Partners
The Roman mission involves work by various institutions. The Roman Space Telescope Project Office is at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), which also oversees the work on the Wide Field Instrument (WFI), the Spacecraft Bus, and System Integration. The NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) oversees the work on the coronagraphic instrument. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the Science Operations Center (SOC) for Roman, and shares science support responsibilities with IPAC, foreign partners, and GSFC.
The SOC is responsible for the mission’s observation planning and scheduling system, the WFI data processing system (with different levels of processing depending on the mode), and archiving all mission observations (WFI and Coronagraph). The SOC is the community interface for WFI imaging (excluding the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey), including user support, documentation, community engagement, and public outreach. STScI performed pre-formulation, formulation, and design activities for Roman starting in 2014, and continues its role in science operations system engineering, design, science research support, and scientific community engagement and public outreach.
IPAC is home to the Roman Science Support Center (SSC). IPAC is responsible for Roman’s Coronagraph Instrument operations, high-level data processing of grism and prism data from the WFI, high-level data processing of the WFI Galactic Bulge Time Doman Survey data, and community engagement for Roman exoplanet science and wide field spectroscopy. The SSC also implements the proposal solicitation and grant management for the General Investigator program, which includes funding for analysis of Roman WFI data, publicly accessible ancillary data with direct relevance to Roman science, and theoretical investigations, as well as new General Astrophysics Surveys with the WFI. The SSC also curates telescope instrument and simulation efforts, and engages the greater scientific community in preparing for science with Roman.
Roman Prefooter
The NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is managed by NASA/GSFC with participation of STScI, Caltech/IPAC, and NASA/JPL.
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