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most citedSimulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints

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astro-ph.IM2026

Three-dimensional scene reconstruction using Roman slitless spectra

Tri L. Astraatmadja, Andrew S. Fruchter, Susana E. Deustua +10

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will carry out a wide-field imaging and slitless spectroscopic survey of Type Ia Supernovae to improve our understanding of dark energy. Cruci…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

phrosty: A difference imaging pipeline for Roman

Lauren Aldoroty, Lei Hu, Rob Knop +11

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will provide an opportunity to study dark energy with unprecedented precision using several techniques, including measurements of T…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Hourglass Simulation: A Catalog for the Roman High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey

B. M. Rose, M. Vincenzi, R. Hounsell +12

We present a simulation of the time-domain catalog for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey. This simulation, called the Hourglas…

astro-ph.IM2025

Initial Characterization of Stellar Photometry of Roman images from the OpenUniverse Simulations

Lauren Aldoroty, Daniel Scolnic, Arun Kannawadi +4

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will provide an opportunity to study dark energy with unprecedented precision and accuracy using several techniques, including meas…

astro-ph.IM2025

TESSELLATE: Piecing Together the Variable Sky With TESS

Hugh Roxburgh, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Andrew Moore +13

We present TESSELLATE, a dedicated pipeline for performing an untargeted search documenting all variable phenomena captured by the TESS space telescope. Building on the TESSreduce…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Roman CCS White Paper: Measuring Type Ia Supernovae Discovered in the Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey

Rebekah Hounsell, Dan Scolnic, Dillon Brout +14

We motivate the cosmological science case of measuring Type Ia supernovae with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as part of the High Latitude Time Domain Survey. We discuss pre…

astro-ph.IM2023

Roman CCS White Paper: Options to Increase the Coverage Area of Prism Time Series in the High-Latitude Time Domain Core Community Survey

Benjamin Rose, Sebastian Gomez, Rebekah Hounsell +4

The current reference High-latitude time domain survey increases the completeness of transients with prism temporal time series data by adjusting the ratio of prism-to-imaging time…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Roman CCS White Paper: Considerations for Selecting Fields for the Roman High-latitude Time Domain Core Community Survey

Benjamin Rose, Greg Aldering, Rebekah Hounsell +6

In this white paper, we review five top considerations for selecting locations of the fields of the Roman High-latitude Time Domain Survey. Based on these considerations, we recomm…

astro-ph.IM2023

Roman CCS White Paper: Optimizing the HLTDS Cadence at Fixed Depth

David Rubin, Ben Rose, Rebekah Hounsell +4

The current proposal for the High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS) is two tiers (wide and deep) of multi-band imaging and prism spectroscopy with a cadence of five days (Rose et…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Roman CCS White Paper: Balanced Prism Plus Filter Cadence in the High Latitude Time Domain Survey Core Community Survey

Greg Aldering, David Rubin, Benjamin Rose +3

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's (RST) Wide Field Imager (WFI) is equipped with a slitless prism that can be used for spectroscopic discovery and follow-up of explosive tran…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

LSST Observing Strategy White Paper: LSST Observations of WFIRST Deep Fields

R. J. Foley, A. M. Koekemoer, D. N. Spergel +38

The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. With its wide-field near-infrared (NIR) camera, it will survey the sky to unprecedented de…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 56 cited

Extending Supernova Spectral Templates for Next-Generation Space Telescope Observations

J. D. R. Pierel, S. Rodney, A. Avelino +13

Empirical models of supernova (SN) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are widely used for SN survey simulations and photometric classifications. The existing library of SED model…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 76 cited

How Many Kilonovae Can Be Found in Past, Present, and Future Survey Datasets?

D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, D. Brout +83

The discovery of a kilonova (KN) associated with the Advanced LIGO (aLIGO)/Virgo event GW170817 opens up new avenues of multi-messenger astrophysics. Here, using realistic simulati…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 187 cited

Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints

R. Hounsell, D. Scolnic, R. J. Foley +14

The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the highest ranked large space-based mission of the 2010 New Worlds, New Horizons decadal survey. It is now a NASA mission in…