Notice
If you are working on press-worthy science that relates to future Roman WFI science, we invite you to share your work with our STScI Roman Science Communications Lead, Brandon Lawton - lawton@stsci.edu - who will be attending the meeting and at the STScI booth.
Brandon can work with the Roman partners to share your exciting science with the world!
Roman Events at the 240th AAS Meeting | ||
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Town Hall Ballroom D | NASA Town Hall Senior representatives from NASA's Science Mission Directorate and Astrophysics Division will discuss NASA’s science program and outlook. Topics will include highlights of operating missions, progress of missions in development and implementation, NASA's continuing response to the 2020 Decadal Survey, the status of the research program, impacts of the pandemic, and anticipated opportunities for both nonflight basic research awards (grants) and flight mission investigations. | Monday, June 13; 12:45–1:45 p.m. |
NASA Hyperwall Presentation NASA Booth, Exhibit Hall | Obscured AGN – Hiding High Growth at the Cosmic Noon Dr. Andreea Petric from the Space Telescope Science Institute, talking about future Roman Space Telescope discoveries of obscured Active Galactic Nuclei. | Monday, June 13; 9:10–9:22 a.m. |
Exhibitor Theater Presentation Pasadena Convention Center Hall A/B | R2-D2: Roman and Rubin - from Data to Discovery Dr. Aaron Meisner from NSF’s NOIRLab will highlight the broad range of science synergies enabled by the combination of the Roman Space Telescope and Rubin Observatory, on behalf of the AURA Roman-Rubin Science Synergies Working Group. These exciting scientific opportunities span from our own solar system to the epoch of reionization, and can be facilitated by suitable observing and data processing/archiving initiatives. | Monday, June 13; 12:30-1:00 p.m. |
NASA Hyperwall Presentation NASA Booth, Exhibit Hall | Paving the way for Big Eyes with Theory and Simulations Dr. Aaron Yung from NASA Goddard presents theoretical simulations that guide the design of Webb and Roman surveys for galaxies in the early Universe. Dr. Yung will present simulated JWST images and the making-of for these physically accurate predictions. | Monday, June 13; 6:16–6:28 p.m. |
NASA Hyperwall Presentation NASA Booth, Exhibit Hall | Overview of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument and Its Technology Demonstration Dr. Robert Zellem from NASA JPL presents the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument, which will be the first high-performance stellar coronagraph using active wavefront control for deep starlight suppression in space, providing unprecedented levels of contrast, spatial resolution, and sensitivity for astronomical observations in the optical. During its Technology Demonstration phase, the Coronagraph will resolve the signal of an exoplanet via photometry and spectroscopy and directly image and measure the polarization of disks, providing a critical intermediate step toward establishing the technology and methods that will potentially be used with a future UVIOR mission. Here, I present the Roman Coronagraph’s design and capability as well as some anticipated results from its technology demonstration. | Tuesday, June 14; 9:10–9:22 a.m. |
Splinters Conference Room 204 | Testing Hierarchical Models of Galaxy Evolution with the Roman Space Telescope Roman will greatly expand our sampling of the structures, colors, and spectroscopic properties of galaxies over a significant fraction of cosmic time. This session will bring together observers and theorists to discuss how to optimize both the observing strategy and the simulation strategy to make the most incisive tests of theoretical models. | Tuesday, June 14; 10:00–11:30 a.m. |
Town Hall Ballroom D | STScI Town Hall STScI will report on the status of our existing and upcoming missions and describe new opportunities designed to advance astrophysics through the 2020s. We will highlight key initiatives associated with our major missions. The Town Hall includes presentations from STScI leads and community members. We will have time for discussion to receive community input regarding new capabilities and to answer questions about our activities in the coming year. | Tuesday, June 14; 12:45–1:45 p.m. |
NASA Hyperwall Presentation NASA Booth, Exhibit Hall | Roman Science Operations SOC Data Management System This presentation by Dr. Harry Ferguson will highlight the data management plans at the STScI Science Operations Center (SOC). Standard pipeline processing for the Wide Field Instrument will remove the instrument signatures and rectify and co-add images multiple images of the same field. The pipeline will generate catalogs of sources, including variable sources. The SOC will also provide tools to assist with simulating Roman data and to provide effective point-spread functions. | Wednesday, June 15, 9:22–9:34 a.m. |
NASA Hyperwall Presentation NASA Booth, Exhibit Hall | The Roman Space Telescope and You The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will revolutionize space-based astronomy with its unprecedented combination of sensitivity, angular resolution, and survey speed. With less than five years to launch, now is the time to prepare for the flood of science it will enable. Dr. Dominic Benford from NASA HQ presents a new proposal opportunity that is available this year for *you* to be involved. | Wednesday, June 15, 5:40–5:52 p.m. |
NASA Hyperwall Presentation NASA Booth, Exhibit Hall | The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Dr. Rebekah Hounsell from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA Goddard presents the Roman mission and the core surveys it plans to conduct. | Thursday, June 16; 9:10–9:22 a.m. |
Town Hall Ballroom D | Roman Town Hall The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly WFIRST) is a NASA flagship mission planned for launch in the mid 2020s. This session will cover the status of the project and upcoming opportunities for community involvement in planning and executing the science and technology demonstration aspects of Roman. The focus will be on Roman opportunities: ROSES call, Astrophysics Survey RFI, etc. It will be followed by a reception. | Thursday, June 16; 12:45–1:45 p.m. |
Roman Resources Available at the 240th AAS Meeting |
Research and Support Participation Opportunities - Roman ROSES Call
RESEARCH AND SUPPORT PARTICIPATION OPPORTUNITIES ROSES call in Apr 2022 (draft) solicits science and infrastructure teams to work on broad range of science preparatory efforts and develop infrastructure to pursue science goals. This solicitation represents a tripartite opportunity to provide for participation of the astrophysics community in the Roman mission through the categories of:
The NASA point of contact concerning this program is Dominic Benford, who will be attending this AAS meeting. |
Roman Science and Technical Overview Booklet The Roman Science and Technical Overview Booklet provides a single resource where basic information about Roman's technical capabilities, and how they enable science, can be located. The booklet is updated twice a year. |
Roman Slide SetThis presentation highlights the science that will be enabled by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The presentation includes notes for the presenter and can be used as a whole or in parts. The presentation comes in multiple formats, found here. We encourage scientists to take and use any or all of these slides, modified if needed, for your presentations about Roman science. |
Roman Visual Library
The Roman Visual Library, located here, is a resource for astronomers to grab Roman-related images. You can find images, captions, credits, and image source locations here. |
Roman BrochureTargeted for launch in late 2026, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will revolutionize astronomy by building on the science discoveries and technological leaps of the Hubble and Webb space telescopes. The Roman brochure, located here, provides a simple way to express the power of Roman's field of view and is useful for all audiences. |
Come and Find Us in the Exhibit Hall! |
How to Connect With Us |
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NASA (Booth 506)
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.
Check out the NASA Hyperwall Talks
Come by the NASA booth to see Hyperwall presentations related to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and NASA's other missions.
STScI (Booth 109)
STScI is Roman’s Science Operations Center (SOC). The SOC will be 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.
Contact us with questions
The Roman Help Desk is operated joinly by the SOC and the SSC. Contact the SOC helpdesk for questions about SOC tools, WFI imaging, data calibration and archiving, proposal planning and scheduling.
Caltech/IPAC (Booth 501)
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.
Contact us with questions
The Roman Help Desk is operated joinly by the SOC and the SSC. Contact the SSC helpdesk for questions about WFI spectroscopy, microlensing data processing, the proposal submission and review process, and the coronagraph.
JPL Exoplanet Exploration Program (Booth 806)
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.
Check out our coronagraph demo
Come by our booth to learn how a coronagraph, an instrument that scientists use to block out a star’s light to directly image the planets orbiting around it, works and will be used on future NASA missions, like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Ball Aerospace (Booth 414)
NASA selected a diverse team from Ball Aerospace to design and develop the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) Opto-Mechanical Assembly for the Roman Space Telescope mission. Ball is partnered with NASA to support the optical-mechanical assembly, integration and test of WFI. The optical-mechanical assembly, which includes the optical bench, thermal control system, precision mechanisms, optics, and electronics, provides the stable structure and thermal environment that enables the wide field, high quality observations of WFI. Ball's design uses heritage hardware to unfold the incoming light, providing cost and schedule savings to the mission.
