Paper 14145-34
Paper 14145-34
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: data reduction pipeline design and implementation
6 July 2026 • 16:30 - 16:50 CEST | Room B4-M3
Abstract
The Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument will demonstrate a series of technologies and techniques to enable the direct detection of reflected-light planets with space-based observatories. To characterize and validate the performance of the Coronagraph Instrument, the Community Participation Program is developing corgidrp, an open-source Python-based data reduction pipeline. The pipeline can process data from the required and best-effort observing modes and their associated calibration sequences. We present the software design and implementation of corgidrp. We describe the software architecture, data flow, processing steps, automation tools, testing framework, and development philosophy. We will also outline future development plans in preparation for on-sky data.
Presenter
Northwestern Univ. (United States)
Jason Wang is an assistant professor at Northwestern in CIERA and the Physics and Astronomy department. His research focuses on taking images of faint exoplanets by removing the glare of their host stars using techniques such as coronagraphy, spectroscopy, and interferometry so that he can trace out their orbits and measure the properties of their atmospheres. He, alongside Max Millar-Blanchaer, is the co-lead of the Data Reduction and Simulations working group in the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Community Participation Program.