pathway for potential future flagship missions.

Roman Science Inspired by Emerging JWST Results

Dates

June 20, 2023 - June 23, 2023

Location

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
3700 San Martin Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218

Description

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will provide a simultaneous field of view 100 times larger than that of JWST, and sensitivity and resolution similar to that of HST. With incredible survey speeds, Roman will perform near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys approximately 1000 times faster than the largest surveys on HST, yielding contiguously surveyed areas rivaling ground-based surveys. With these capabilities, the Roman surveys, both community-defined Core Community Surveys and competed General Astrophysics Surveys, will have broad impacts across all of astrophysics. Furthermore, Roman’s survey capabilities will be highly synergistic with JWST's ground-breaking sensitivity, extended wavelength coverage, and broad range of observing modes. Together, these observatories will operate in tandem not only with Hubble, but also with Rubin, Euclid, other ground-based and space-based facilities of the 2020s. The first year of science from JWST is already providing exciting scientific results on a wide range of topics that are relevant for Roman. We therefore announce a conference at the Space Telescope Science Institute (Baltimore, MD, USA) from June 19-23, 2023 that will focus on how emerging new results from JWST inform the planning for Roman’s surveys, including the science questions the surveys can address and their anticipated scientific yield. In concordance with the broad range of astrophysics addressed by both missions, we welcome contributions on all scientific topics connected to this theme, from solar system objects and exoplanets, to nearby galaxies, to the search for the first stars and galaxies, and everything in between. A writer's workshop will be offered concurrently with the conference.

How Roman Observations Will Confront Theory

https://conference.ipac.caltech.edu/roman2024/ 

Dates:

July 9 - 12, 2024

Location: 

Caltech/IPAC campus

Description:  

The goal of this 4-day conference is to bring together inclusively members of the community to discuss how observations with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will confront and challenge theories, from exoplanets to the edge of the Universe. The conference will focus mainly on the Core Community Surveys -- the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey, High Latitude Wide Area Survey, and High Latitude Time Domain Survey, which will occupy the majority of the primary mission -- as well as the Coronagraph Instrument technology demonstration. However, there are boundless theories that will also be addressed and tested by the wide variety of General Astrophysics Surveys. This conference, to take place on the Caltech campus and online, will be an active and exciting confluence of both observers and theorists to outline the potential breakthroughs that could be made possible during the lifetime of the Roman Space Telescope.

If you have any questions, you can email us at romanssc@ipac.caltech.edu .

Register and find out more information here: