Publications (15)
The James Webb Space Telescope Mission
Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather, Randy Abbott +1004
Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized…
The Brighter-Fatter Effect in the JWST MIRI Si:As IBC detectors I. Observations, impact on science, and modelling
Ioannis Argyriou, Craig Lage, George H. Rieke +10
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) uses three Si:As impurity band conduction (IBC) detector arrays. The output voltage level of each…
Absolute Calibration and Characterization of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer. II. 70 micron Imaging
Karl D. Gordon, Charles W. Engelbracht, Dario Fadda +19
The absolute calibration and characterization of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) 70 micron coarse- and fine-scale imaging modes are presented based on over 2.5…
JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: MIRI Coordinated Parallels in GOODS-S and GOODS-N
Stacey Alberts, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Andrew J. Bunker +19
Medium to ultra-deep mid-infrared imaging surveys with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)'s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) are reframing our view of the early Universe, from the…
Fading Light, Fierce Winds: JWST Snapshot of a Sub-Eddington Quasar at Cosmic Dawn
Jianwei Lyu, George H. Rieke, Meredith Stone +6
The majority of most luminous quasars during the epoch of reionization accrete near or above the Eddington limit, marking the vigorous growth of primitive supermassive black holes…
SMILES Initial Data Release: Unveiling the Obscured Universe with MIRI Multi-band Imaging
Stacey Alberts, Jianwei Lyu, Irene Shivaei +12
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revolutionizing our view of the Universe through unprecedented sensitivity and resolution in the infrared, with some of the largest gains r…
JWST MIRI flight performance: Detector Effects and Data Reduction Algorithms
Jane Morrison, Daniel Dicken, Ioannis Argyriou +21
The detectors in the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are arsenic-21 doped silicon impurity band conduction (Si:As IBC) devices and are direc…
A new census of dust and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at z=0.7-2 with JWST MIRI
Irene Shivaei, Stacey Alberts, Michael Florian +26
This paper utilizes the JWST MIRI multi-band imaging data from the SMILES survey (5-25micron), complemented with HST and NIRCam photometric and spectroscopic data from the JADES an…
Modeling JWST MIRI-MRS Observations of T Cha: Mid-IR Noble Gas Emission Tracing a Dense Disk Wind
Andrew D. Sellek, Naman S. Bajaj, Ilaria Pascucci +8
[Ne II] 12.81 emission is a well-used tracer of protoplanetary disk winds due to its blueshifted line profile. MIRI-MRS recently observed T Cha, detecting this line…
The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning
Jane Rigby, Marshall Perrin, Michael McElwain +623
This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performanc…
The quantum efficiency and diffractive image artifacts of Si:As IBC mid-IR detector arrays at 5 10 m: Implications for the JWST/MIRI detectors
Andras Gaspar, George H. Rieke, Pierre Guillard +6
Arsenic doped back illuminated blocked impurity band (BIBIB) silicon detectors have advanced near and mid-IR astronomy for over thirty years; they have high quantum efficiency (QE)…
JWST MIRI/MRS Observations of T Cha: Discovery of a Spatially Resolved Disk Wind
Naman S. Bajaj, Ilaria Pascucci, Uma Gorti +8
Understanding when and how circumstellar disks disperse is crucial to constrain planet formation and migration. Thermal winds powered by high-energy stellar photons have long been…
Spatially resolved imaging of the inner Fomalhaut disk using JWST/MIRI
Andras Gaspar, Schuyler Grace Wolff, George H. Rieke +9
Planetary debris disks around other stars are analogous to the Asteroid and Kuiper belts in the Solar System. Their structure reveals the configuration of small bodies and provides…
SMILES: Potentially Higher Ionizing Photon Production Efficiency in Overdense Regions
Yongda Zhu, Stacey Alberts, Jianwei Lyu +14
The topology of reionization and the environments where galaxies efficiently produce ionizing photons are key open questions. For the first time, we investigate the trend between i…
AGN Selection and Demographics: A New Age with JWST/MIRI
Jianwei Lyu, Stacey Alberts, George H. Rieke +19
Understanding the co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host systems requires a comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) behavior across a wide ran…