Publications (9)
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…
Correlations between O VI Absorbers and Galaxies at Low Redshift
Rajib Ganguly, Renyue Cen, Taotao Fang +1
We investigate the relationship between galaxies and metal-line absorption systems in a large-scale cosmological simulation with galaxy formation. Our detailed treatment of metal e…
The Abundance of Deuterium in the Warm Neutral Medium of the Lower Galactic Halo
Blair Savage, Nicolas Lehner, Andrew Fox +2
We use high resolution spectra obtained with FUSE and STIS to obtain interstellar column densities of H I, D I, O I, S II, Fe II and P II toward the QSO HE 0226-4110 ( l = 253.4 de…
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…
Elemental depletions in the Magellanic Clouds and the evolution of depletions with metallicity
Kirill Tchernyshyov, Margaret Meixner, Jonathan Seale +5
We present a study of the composition of gas and dust in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, together -- the MCs) as measured by UV absorption spectroscopy. We have…
Molecular and Atomic Excitation Stratification in the Outflow of the Planetary Nebula M27
Stephan R. McCandliss, Kevin France, Roxana E. Lupu +5
High resolution spectroscopy with FUSE and STIS of atomic and molecular velocity stratification in the nebular outflow of M27 challenge models for the abundance kinematics in plane…