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Key Resources

Listed below are several resources which provide the mission and instrument parameters, technical performance models, and laboratory measurements.

Roman Observatory Overview

  • Mission and Observatory Technical Overview
  • Roman Core Community Surveys
  • Reference Information
  • Spreadsheets

    • Wide-Field Instrument

  • Survey science with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument (Schlieder et al. 2024)
  • WFI and Observatory Performance
  • Anticipated performance Tables for the WFI
  • WFI Triplet Test Data
  • WFI Bright Star Saturation Test Data
  • WFI Calibration Touchstone Fields Recommendation Report (.pdf)
  • WFI Bright Star Saturation Response and Persistence Properties (.pdf)
  • WFI Parallel Observations During Coronagraph Instrument Primary Operations (.pdf)

    • Roman Overview Papers

  • 100 Hubbles for the 2020s (Akeson et al. 2019)
  • 2015 Report by the Science Definition Team (Spergel et al. 2015)


    • Coronagraph Instrument

  • Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Overview and Status (Bailey et al. 2023)
  • Coronagraph Instrument Parameters
  • Additional Coronagraph Instrument Parameters, Models and Data
  • Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Public Simulated Images
  • Coronagraph Fact Sheet (.pdf)
  • Roman Coronagraph Instrument (.pdf)

    • Roman Technical Information

  • Roman Technical Information GitHub


    • Additional Resources

    Listed below are several additional resources that provide information on the Roman mission.

    Roman Project Websites

  • NASA's Roman public website
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA
  • Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
  • Caltech/IPAC

    • Roman Software and Simulation Tools

  • STScI Roman Science Planning Toolbox
  • IPAC Roman Simulation Repository

    Roman Fact Sheets

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  • Mission & Capabilities Overview (.pdf)
  • Surveying the Sky (.pdf)
  • Stars by the Billions (.pdf)
  • Galaxies by the Millions (.pdf)
  • Cosmology (.pdf)
  • Compiled Spacecraft and Instrument parameters

    • Roman General Astrophysics Ideas and White Papers

  • Roman Core Community Survey White Papers
  • Selection of Roman-related ASTRO2020 decadal white papers
  • List of Roman-related science papers

    • SIT Resources

  • Web interface to Chris Hirata’s WFIRST Galaxy Survey Exposure Time Calculator
  • Cosmic Dawn SIT javascript WFI exposure time calculator
  • Formulation Science Team Summary Workshop

    • Core Community Survey Resources

  • Supernova Survey memo (.pdf)
  • High latitude time domain survey presentation (.pdf)
  • High Latitude Survey memo (.docx)
  • HLS presentation (.pdf)
  • Microlensing simulation paper (Penny et al) (.pdf)
  • Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey presentation (.ppt)
  • Interim Report: The Community Definition of Roman’s Core Community Surveys
  • Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee (ROTAC) Final Report and Recommendations
    • These can be found at https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/romancaa/ (under Design Reference Mission).

    Science Centers

  • Science Support Center (IPAC) pipelines and science processing (.pdf)
  • Science Operations Center (STScI) pipelines and science processing (.pdf)
  • Roman Documentation (RDox)




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