[astro-ph.IM]. In preparation for the operational phase of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA has created the Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP) to prepare for and execute Coronagraph Instrument technology demonstration observations.
The CPP is composed of 7 small, US-based teams, selected competitively via the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Research and Support Participation Opportunity, members of the Roman Project Team, and international partner teams from ESA, JAXA, CNES, and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.
The primary goals of the CPP are to prepare simulation tools, target databases, and data reduction software for the execution of the Coronagraph Instrument observation phase. Here, we present the current status of the CPP and its working groups, along with plans for future CPP activities up through Roman’s launch.
We also discuss plans to potentially enable future commissioning of currently-unsupported modes.
Dmitry Savransky, Vanessa P. Bailey, Schuyler G. Wolff, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Jason Wang, Lisa Altinier, Ramya Anche. Pierre Baudoz, Beth Biller, Sarah Blunt, Wolfgang Brandner, Marah Brinjikji, Oscar Carrión-González, Amanda Chavez, Elodie Choquet, David Doelman, Julien H. Girard, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum, Samantha N. Hasler. Justin Hom, James G. Ingalls, Stephen R. Kane, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Oliver Krause, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Alexis Lau, Zhexing Li, John Livingston, Patrick J. Lowrance, Kevin Ludwick, Bruce Macintosh, Eric Mamajek, Mark Marley, Johan Mazoyer, Bertrand Mennesson, Toshiyuki Mizuki, Sarah E. Moran, Naoshi Murakami, Jun Nishikawa, Malachi Noel, Laurent Pueyo, Sergi Hildebrandt Rafels, Jason Rhodes, Tyler Robinson, Robert J. De Rosa, Matthias Samland, Nicholas Schragal, Jürgen Schreiber, Jennifer Sobeck, Karl Stapelfeldt, Motohide Tamura, Taichi Uyajma, Arthur Vigan, Michele Woodland, Marie Ygouf, Kenta Yoneta, Robert T. Zellem, Neil T. Zimmerman
Comments: Conference proceedings from Space telescopes and instrumentation 2024: optical, infrared, and millimeter wave
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.18659 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:2609.18659v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.18659
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Journal reference: D. Savransky et al. “The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope coronagraph community participation program”, Proc. SPIE 13092, 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020514
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From: Dmitry Savransky
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18659
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