Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Observation Calibration Plan

NASA's next flagship mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 2.4-meter observatory set to launch no later than May 2027. Roman features two instruments: the Wide Field Imager and the Coronagraph Instrument. Roman's Coronagraph is a Technology Demonstration that will push the c...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2022-07
Hauptverfasser: Zellem, Robert T, Nemati, Bijan, Gonzalez, Guillermo, Ygouf, Marie, Bailey, Vanessa P, Cady, Eric J, Colavita, M Mark, Hildebrandt, Sergi R, Maier, Erin R, Mennesson, Bertrand, Payne, Lindsey, Zimmerman, Neil, Belikov, Ruslan, De Rosa, Robert J, Debes, John, Douglas, Ewan S, Girard, Julien, Groff, Tyler, Kasdin, Jeremy, Lowrance, Patrick J, Macintosh, Bruce, Ryan, Daniel, Weisberg, Carey
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Zusammenfassung:NASA's next flagship mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 2.4-meter observatory set to launch no later than May 2027. Roman features two instruments: the Wide Field Imager and the Coronagraph Instrument. Roman's Coronagraph is a Technology Demonstration that will push the current capabilities of direct imaging to smaller contrast ratios (\(\sim\)10\(^{-9}\)) and inner-working angles (3~\(\lambda\)/D). In order to achieve this high precision, Roman Coronagraph data must be calibrated to remove as many potential sources of error as possible. Here we present a detailed overview of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Observation Calibration Plan including identifying potential sources of error and how they will be mitigated via on-sky calibrations.
ISSN:2331-8422