17 papers
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: calibration strategy for the Mueller matrix using on-sky sources
Toshiyuki Mizuki, Justin Hom, Bertrand Mennesson +14
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will provide space-based polarimetric observations of circumstellar disks and exoplanetary systems. Accurate reconstruc…
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: early calibration plan and pilot observation of a companion
Julien H. Girard, Eric Cady, Neil T. Zimmerman +42
Roman is set to launch in weeks! The Coronagraph Instrument - technology pathfinder for future direct imaging missions - is ready to fly too. According to predictions, laboratory t…
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: target database and tools
Dmitry Savransky, Rifah Tasnim, Saanika Choudhary +13
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in Fall 2026, will carry the Coronagraph Instrument, which will, for the first time, demonstrate high-contrast imaging with act…
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: Observation planning and data reduction for polarimetric mode
Ramya M Anche, Toshiyuki Mizuki, Justin Hom +25
Reflected-light polarimetry of exoplanets constrains and resolves degeneracies in atmospheric properties, while polarized light observations of debris disks enable the characteriza…
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: trials and triumphs of designing an observing program for a technology demonstration instrument
Schuyler G. Wolff, Vanessa P. Bailey, Justin Hom +19
The Coronagraph Instrument onboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope serves as a crucial technology pathfinder for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, with on-sky verification of…
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: pre-launch reference star list and impact of reference star properties on post-processing performance
Justin Hom, Schuyler G. Wolff, Jessica Gersh-Range +51
The upcoming Roman Coronagraph will be the first high-contrast instrument in space capable of high-order wavefront sensing and control technologies, a critical technology demonstra…