STRIDE

STRIDE is the Roman Time Domain Working Group. Co-chairs: Ashish Mahabal (Caltech) from RAPID and Tyler Pritchard (UMd). See the STRIDE Outerspace page (MyST login required).

• Join STRIDE: Sign up at https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/RSWGS (MyST login required).
• STRIDE Meetings are the first Friday of every month at 10 AM Pacific, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87956099177?pwd=iKua0M7igupwa3I6YfmfajJ6EmRE9K.1.

Other Community Engagement

• Joe Masiero posted a technical memo on arXiv, describing how possible mitigation strategies could be employed to recover moving solar system object (SSO) observations from Roman's planned pipeline image processing, making SSOs potentially detectable by RAPID.
• SAVE THE DATES! We will be holding a workshop here at Caltech on March 23-27, 2026: RAPID Response: Hot-wiring the Next Generation of Time Domain Science.
• We are also holding a Special Session at AAS 247 January 2026 in Phoenix, AZ, date and time TBD: Preparing for Time Domain Science with the Roman Space Telescope.
• We contributed to the proceedings of the Transients From Space workshop held at STScI, in Baltimore, MD, 2025 March 11-13.
  • Ashish Mahabal presented RAPID Insights: Real-Time Transient Classification for Roman.
  • A poster describing RAPID.
• RAPID organized and held a STRIDE-themed special session, Time Domain Insights from the Roman Space Telescope, at the 245th AAS in National Harbor, MD, 2025 January 15. (MyST login required to access slides.)
• We presented a proposal for magnitude-limited spectroscopic follow-up with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) of all RAPID-discovered transients and variables at the Roman/Subaru Synergistic Observations workshop held in Tokyo, Japan, 2024 December 16-18. A corresponding White Paper was submitted for consideration by the Roman/Subaru Steering Group.
• We held a hybrid breakout session on July 10, 2024 during the 2024 Roman Science Conference.
  • Slides, providing high-level background information about RAPID, that were presented to stimulate discussion are available here.
  • A recording from Zoom of the proceedings of the session can be viewed here.
• We need you! We are looking to inject other transients into existing image simulations! We are looking for data on:
  • Low-luminosity SNe II-P
  • Low-luminosity SNe Ib/IIb
  • Intermediate-luminosity red transients (ILRTs)
  • Luminous red novae (LRNe)
  • Fast, blue optical transients (FBOTs)
  • AGN flares
  • Luminous blue variables/impostors/pre-SN eruptions
  • Classical novae
  • SLSNe-II
  • "normal" SNe IIn
  • SNe Ia-CSM
  • Double-peaked SNe
  • Galactic variables and transients