[ASA] Fwd: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Science Team Virtual Community Briefing

[Sarah Brough]

Hi All,

This workshop may be of interest.

Cheers, Sarah

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Subject: 	Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Science Team Virtual 
Community Briefing
Date: 	Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:27:14 -0400
From: 	Space Telescope Science Institute <stscigeneric at stsci.edu>
To: 	Sarah Brough <s.brough at unsw.edu.au>



The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZMwNC0YKPviGqrzzjIwv9ca?domain=roman.gsfc.nasa.gov> 
project is organizing a virtual community workshop on November 15-19, 
2021 <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xi_0CgZ0N1iAOYJJ8uoV6wJ?domain=roman.gsfc.nasa.gov>. Anyone 
interested in learning about the status of the Roman mission and its 
very broad range of science capabilities is invited to attend. The 
workshop goal is to share with the astronomical community the extensive 
work that has been done by the outgoing Romanscience investigation teams 
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CswZCjZ1N7inKy00gT5Ve05?domain=roman.gsfc.nasa.gov> to provide 
scientific support for mission design activities. The workshop will 
focus on science with the Wide-Field Instrument 
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/KJGKCk81N9tO8qvvgh9Bp0I?domain=roman.gsfc.nasa.gov>, with a 
separate session about the coronagraph 
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_zezClx1Nji20zllLf1W7rQ?domain=roman.gsfc.nasa.gov> technology-demonstration 
instrument occurring in late October. 
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5aNYCmO5glujBRqqvFDI3cA?domain=roman.ipac.caltech.edu>
Roman is a NASA Astrophysics Observatory featuring a 2.4m 
near-infrared-optimized telescope with a wide-field survey instrument 
and a coronagraph technology-demonstration instrument. Roman is due to 
launch in the mid 2020s and will address many fundamental questions in 
the areas of cosmology, exoplanets, and infrared survey astrophysics. In 
2015, NASA selected eleven science investigation teams, comprising over 
300 people, that span a broad range of astrophysical subfields 
(including, e.g., cosmology, exoplanets, galaxy evolution, stellar 
populations, and archival research methods). These teams have 
contributed significantly to shaping the current mission design and 
operations concept. Their work is now complete, and new science 
opportunities will be solicited by NASA in early 2022.
The workshop will start with a project overview of the mission and its 
status, and the capabilities being developed by the mission’s science 
operations and support centers. Each science investigation team will 
then share their Roman-related activities and results, which include:

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    Evaluation of science and calibration requirements and instrument
    performance.
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    Design of notional observing programs.
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    Development of data analysis techniques and software.
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    Scientific simulations.
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    Precursor observations.

By sharing this information, future science community activities will be 
able to leverage the knowledge and tools that have already been 
developed. The actual implementation of Roman’s core surveys remains to 
be defined through an open, community-driven process.
Detailed information on the workshop content and on how to participate 
are available from the following webpage 
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xi_0CgZ0N1iAOYJJ8uoV6wJ?domain=roman.gsfc.nasa.gov>.
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