Current time at conference location: 3:49 pm CT
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 | 9:00 AM CT - 11:30 AM CT
Session Title
A Discussion of Science Drivers for Defining Roman's Core Community Surveys
Session Type
Splinters
Room
235/236
Summary
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument (WFI) will have a large field of view (0.28 sq deg), Hubble-like sensitivity and resolution, and highly efficient survey operations. Roman's WFI observing program will include both Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics surveys, defined by a combination of a community-led process and traditional peer-reviewed calls for proposals. The Core Community Surveys will include a High Latitude Wide Area survey, a High Latitude Time Domain survey, and a Galactic Bulge Time Domain survey. In addition to addressing Roman's science requirements related to cosmology and exoplanet demographics, the science community has described an exciting range of science investigations that can be undertaken with data from these surveys, given appropriate observational strategies (https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/ccs_community_input.html).

The community-led effort to define Roman's Core Community Surveys is now underway, with the formation of the committees charged with defining the Core Community Surveys and their review of the science community's initial input. The purpose of this session is to provide attendees with an opportunity to engage with the definition committees for each survey on the prioritization of science drivers for survey definition and the identification of the most promising scientific synergies amongst the various science drivers. The session will include an introduction to each of the Core Community Survey definition committees and an overview of each committee's progress and plans, with the majority of the time reserved for discussion and community input. Approximately one-third of the time will be dedicated to each Core Community Survey. A detailed schedule for the Splinter Meeting will be available at the STScI, IPAC, and NASA booths.