Current time at conference location: 7:21 pm ET
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | 2:00 PM ET - 3:30 PM ET
Session Title
Enhancing the Science of the Roman Space Telescope with Simulations
Session Type
Splinters
Room
Chesapeake D/E
Summary
With a Wide Field Instrument (WFI) delivering Hubble-like resolution over roughly 100 times the instantaneous area, and an observatory designed to enable large-area surveys nearly three orders of magnitude faster than HST, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will produce expansive surveys that transform our understanding of dark energy, dark matter, galaxies, and exoplanets. In order to help plan for and take full advantage of the Roman surveys, as well as test data reduction and analysis algorithms currently being developed, it is essential to create detailed simulated Roman photometric, morphological and spectroscopic datasets. Roman will launch in late 2026 with data products publicly available in early 2027, making the availability and coordination of simulated Roman data in the community extremely timely. In that spirit, the Roman Simulations Working Group has recently formed with the goal of providing a forum to the community to coordinate simulation efforts and discussion of simulated data products and tools. This session will have a short introduction to the Simulations Working Group scope and goals and will bring together observers and theorists to discuss existing Roman simulation resources and plan for additional simulations to maximize the scientific return from Roman’s Core Community, Galactic Plane, and General Astrophysics surveys.