21 July 2023
The primary goal of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is to maximize the scientific return from wide field near-infrared surveys. To this end, the Roman Space Telescope team is requesting self-nominations, due on August 14, 2023, for membership on the committees that will undertake the work of defining the observational strategies for Roman’s Core Community Surveys.
Roman’s Core Community Surveys will be defined by the astronomical community and will include a High Latitude Wide Area survey, a High Latitude Time Domain survey, and a Galactic Bulge Time Domain survey. The work of crafting an observational strategy for each survey that maximizes their overall science return, while meeting Roman Mission objectives in cosmology and exoplanet demographics, will be undertaken by the Core Community Survey definition committees (hereafter referred to as the “community survey committees”). These committees, one for each Core Community Survey, will each be composed of ~ 8 to 15 members of the as-tronomical community who represent both the breadth of science the community wants to see enabled with each Core Community Survey, and the diversity of the astronomers who will ultimately use Roman’s datasets. The community survey committees are expected to be active for approximately 2.5 to 3 years, with the bulk of the effort occurring in the first ~18 months.
This call for self-nominations is the first step in forming Roman’s community survey committees. The full committee membership will be drawn from various sources, including but not limited to self-nominations.
More information on the Roman Core Community Survey can be found at the link here: Core Community Survey