Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Wide Field Imaging Instrument
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory with multiple science goals ranging from dark energy, galaxy formation, astrophysics, to exoplanets. The telescope has a 2.4m primary mirror, which is the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror, but it can image 100x the area of a Hubble image. Scheduled for launch in 2025/26 it has a primary mission of 5 years, which can be extended based on community science interests.
Roman's cosmology survey is composed of a wide-field imaging, a wide-field spectroscopic, and a supernova component. The combination of multi-band space-based imaging and deep grism spectroscopy will allow for exquisite systematics control for weak lensing, galaxy clustering, and galaxy clusters based probes. Learn more about Roman...
Our lab is involved in Roman in several ways. We are part of the Project Infrastructure Team (PIT) for the High Latitude Imaging Survey leading the deliverable on building the cosmological parameter inference pipeline (CPIP) that will constrain cosmology based on galaxy weak lensing, photometric clustering, and galaxy clusters. Learn more about multi-probe analyses with Roman and other datasets here...
We are also leading a Wide Field Survey Science team on building a Kinematic Lensing pipeline that can potentially revolutionize cosmological parameter constraints with the Roman Space Telescope. Learn more about Kinematic Lensing with Roman here...