Radosław Poleski

Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw

Session X: Poster session

Thursday 14th September 2023 12:00 – 13:00

abstract:
NASA is building (and plans to launch in late 2026) the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with the same mirror diameter as the Hubble Space Telescope but Roman’s near-infrared camera field of view of 0.28 deg^2 will be 100 times larger than Hubble’s. This very large field of view will allow Roman to undertake cosmology (weak lensing and SNe) and exoplanets (via microlensing and transits) surveys. In addition, high contrast coronagraph will allow a part-per-billion suppression of stellar light in order to detect and study spectroscopically an exoplanet orbiting that star. I will present goals of the Roman mission focusing on exoplanet and Solar System studies.