Blog

Ori Fox posted on Dec 06, 2024
This Week in Roman 20241206

NASA ROSES Call for Proposals Now Out

NASA has released a call for proposals aimed at supporting the progress of and exploiting the scientific and technical data from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 

This program element solicits proposals to work on preparation for the operational phase of Roman, using one of two categories depending on the type of work being proposed. These are:

  • Wide Field Science (WFS)
    • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
    • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
    • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals
  • Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)
    • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
    • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support ≲$200K/year awards
    • Expect to select around three CPP proposals; [PIs] members will join the single team that plans and executes Coronagraph Instrument observations

Key Dates:

Friday, January 17, 2025: Notice of Intent.
Thursday, March 6, 2025: Proposals Are Due


Optical Telescope Assembly Attached to Instrument Carrier



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.

Check back often for any updates in the schedule

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


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)


Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.


Ori Fox posted on Nov 22, 2024
This Week in Roman 20241122

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.

Check back often for any updates in the schedule

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)


Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.


Ori Fox posted on Nov 15, 2024
This Week in Roman 20241115

Roman Telescope Assembly Arrives at Goddard

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly, which includes a 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirror, nine additional mirrors, and supporting structures and electronics. The assembly was delivered Nov. 7. to the largest clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where the observatory is being built.

Full article: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/telescope-for-nasas-roman-mission-complete-delivered-to-goddard/?linkId=653397973&utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASAScienceAA&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=653654419


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)


Sign-Up for Roman Workshops at the AAS

Roman will host two workshops at AAS that may be of interest. These workshops will provide attendees an opportunity to become familiar with Roman data products and the new cloud science platform. Workshop attendance requires advance registration. As you register for AAS in the coming weeks, please consider signing up for one.

Sunday, 12 January

  • Python Data Analysis with the James Webb and Roman Space Telescopes
  • Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: The New Cloud Science Platform

https://aas.org/meetings/aas245/workshops

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.


Ori Fox posted on Nov 08, 2024
This Week in Roman 20241108

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.

In order to deepen collaborative efforts, widely discuss the merits of various programs, and boost teaming up for White Paper submissions, a dedicated Workshop will be held in December 2024. Prior to the workshop, slides for short presentations are requested to guide the discussions for the workshop. This is aimed at members of the coordinated teams in the Roman and Subaru science communities, including NASA Roman Science Teams (WFS, PITs, CPP) and JAXA Roman science teams. Coordinated proposals from the Roman and Subaru communities are greatly encouraged. People who are not members of any Roman science team can submit proposals for presentations, but they are encouraged to coordinate with members of the existing Roman/Subaru community. Slide submission details are linked to from the workshop webpage, above. Submission of the short presentation slides is not mandatory for contributing to the talks at the Workshop or for submission of White Papers, but it is highly recommended in order to put topics in the discussion area of the workshop. The deadline for submission of pre-workshop slides is October 31, 2024.

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)


Sign-Up for Roman Workshops at the AAS

Roman will host two workshops at AAS that may be of interest. These workshops will provide attendees an opportunity to become familiar with Roman data products and the new cloud science platform. Workshop attendance requires advance registration. As you register for AAS in the coming weeks, please consider signing up for one.

Sunday, 12 January

  • Python Data Analysis with the James Webb and Roman Space Telescopes
  • Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: The New Cloud Science Platform

https://aas.org/meetings/aas245/workshops

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.


Ori Fox posted on Nov 01, 2024
This Week in Roman 20241101

Happy Halloween From Roman

Dark Matter is More Frightening Than Ever Before

Full story: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/jpl/new-nasa-posters-feature-cosmic-frights-for-halloween/


Next Roman Community Forum Rescheduled for Nov 6, 4pm Eastern: Roman Science Platform

In an email from Goddard:

Dear Roman Enthusiasts,

We are moving our next community forum back one week to Nov 6, 2024 at 4pm eastern.

Please join us to hear the latest updates on the status of the mission.

We will also have an update from the Science Operations Center on the Roman Science Platform.

Connection information below.
https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=m3deb1f08402e184606073a3870c72093


NASA Successfully Integrates Coronagraph for Roman Space Telescope

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto Roman’s Instrument Carrier, a piece of infrastructure that will hold the mission’s instruments, which will be integrated onto the larger spacecraft at a later date. The Roman Coronagraph is a technology demonstration that scientists will use to take an important step in the search for habitable worlds, and eventually life beyond Earth.

Full Story: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasa-successfully-integrates-coronagraph-for-roman-space-telescope/

ASDF office hours today 12-12:30 ET


Developers will be available to answer questions.
https://stsci.webex.com/stsci/j.php?MTID=mbed95a143f00acaac6c228bfbfd22e33

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.

In order to deepen collaborative efforts, widely discuss the merits of various programs, and boost teaming up for White Paper submissions, a dedicated Workshop will be held in December 2024. Prior to the workshop, slides for short presentations are requested to guide the discussions for the workshop. This is aimed at members of the coordinated teams in the Roman and Subaru science communities, including NASA Roman Science Teams (WFS, PITs, CPP) and JAXA Roman science teams. Coordinated proposals from the Roman and Subaru communities are greatly encouraged. People who are not members of any Roman science team can submit proposals for presentations, but they are encouraged to coordinate with members of the existing Roman/Subaru community. Slide submission details are linked to from the workshop webpage, above. Submission of the short presentation slides is not mandatory for contributing to the talks at the Workshop or for submission of White Papers, but it is highly recommended in order to put topics in the discussion area of the workshop. The deadline for submission of pre-workshop slides is October 31, 2024.

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)


2024 Roman Merch Store Now Open Through Nov 4

Get some of the trendiest Roman Merch on the market. Orders can be placed now and will remain open only through November 4th at midnight. No orders will be accepted after the closing.

Please use this link to access the 2024 Roman Merchandise store - NASA Roman Merchandise – Holiday 2024 https://romanholiday2024.itemorder.com/shop/home/



Sign-Up for Roman Workshops at the AAS

Roman will host two workshops at AAS that may be of interest. These workshops will provide attendees an opportunity to become familiar with Roman data products and the new cloud science platform. Workshop attendance requires advance registration. As you register for AAS in the coming weeks, please consider signing up for one.

Sunday, 12 January

  • Python Data Analysis with the James Webb and Roman Space Telescopes
  • Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: The New Cloud Science Platform

https://aas.org/meetings/aas245/workshops

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.



Ori Fox posted on Oct 24, 2024
This Week in Roman 20241025

Roman’s Galactic Plane Survey Definition Committee Formed

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope plans to survey the Galactic Plane for approximately one month early in the five-year mission. The Roman Project at NASA previously released a Request for Information to the science community in order to (a) solicit comments on whether to select an Early-Definition General Astrophysics Survey, and (b) to outline and submit survey concepts that would demonstrably benefit from selection as an Early-Definition General Astrophysics Survey. The committee found that there was sufficient justification to define an Early-Definition General Astrophysics Survey through a community-led process, and the top ranked concept was a survey of the Galactic plane. 

A community process to define the specifics of this survey is now underway, similar to that of the Core Community Surveys. A Galactic Plane Survey definition committee has been formed with members of the astronomical community whose scientific expertise encompasses the breadth of input presented in the 33 science pitches and 10 white papers previously submitted. The committee’s charter charges them with assessing community input, investigating various observational strategies to maximize the science return of the survey, and producing a recommendation for multiple survey options (such as a minimal, nominal, and optimal survey). The committee is expected to deliver a report summarizing the recommended survey options, including a discussion of the scientific tradeoffs, the time required, and the observational constraints of each option to the Roman Project by April, 2025 for dissemination to the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC). The ROTAC will review the input of the committees and make a recommendation to the Roman Project at NASA Goddard in Spring 2025 on the implementation of the surveys and the amount of time to be dedicated to the survey.

Galactic Plane Survey Committee Membership

  • Bob Benjamin, U Wisconsin-Whitewater (Co-chair)

  • Rachel Street, Las Cumbres Observatory (Co-chair)

  • Rachael Beaton, STScI

  • Sean Carey, Caltech/IPAC

  • Kishalay De, MIT

  • Janet Drew, University College London

  • Matthew De Furio, UT Austin

  • Thomas Kupfer, Universität Hamburg

  • Dante Minniti, Universidad Andrés Bello

  • Roberta Paladini, Caltech/IPAC

  • Eddie Schlafly, STScI

  • Catherine Zucker, CfA | Harvard & Smithsonian


Next Roman Community Forum Oct 30, 4pm Eastern: Roman Science Platform

In an email from Goddard:

Dear Roman Enthusiasts,

Our next community forum will be held Wednesday October 30 at 4pm Eastern. Please join us to hear the latest updates on the status of the mission.

We will also have an update from the Science Operations Center on the Roman Science Platform.

Connection information below.
https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=m3deb1f08402e184606073a3870c72093


Roman Aces Crucial 'Spin Test'

A major component of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just took a spin on the centrifuge at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Called the Outer Barrel Assembly, this piece of the observatory is designed to keep the telescope at a stable temperature and shield it from stray light.

Full Story: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasas-roman-space-telescopes-exoskeleton-whirls-through-major-test/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASAGoddard&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=627211032

Full 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.

In order to deepen collaborative efforts, widely discuss the merits of various programs, and boost teaming up for White Paper submissions, a dedicated Workshop will be held in December 2024. Prior to the workshop, slides for short presentations are requested to guide the discussions for the workshop. This is aimed at members of the coordinated teams in the Roman and Subaru science communities, including NASA Roman Science Teams (WFS, PITs, CPP) and JAXA Roman science teams. Coordinated proposals from the Roman and Subaru communities are greatly encouraged. People who are not members of any Roman science team can submit proposals for presentations, but they are encouraged to coordinate with members of the existing Roman/Subaru community. Slide submission details are linked to from the workshop webpage, above. Submission of the short presentation slides is not mandatory for contributing to the talks at the Workshop or for submission of White Papers, but it is highly recommended in order to put topics in the discussion area of the workshop. The deadline for submission of pre-workshop slides is October 31, 2024.

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)


Last Call: "Transients From Space" Abstract Deadline Friday Nov1

Transients From Space Workshop
March 11th – March 13th, 2025
Abstract Due Nov 1!

Save the Date! We are pleased to announce that the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will host a workshop on transients and time-domain astronomy titled “Transients From Space” (TFS) on March 11-13, 2025 at STScI in Baltimore, MD.

Transient science is entering an exciting new era of discovery. The 2020 Decadal Survey named Time Domain Astronomy (TDA) as a top priority, and NASA’s Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) program has prioritized Time Domain And Multi-Messenger (TDAMM) astrophysics. New discoveries will be greatly impacted by space-based telescopes, including, but not limited to, HST, JWST, Swift, Fermi, TESS, Euclid, UVEX, ULTRASAT, LISA, and Roman. These telescopes probe new phase space in time, wavelength, and redshift, thereby opening up new sub-fields. This STScI workshop will explore novel research made possible by these telescopes and discuss how the community can optimize scientific output in the future. It will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Read more at full website: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/events/stsci/2025/march/transients-from-space


2024 Roman Merch Store Now Open Through Nov 4

Get some of the trendiest Roman Merch on the market. Orders can be placed now and will remain open only through November 4th at midnight. No orders will be accepted after the closing.

Please use this link to access the 2024 Roman Merchandise store - NASA Roman Merchandise – Holiday 2024 https://romanholiday2024.itemorder.com/shop/home/



Sign-Up for Roman Workshops at the AAS

Roman will host two workshops at AAS that may be of interest. These workshops will provide attendees an opportunity to become familiar with Roman data products and the new cloud science platform. Workshop attendance requires advance registration. As you register for AAS in the coming weeks, please consider signing up for one.

Sunday, 12 January

  • Python Data Analysis with the James Webb and Roman Space Telescopes
  • Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: The New Cloud Science Platform

https://aas.org/meetings/aas245/workshops

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.



Ori Fox posted on Oct 18, 2024
This Week in Roman 20241018

Roman Project and PITS Meet for Roman Quarterly Oct 2024

Last week on Oct 10, the Roman Project met with the PITS at IPAC in Pasadena, CA to discuss progress on infrastructure development. All of the talks are now posted on the Science Quarterly confluence page. 
https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/ISWG/Science+Quarterly



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.

In order to deepen collaborative efforts, widely discuss the merits of various programs, and boost teaming up for White Paper submissions, a dedicated Workshop will be held in December 2024. Prior to the workshop, slides for short presentations are requested to guide the discussions for the workshop. This is aimed at members of the coordinated teams in the Roman and Subaru science communities, including NASA Roman Science Teams (WFS, PITs, CPP) and JAXA Roman science teams. Coordinated proposals from the Roman and Subaru communities are greatly encouraged. People who are not members of any Roman science team can submit proposals for presentations, but they are encouraged to coordinate with members of the existing Roman/Subaru community. Slide submission details are linked to from the workshop webpage, above. Submission of the short presentation slides is not mandatory for contributing to the talks at the Workshop or for submission of White Papers, but it is highly recommended in order to put topics in the discussion area of the workshop. The deadline for submission of pre-workshop slides is October 31, 2024.

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)


Transients From Space Workshop at STScI: Abstract Deadline Friday Nov1

Transients From Space Workshop
March 11th – March 13th, 2025
Abstract Due Nov 1!

Save the Date! We are pleased to announce that the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will host a workshop on transients and time-domain astronomy titled “Transients From Space” (TFS) on March 11-13, 2025 at STScI in Baltimore, MD.

Transient science is entering an exciting new era of discovery. The 2020 Decadal Survey named Time Domain Astronomy (TDA) as a top priority, and NASA’s Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) program has prioritized Time Domain And Multi-Messenger (TDAMM) astrophysics. New discoveries will be greatly impacted by space-based telescopes, including, but not limited to, HST, JWST, Swift, Fermi, TESS, Euclid, UVEX, ULTRASAT, LISA, and Roman. These telescopes probe new phase space in time, wavelength, and redshift, thereby opening up new sub-fields. This STScI workshop will explore novel research made possible by these telescopes and discuss how the community can optimize scientific output in the future. It will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Read more at full website: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/events/stsci/2025/march/transients-from-space


2024 Roman Merch Store Now Open Through Nov 4

Get some of the trendiest Roman Merch on the market. Orders can be placed now and will remain open only through November 4th at midnight. No orders will be accepted after the closing.

Please use this link to access the 2024 Roman Merchandise store - NASA Roman Merchandise – Holiday 2024 https://romanholiday2024.itemorder.com/shop/home/



Sign-Up for Roman Workshops at the AAS

Roman will host two workshops at AAS that may be of interest. These workshops will provide attendees an opportunity to become familiar with Roman data products and the new cloud science platform. Workshop attendance requires advance registration. As you register for AAS in the coming weeks, please consider signing up for one.

Sunday, 12 January

  • Python Data Analysis with the James Webb and Roman Space Telescopes
  • Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: The New Cloud Science Platform

https://aas.org/meetings/aas245/workshops

Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.



Ori Fox posted on Oct 04, 2024
This Week in Roman 20241004

ASDF Office Hours Today (Friday) 12-1pm ET

Looking to better under Roman's ASDF file format? The ASDF development team at the SOC has extended an invitation to the community for monthly ASDF Office Hours. These are open to everyone and will be held every first Friday of the month (starting next Friday, Oct 4) from 12-1pm ET. The session will start with a short (~10 min) presentation on a topic related to ASDF and will be open for questions and discussions. The goal is to provide an opportunity to directly interact with the development team, answer questions about ASDF, Roman use of ASDF, and get feedback from the community.

Suggestions for topics or questions can be added to the wiki page or as Github issues to this repository. More information about the planned topics and how to connect is on Github. 

Dial-In Info: https://stsci.webex.com/stsci/j.php?MTID=mbed95a143f00acaac6c228bfbfd22e33


Sign-Up for Roman Workshops at the AAS

Roman will host two workshops at AAS that may be of interest. These workshops will provide attendees an opportunity to become familiar with Roman data products and the new cloud science platform. Workshop attendance requires advance registration. As you register for AAS in the coming weeks, please consider signing up for one.

Sunday, 12 January

  • Python Data Analysis with the James Webb and Roman Space Telescopes
  • Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: The New Cloud Science Platform

https://aas.org/meetings/aas245/workshops

New Video on Final Stages of Assembly of Spacecraft

In September 2024, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope passed a key milestone and was approved for the next stage of construction. Work on the main systems that will make up the final spacecraft is finishing, and the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is ready to begin integration, the process of connecting them together. This video celebrates the effort to reach the final stages of assembly.



Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.



Ori Fox posted on Sep 27, 2024
This Week in Roman 20240927

ASDF Office Hours Friday 12-1pm ET

Looking to better under Roman's ASDF file format? The ASDF development team at the SOC has extended an invitation to the community for monthly ASDF Office Hours. These are open to everyone and will be held every first Friday of the month (starting next Friday, Oct 4) from 12-1pm ET. The session will start with a short (~10 min) presentation on a topic related to ASDF and will be open for questions and discussions. The goal is to provide an opportunity to directly interact with the development team, answer questions about ASDF, Roman use of ASDF, and get feedback from the community.

Suggestions for topics or questions can be added to the wiki page or as Github issues to this repository. More information about the planned topics and how to connect is on Github. 

Dial-In Info: https://stsci.webex.com/stsci/j.php?MTID=mbed95a143f00acaac6c228bfbfd22e33




Type Ia SN Cosmology PIT Hosts a Webinar on DEIA Planning

As part of the SN Cosmology PIT’s DEIA plan, they recently hosted a session led by Duke’s Office of Inclusion on ‘Equitable Hiring Practices: Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Your Unit and Beginning to Create a Positive Climate in Which to Bring New Staff’ (screenshot below).  Given a number of Roman teams are hiring this fall, they thought it would be good to advertise this broadly and all are welcome. They are tracking participation numbers, so please take a moment to watch.

The full recording can be found here.



ROSES Call for Input By October 1: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Research and Support Participation Opportunities

NASA ROSES will have another funding opportunity for Roman related tools and research in 2025. A draft solicitation is currently available and comments on the details and scope of work are being requested by October 1, 2024. The scope of the program is currently written as follows:

Wide Field Science (WFS)

  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of
    Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and
    Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of
    Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals

Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)

  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument
    team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support
    ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select two or three CPP proposals, which will join the single team that
    plans and exec


For details on the entire solicitation and how to submit comments, please go to the NASA ROSES website: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId=%7B13570A2B-EE5C-553E-B73A-6312B84CFDAA%7D&path=open


Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.



Ori Fox posted on Sep 20, 2024
This Week in Roman 20240920

Roman Workshops at the AAS

Roman will host two workshops at AAS that may be of interest. These workshops will provide attendees an opportunity to become familiar with Roman data products and the new cloud science platform. Workshop attendance requires advance registration. As you register for AAS next week, please consider signing up for one.

Sunday, 12 January

  • Python Data Analysis with the James Webb and Roman Space Telescopes
  • Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: The New Cloud Science Platform

https://aas.org/meetings/aas245/workshops


Next Roman Community Forum Sept 25

Announced By Goddard:

Our next Roman Community Forum will be on Wednesday September 25 from 1-2 PM Pacific / 4-5 PM Eastern.

This month we will hear from the Roman Coronagraph Project Systems Engineer Ilya Poberezhskiy (JPL) who will give updates about the Coronagraph (e.g., its full-functional and thermal vacuum tests and delivery to Goddard) and from Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP) co-lead Dmitry Savransky (Cornell) who will give an overview of the work being done by the CPP.

Slides from previous forums are posted to the forum website.

Below is the WebEx information for this meeting. We hope to see you there.

https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=me32f90023b10adacf2212b395ca8198f


Roman in the News

Roman Saw Big Press This Week!

NASA Completes Spacecraft to Transport, Support Roman Space Telescope

The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing.

Full Story: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasa-completes-spacecraft-to-transport-support-roman-space-telescope/

PROFILE: THE SEARCHERS - Washington Post

Dave Eggers on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab

In all likelihood, in the next 25 years, we’ll find evidence of life on another planet. I’m willing to say this because I’m not a scientist and I don’t work in media relations for NASA. But all evidence points to us getting closer, every year, to identifying moons in our solar system, or exoplanets beyond it, that can sustain life. And if we don’t find conditions for life on the moons near us, we’ll find it on exoplanets — that is, planets outside our solar system. Within the next few decades, we’ll likely find an exoplanet that has an atmosphere, that has water, that has carbon and methane and oxygen. Or some combination of those things.

Full story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/dave-eggers-jet-propulsion-laboratory-nasa-who-is-government/?itid=hp_latest-headlines_p001_f011


ROSES Call for Input By October 1: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Research and Support Participation Opportunities

NASA ROSES will have another funding opportunity for Roman related tools and research in 2025. A draft solicitation is currently available and comments on the details and scope of work are being requested by October 1, 2024. The scope of the program is currently written as follows:

Wide Field Science (WFS)

  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of
    Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and
    Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of
    Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals

Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)

  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument
    team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support
    ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select two or three CPP proposals, which will join the single team that
    plans and exec


For details on the entire solicitation and how to submit comments, please go to the NASA ROSES website: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId=%7B13570A2B-EE5C-553E-B73A-6312B84CFDAA%7D&path=open


Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.



Rachel Street posted on Sep 13, 2024
Roman Galactic Plane Survey Kickoff Meeting

The Roman Galactic Plane Survey Committee had a productive kick off meeting this week (Sept 11, 2024). After roundtable introductions and a review of the Roman code of conduct, the committee discussed its objectives and charter, in the context of the Core Community Surveys, as well as the expected deliverables. These will include reports to ROTAC and to the wider community, with preliminary findings anticipated early in the new year, and the group considered the best ways to share these findings. The committee’s first task is to review all of the White Papers and science pitches submitted during the recent solicitation, and we appreciate the many community contributed papers received. 

Ori Fox posted on Sep 13, 2024
This Week in Roman 20240913

Due Today: CCS Virtual Town Halls Surveys 

The CCS Virtual Town Halls wrapped up last week and have been a great success. Unlike HST and JWST, where observations are driven by proposals each cycle, the CCS must be planned and scheduled prior to launch. These town halls provide an opportunity for the science community to weigh in on the process before the surveys are finalized by the definition committees.

All Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSOpiiKFz8rQlaxk_US8STw_p4up1Ozy

Slides:

Feedback Forms: These surveys serve as a critical part of our process to insure that all voices in the community are heard. It is the Project's intention the CCS surveys serves a broad range of the community. If you haven't already done so, please take an opportunity to fill out this form. It should take no more than 5-10 minutes. They will be due today: Friday, Sep 13. 


ROSES Call for Input By October 1: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Research and Support Participation Opportunities

NASA ROSES will have another funding opportunity for Roman related tools and research in 2025. A draft solicitation is currently available and comments on the details and scope of work are being requested by October 1, 2024. The scope of the program is currently written as follows:

Wide Field Science (WFS)

  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of
    Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and
    Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of
    Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals

Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)

  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument
    team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support
    ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select two or three CPP proposals, which will join the single team that
    plans and exec


For details on the entire solicitation and how to submit comments, please go to the NASA ROSES website: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId=%7B13570A2B-EE5C-553E-B73A-6312B84CFDAA%7D&path=open


The Galactic Plane Survey Definition Committee Held Their Kickoff Meeting

The GPS planning is underway! Check out their first blog post.


STScI Visits Roman @ Goddard

Over 30 STScI Staff took a field trip down the street (BW Parkway) to see the Roman hardware at Goddard. Thank you to the Project Science Office at Goddard for putting on such a great visit. 


Have Something to Share or Promote? Submit Your Own Announcement

Roman is a community mission. To that end, we encourage you to share and submit your own announcements in our weekly newsletter. Please submit any request here.


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.



Ori Fox posted on Sep 06, 2024
This Week in Roman 20240906

CCS Virtual Town Halls Recordings and Slides Now Online

The CCS Virtual Town Halls wrapped up this week and have been a great success. Unlike HST and JWST, where observations are driven by proposals each cycle, the CCS must be planned and scheduled prior to launch. These town halls provide an opportunity for the science community to weigh in on the process before the surveys are finalized by the definition committees.

All Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSOpiiKFz8rQlaxk_US8STw_p4up1Ozy

Slides:

Feedback Forms: These surveys serve as a critical part of our process to insure that all voices in the community are heard. It is the Project's intention the CCS surveys serves a broad range of the community. If you haven't already done so, please take an opportunity to fill out this form. It should take no more than 5-10 minutes. They will be due on Friday, Sep 13. 


Transients From Space Workshop at STScI: Abstract Submission Now Open!

Transients From Space Workshop
March 11th – March 13th, 2025
Abstract Submission Now Open!

Save the Date! We are pleased to announce that the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will host a workshop on transients and time-domain astronomy titled “Transients From Space” (TFS) on March 11-13, 2025 at STScI in Baltimore, MD.

Transient science is entering an exciting new era of discovery. The 2020 Decadal Survey named Time Domain Astronomy (TDA) as a top priority, and NASA’s Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) program has prioritized Time Domain And Multi-Messenger (TDAMM) astrophysics. New discoveries will be greatly impacted by space-based telescopes, including, but not limited to, HST, JWST, Swift, Fermi, TESS, Euclid, UVEX, ULTRASAT, LISA, and Roman. These telescopes probe new phase space in time, wavelength, and redshift, thereby opening up new sub-fields. This STScI workshop will explore novel research made possible by these telescopes and discuss how the community can optimize scientific output in the future. It will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.

Read more at full website: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/events/stsci/2025/march/transients-from-space


ROSES Call for Input By October 1: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Research and Support Participation Opportunities

NASA ROSES will have another funding opportunity for Roman related tools and research in 2025. A draft solicitation is currently available and comments on the details and scope of work are being requested by October 1, 2024. The scope of the program is currently written as follows:

Wide Field Science (WFS)

  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of
    Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and
    Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of
    Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals

Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)

  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument
    team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support
    ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select two or three CPP proposals, which will join the single team that
    plans and exec


For details on the entire solicitation and how to submit comments, please go to the NASA ROSES website: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId=%7B13570A2B-EE5C-553E-B73A-6312B84CFDAA%7D&path=open


Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.



Ori Fox posted on Aug 30, 2024
This Week in Roman 20240830

CCS Virtual Town Halls Recordings and Slides Now Online

The CCS Virtual Town Halls kicked off this week and have been a great success. Unlike HST and JWST, where observations are driven by proposals each cycle, the CCS must be planned and scheduled prior to launch. These town halls provide an opportunity for the science community to weigh in on the process before the surveys are finalized by the definition committees. We encourage all interested parties to submit feedback via a short 5-10 minute survey.

All Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSOpiiKFz8rQlaxk_US8STw_p4up1Ozy

Feedback Form: https://forms.gle/4UogRf4KS2RkADHY7

Slides:

If you missed the first round of talks, the recordings and slides are now available online. You will also have a second opportunity to see live talks next week (see schedule below).


Virtual Town Halls for Roman’s Core Community Surveys Continue This Week

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will devote a majority of the first five years of the mission to surveys that are being defined by the science community. This includes Roman’s Core Community Surveys (CCSs), which serve to meet Roman’s mission-level science requirements for investigating the nature of dark energy and the fate of the universe, and the demographics of exoplanets. The CCSs consist of the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey (GBTDS), High Latitude Time-Domain Survey (HLTDS), and High Latitude Wide Area Survey (HLWAS). The primary goal for the definition of each of the CCSs is to maximize the science performed with Roman’s infrared surveys.

To define the details of each survey (e.g., field selection, filter selection and depth, observation cadence, etc), a definition committee has been formed for each of the three CCSs comprised of members of the community. The committee membership was selected to ensure that the breadth of interests of the scientific community in using Roman’s CCSs was well represented. The committees have been charged with assessing community input, investigating various observational strategies to maximize the science return of the surveys, and producing a recommendation for multiple survey options (such as a minimal, nominal, and optimal survey definition). The committees are expected to deliver a report summarizing the recommended survey options, including a discussion of the scientific tradeoffs, the time required, and the observational constraints of each option to the Roman Project at NASA Goddard by November 1, 2024 for dissemination to the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC). The ROTAC will review the input of the committees and make a recommendation to the Roman Project by January 2025 on the implementation of the surveys and the amount of time to be dedicated to each survey.

The CCS definition committees would like to have community feedback and input on the survey options and strategies they are considering. Each CCS committee will hold two virtual town halls spread over two weeks, in late August / early September, to give a progress report and hear from the community. There will also be an opportunity for online feedback submission. The times of the town halls aim at maximizing attendance over different time zones.

Dial-in Info: 

Webex link: https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=mc21600f4a19d761d3ccebeac0b77ec67

Meeting number (access code): 2821 833 2150
Meeting password: sBVgvmR@337 (72848671 when dialing from a phone or video system)

Schedule:

Tue Sep 3
    -7pm EDT: HLTDS - Masao Sako

Wed Sep 4
    -10am EDT: GBTDS - Jessie Christiansen

Thur Sep 5
    -10am EDT: HLWAS - Ryan Hickox

If you have any questions, please email help@stsci.edu with the subject title “Question about Roman CCS Town Halls."

We look forward to having you join us in the coming weeks.

On behalf of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope’s Project Scientist Team at NASA Goddard’s Project Science Office (PSO), the Science Support Center (SSC) at IPAC, and the Science Operations Center (SOC) at STScI.


Planned Call for White Papers and a Workshop for Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observations

There is a planned call for White Papers (due January 31, 2025) and a workshop (December 16-18 in Tokyo) in support of defining a plan for 100 nights of Roman-Subaru Synergistic Observations.

More details about thew call for White Papers and the workshop can be found here: ir.isas.jaxa.jp/Roman_VI/Roman-Subaru_announcement_202408.htm

A web page for the workshop is here: Roman-Subaru VI (jaxa.jp)


Roman Public Lecture: NASA's Next Big Thing: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Speaker: Ori Fox
Date: Tuesday, Sep 03, 2024 at 8pm

NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is readying for launch in late 2026. Roman will be able to survey the sky 1,000 times faster than Hubble. It will collect near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic data with Hubble-quality resolution and sensitivity over fields of view 200 times greater than Hubble. Roman's data will enrich all areas of astrophysics by enabling studies of nearly every class of astronomical object, phenomenon, and environment across the observable universe. Dr. Fox will discuss the details of the Roman mission, with a focus on its scientific goals. These exciting studies include the discovery of thousands of new planets and pinpointing the source of a mysterious force called dark energy that permeates our universe.

Join the live webcast: https://youtube.com/live/NtWl9a6NQMw?feature=share
The recorded webcast will be available online the following day.



Stay Connected and Up To Date

Excited about all the progress with Roman? Want to stay in the know? Now is the time to join the Roman community.

If you are already part of the Roman community, please consider importing our calendar to stay up to date, joining one of the new working groups, and contributing to Roman participation in AAS.



Ori Fox posted on Aug 23, 2024
This Week in Roman 20240823

Virtual Town Halls for Roman’s Core Community Surveys Begin Aug 26

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will devote a majority of the first five years of the mission to surveys that are being defined by the science community. This includes Roman’s Core Community Surveys (CCSs), which serve to meet Roman’s mission-level science requirements for investigating the nature of dark energy and the fate of the universe, and the demographics of exoplanets. The CCSs consist of the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey (GBTDS), High Latitude Time-Domain Survey (HLTDS), and High Latitude Wide Area Survey (HLWAS). The primary goal for the definition of each of the CCSs is to maximize the science performed with Roman’s infrared surveys.

To define the details of each survey (e.g., field selection, filter selection and depth, observation cadence, etc), a definition committee has been formed for each of the three CCSs comprised of members of the community. The committee membership was selected to ensure that the breadth of interests of the scientific community in using Roman’s CCSs was well represented. The committees have been charged with assessing community input, investigating various observational strategies to maximize the science return of the surveys, and producing a recommendation for multiple survey options (such as a minimal, nominal, and optimal survey definition). The committees are expected to deliver a report summarizing the recommended survey options, including a discussion of the scientific tradeoffs, the time required, and the observational constraints of each option to the Roman Project at NASA Goddard by November 1, 2024 for dissemination to the Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC). The ROTAC will review the input of the committees and make a recommendation to the Roman Project by January 2025 on the implementation of the surveys and the amount of time to be dedicated to each survey.

The CCS definition committees would like to have community feedback and input on the survey options and strategies they are considering. Each CCS committee will hold two virtual town halls spread over two weeks, in late August / early September, to give a progress report and hear from the community. There will also be an opportunity for online feedback submission. The times of the town halls aim at maximizing attendance over different time zones.

Dial-in Info: 

Webex link: https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=mc21600f4a19d761d3ccebeac0b77ec67

Meeting number (access code): 2821 833 2150
Meeting password: sBVgvmR@337 (72848671 when dialing from a phone or video system)

Schedule:

Mon Aug 26
    -7pm EDT: GBTDS - Daniel Huber

Wed Aug 28
    -10am EDT: HLTDS - Brad Cenko

Thu Aug 29
    -7pm EDT: HLWAS - Ryan Hickox

Tue Sep 3
    -7pm EDT: HLTDS - Masao Sako

Wed Sep 4
    -10am EDT: GBTDS - Jessie Christiansen

Thur Sep 5
    -10am EDT: HLWAS - Ryan Hickox

If you have any questions, please email help@stsci.edu with the subject title “Question about Roman CCS Town Halls."

We look forward to having you join us in the coming weeks.

On behalf of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope’s Project Scientist Team at NASA Goddard’s Project Science Office (PSO), the Science Support Center (SSC) at IPAC, and the Science Operations Center (SOC) at STScI.

Roman's Next Community Forum Aug 28

Announced from Goddard:

Hi Roman Space Telescope Enthusiasts,

We have out next community forum planned for next Wednesday (8/28) at 4pm eastern time. This month we are focusing on the Wide Field Instrument. WFI arrived at Goddard a couple of weeks ago having completed all instrument-level testing and is moving on toward payload integration.

We will have a detailed update on the testing that was performed on the instrument, and the data that was collected. Additionally, we will have a presentation from the Calibration Working Group.

Detailed discussions and analysis of the data collected from the Wide Field Instrument during the ground test campaigns occur at the weekly Calibration Working Group meeting. To signup to join this and the other working groups use this link.

Slides from previous forums are posted to the forum website.

Below is the WebEx information for this meeting. We hope to see you there.

https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/j.php?MTID=mbdb9e0e552be33ff67ae0979fdfc7ae5

New Pictures of Roman's Wide Field Instrument 

New pictures are now posted of Roman's WFI in Goddard's clean room!