Roman Calendar at the AAS

The AAS schedule is now posted. Roman will have a strong presence, with many booths, town halls, workshops, special sessions, and splinter meetings, not to mention all the great science talks and posters. Make sure to check out our compiled list of high-level events. You can always add them to your calendar by simply subscribing to our own Roman Calendar. If you notice anything missing, please let us know.

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AAS245 Roman events (as scheduled - similarly colored items denote conflicts)

Roman Optics Have Arrived (Last Part!)

Roman's optics have arrived in style from L3Harris. This is the final hardware component to arrive at Goddard, meaning all the pieces of Roman are here and ready to be put together! Check out this fantastic video.


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)


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