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"But it turns out Roman's astrometric capability is really good at detecting neutron stars and black holes, so we can add a whole new kind of science to Roman's surveys."

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Because neutron stars are relatively heavy, they create a stronger astrometric signal than smaller objects.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Although the telescope's survey was originally designed mainly to discover exoplanets through photometric microlensing, its advanced astrometric precision may open the door to entirely new kinds of discoveries.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

“There have been detections of black hole candidates before, but they didn’t have these astrometric measurements,” says David Bennett at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, a co-author with Sahu and others on the discovery paper.

From Scientific American • Feb. 3, 2022

The pipeline searches for new data in the ESO Data archive and, if available, automatically downloads and processes them by performing the following main steps: pre-reduction, astrometric and photometric calibration and mosaic production.

From Nature • Oct. 15, 2017