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Monday, June 10

5:00-5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 12

Monday, June 10

Roman Space Telescope Observing Program Implementation (iPoster)
Roman will be used to survey the sky over its 5-year primary mission. The SOC at STScI will manage the implementation of all approved Roman observing programs. Building on the processes, procedures, and software used in the management of HST and JWST observing programs, the Roman observing program implementation process has been designed to support Roman’s unique survey capabilities.

Monday, June 10

JWST Science Highlights
Well into its second year of science operations, JWST keeps fulfilling its promise of revolutionizing all fields of astronomy. This Exhibitor Hall contribution will review some JWST scientific highlights — from the solar system to the most distant galaxies — while emphasizing recent data processing updates that have had a positive impact on the data. 

 The Roman Space Telescope Science Operations Center (iPoster)
With its enormous survey speeds and data rates, Roman presents new challenges in data handling, processing, and archiving. STScI is the Roman Science Operations Center (SOC), and is responsible for the planning and scheduling of all observations, as well as for WFI data processing and the generation of data products for WFI imaging. The SOC will also host the Roman Archive, and will make available a Roman Science Platform, which is being designed to enable community access to and efficient analysis of Roman data products in the cloud. All data products, including image-level and catalog-level products, will be made available to the community with no exclusive access period.

Wednesday, June 12

The Roman Space Telescope Science Operations Center

With its enormous survey speeds and data rates, Roman presents new challenges in data handling, processing, and archiving. STScI is the Roman Science Operations Center (SOC), and is responsible for the planning and scheduling of all observations, as well as for WFI data processing and the generation of data products for WFI imaging. The SOC will also host the Roman Archive, and will make available a Roman Science Platform, which is being designed to enable community access to and efficient analysis of Roman data products in the cloud. All data products, including image-level and catalog-level products, will be made available to the community with no exclusive access period.

STScI Town Hall
This event will serve as the centerpiece for our AAS 244 presence. We will report on the status of our existing and upcoming missions and describe new opportunities designed to advance astrophysics through the 2020s. In particular, we will discuss future plans for HST and JWST, the Roman science platform, and prospects for transient science with all three observatories. Presenters will include STScI science leads and community representatives. Time will be available for discussion to receive community input regarding new capabilities and to answer questions about our activities in the coming year.

Wednesday, June 12

Overview of JWST NIRISS Science (iPoster)

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) onboard JWST offers four independent observing modes to enable scientific observations from our own solar system to the edge of the universe. We present the current quality of the NIRISS science data products, planned calibration improvements expected to be available over the next six months, and pointers to Jupyter notebook tutorials to illustrate how to reduce and analyze NIRISS data for scientific analysis.

Wednesday, June 12

Performance Status and General Updates for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (iPoster)

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) onboard HST continues to deliver high quality science from both its imaging and spectroscopic modes across a wavelength range spanning from the far UV into the near IR. This poster presents nominal instrument health and status results from the recent cycle 30 calibration programs. It discusses updated STIS values and files for the HST exposure time calculator, the time dependent sensitivity in the near UV, and the flux calibration in certain modes. Lastly, it highlights the recent Hubble Advanced Spectral Products (HASP) program which produces coadded and abutted spectra from STIS and HST's Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS) data for the community.

Wednesday, June 12

Twenty-Two Years of the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys: Calibration Update (iPoster)
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has been a workhorse Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imager for over 22 years, subsequent to its Servicing Mission 3B installation in 2002. The ACS Solar Blind Channel (SBC) continues to offer unique access to high-resolution, high-sensitivity imaging in the far-UV with its Multi-Anode Microchannel Array (MAMA) detector. The once defunct ACS Wide Field Channel (WFC) has now been operating thrice as long (>15yrs) since its Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) repair than it had originally operated prior to its 2007 electronics failure. Despite the accumulating radiation damage to the WFC CCDs during their long stay in low Earth orbit, ACS remains heavily exploited by the HST community as both a prime and a parallel detector, and now by the JWST community for its matched spatial resolution at optical wavelengths. Ongoing detector-calibration efforts by the STScI ACS Team consistently deliver the highest level of performance to the ACS users.

We present results from the latest studies of detector performance for both WFC and SBC, including long-term monitoring of WFC and SBC dark current, WFC readout noise, and WFC CCD pixel stability. We also advertise updated ACS documentation and software tools for the user community.

Wednesday, June 12

Updated Status and Performance of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (iPoster)

Exploring the early universe with future Roman Ultra Deep Field observations (iPoster)

Among the new areas of observational discovery space that could be opened up by Roman is the potential for carrying out Roman Ultra Deep Field observations, reaching UDF-quality depths up to about 30th magnitude, over degree-scale areas. This would greatly increase the discovery space for samples of high-redshift galaxies and AGN in the epoch of reionization, vastly increasing the sample sizes of these rare sources compared to previous HST results, and providing excellent complementarity with the latest JWST surveys. Moreover, targeting Euclid and Rubin deep fields with Roman Ultra Deep Field observations would enable additional synergies in time-domain science and multiband imaging, crucial in expanding the discovery space of rare populations of sources in the early universe, and understanding their formation and evolution.