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If you are working on press-worthy science that relates to future Roman WFI science, we invite you to share your work with Brandon Lawton - lawton@stsci.edu - Project Scientist, Roman Science Communications.
Brandon can work with the Roman partners to share your exciting science with the world!
Roman Events at the 241st AAS Meeting | ||
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Exhibit Hall (NASA Booth) | NASA Hyperwall Talk Building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, by Dominic Benford. | Sunday, January 8, 2023 7:05 PM - 7:20 PM |
Exhibit Hall (NASA Booth) | NASA Hyperwall Talk Paving the way for Big Eyes with Theory and Simulations, by Aaron Yung | Monday, January 9, 2023 9:05 AM - 9:20 AM |
Ballroom 6E | NASA Town Hall The new Director of Astrophysics, supported by 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, January 9, 2023 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM |
Room 304 | Nearby Galaxies under a New Light with Roman (Splinter Meeting) The Roman Space Telescope will provide HST-like spatial resolution in the optical and near-infrared, but with a field of view 100 times larger than HST. Even for single pointings, this provides data sets comparable to large survey projects with previous generation space-based observatories. Roman's large field-of-view will also quickly map the most nearby galaxies with resolved stars. Its superb astrometric capabilities will allow us to measure galaxy growth across space and time with unprecedented detail. Complementary, studies that map stellar populations with Roman in the most nearby galaxies will teach us valuable lessons to connect to observations and simulations of the early Universe. ALMA and JWST studies of galaxies probe the build-up of stellar mass at high redshift and, in complement, Roman will provide statistically significant samples to study how efficient metal production is during the most vigorous stages of galactic growth. The goal of this session is to bring together expertise from the local and more distant Universe to articulate how studies of the expanding horizon of the nearby Universe, with Roman, can be connected to our understanding of the most distant objects. | Monday, January 9, 2023 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
Exhibit Hall (NASA Booth) | NASA Hyperwall Talk Completing the Galactic Census of Exoplanets with Roman, by Scott Gaudi | Monday, January 9, 2023 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM |
Exhibit Hall (NASA Booth) | NASA Hyperwall Talk Emulating Roman's grism instrument, by Austen Gabrielpillai | Monday, January 9, 2023 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM |
Exhibit Hall (NASA Booth) | NASA Hyperwall Talk Nancy Grace Roman Space TelescopeCoronagraph Instrument, by Alexandra Greenbaum | Tuesday, January 10, 2023 9:20 AM - 9:35 AM |
Room 612 | STScI Town Hall The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) serves the astronomical community through the operation of multiple NASA flagship missions including the Hubble, Webb, and Roman Space Telescopes, the development of advanced data and science archives, including Kepler and TESS, and the dissemination of astronomical information to the broadest public audiences. Offering this breadth of resources to help the scientific community advance, STScI provides support and the primary user interface for Hubble, Webb and Roman. STScI will contribute to a wide range of workshops, science sessions, splinter meetings, and exhibits throughout the meeting. | Tuesday, January 10, 2023 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM |
Exhibit Hall (NASA Booth) | NASA Hyperwall Talk Future Science with NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, by Brandon Lawton | Tuesday, January 10, 2023 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
Exhibit Hall (NASA Booth) | NASA Hyperwall Talk The Dynamic Sky with NASA's Roman Space Telescope, by Ori Fox | Tuesday, January 10, 2023 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM |
Room 618/619 | Nancy Grace Roman Town Hall The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly known as WFIRST) is a NASA flagship mission planned for launch in the mid 2020s. The Roman Space Telescope will perform breakthrough science in dark energy cosmology, exoplanet microlensing, and NIR sky surveys with its Wide Field Instrument. Roman will also feature the Coronagraph Instrument (CGI), a technology demonstration that will directly image and take spectra of exoplanetary systems using several novel technologies together for the first time in space. 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. | Tuesday, January 10, 2023 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
Room 4C-3 | Starting Now: Community-Led Definition of the Roman Core Community Surveys (Splinter Meeting) The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument (WFI) will have a large field of view (0.28 sq deg), Hubble-like sensitivity and resolution, and blistering survey speeds: the Roman Space Telescope will be capable of performing the equivalent of Hubble's largest surveys roughly 1000 times faster. Roman's WFI observing program will include both Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics surveys, defined by a combination of a community-led process and traditional peer-reviewed calls for proposals, respectively. The Core Community Surveys (CCSs) will include a High Latitude Wide Area survey, a High Latitude Time Domain survey, and a Galactic Bulge Time Domain survey. In addition to addressing the Roman Mission's science requirements related to cosmology and exoplanet demographics, the data from the CCSs will enable a host of general astrophysical investigations. | Wednesday, January 11, 2023 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
Room 4C-1 | The Future of Transient Science With the Roman Space Telescope (Splinter Meeting) The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be launched by mid 2027 and is tasked with answering three major questions; what is dark matter, what is dark energy, and what are the properties of exoplanets. These questions will be answered through the use of Roman’s Wide Field Instrument which will facilitate deep, high cadence, near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy of many square degrees of the night sky. During this session, we aim to explore all areas of transient science that could be achieved using the Roman Space Telescope. We will discuss several key areas of transient science, how future Roman observations will expand our understanding of transients, and how the various Roman monitoring observations could be tailored to better constrain their properties. | Wednesday, January 11, 2023 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM |
Exhibit Hall (NASA Booth) | NASA Hyperwall Talk Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument, by Ami Choi | Thursday, January 12, 2023 9:05 AM - 9:20 AM |
Roman Resources Available at the 241st AAS Meeting |
ROSES-22 Amendment 78: Roman Mission Research and Support Participation Opportunities (ROSES-D.14) Final Text and Due Dates
Notices of Intent are requested by January 20, 2023, and the proposal due date is March 21, 2023. The NASA point of contact concerning this program is Dominic Benford, who will be attending this AAS meeting. |
Roman Science and Technical Overview BookletThis 36-page booklet provides a current overview of the scientific capabilities, technical specifications, and operations of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It can also be found here. |
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 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.
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 715)
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.
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 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.
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 702)
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 315)
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.
Future Conference - Be Sure to Mark Your Calendars! |
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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.
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