Written by The Spectroscopic Probes of Quantitative Reionization (SPQR) Team
At the 246th AAS Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, we invite interested attendants to come to the second Roman Spectroscopy Data Challenge, which will take place on Tuesday, June 10, 9–11 AM Alaska Time at the Egan Convention Center, Room 2.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will look at the universe in a new way. One of its powerful tools is something called slitless spectroscopy. Instead of collecting light through a narrow slit, Roman will take spectra of everything in its field of view at once. This is great for covering large areas of the sky and studying many objects at the same time—but it also means the data will look and behave differently from what most astronomers are used to…