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most citedThe Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope I. Overview of the instrument and its capabilities

665 citations

18 papers

astro-ph.IM2025★ 8 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): From spectrograms to spectra: the SIR spectroscopic Processing Function

Euclid Collaboration, Y. Copin, M. Fumana +348

The Euclid space mission aims to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter by mapping the large-scale structure of the Universe. A key component of Euclid's observation…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

TP-AGB stars and stellar population properties of a post-starburst galaxy at through optical and NIR spectroscopy with JWST

Davide Bevacqua, Paolo Saracco, Francesco La Barbera +11

We present a detailed optical and NIR spectral analysis of J-138717, a post-starburst galaxy at observed with JWST/NIRSpec, for which we derive a stellar mass of $3.5…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 92 cited

A warm Neptune's methane reveals core mass and vigorous atmospheric mixing

David K. Sing, Zafar Rustamkulov, Daniel P. Thorngren +18

Observations of transiting gas giant exoplanets have revealed a pervasive depletion of methane, which has only recently been identified atmospherically. The depletion is thought to…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 81 cited

JADES: The incidence rate and properties of galactic outflows in low-mass galaxies across 3 < z < 9

Stefano Carniani, Giacomo Venturi, Eleonora Parlanti +30

We investigate the incidence and properties of ionized gas outflows in a sample of 52 galaxies with stellar mass between M and M observed with ult…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 174 cited

JADES NIRSpec Initial Data Release for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Redshifts and Line Fluxes of Distant Galaxies from the Deepest JWST Cycle 1 NIRSpec Multi-Object Spectroscopy

Andrew J. Bunker, Alex J. Cameron, Emma Curtis-Lake +63

We describe the NIRSpec component of the JWST Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), and provide deep spectroscopy of 253 sources targeted with the NIRSpec micro-shutter assembly in th…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 42 cited

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of the Planetary Mass Companion TWA 27B

K. L. Luhman, P. Tremblin, S. M. Birkmann +8

We present 1-5um spectroscopy of the young planetary mass companion TWA 27B (2M1207B) performed with NIRSpec on board the James Webb Space Telescope. In these data, the fundamental…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 28 cited

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope V. Optimal algorithms for planning multi-object spectroscopic observations

N. Bonaventura, P. Jakobsen, P. Ferruit +2

We present an overview of the capabilities and key algorithms employed in the so-called eMPT software suite developed for planning scientifically optimized, multi-object spectrosco…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 396 cited

JADES NIRSpec Spectroscopy of GN-z11: Lyman- emission and possible enhanced nitrogen abundance in a luminous galaxy

Andrew J. Bunker, Aayush Saxena, Alex J. Cameron +59

We present JADES JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of GN-z11, the most luminous candidate Lyman break galaxy in the GOODS-North field with . We derive a redshift of $z…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 96 cited

Carbonaceous dust grains seen in the first billion years of cosmic time

Joris Witstok, Irene Shivaei, Renske Smit +39

Large dust reservoirs (up to ) have been detected in galaxies out to redshift , when the age of the universe was only about 600 Myr. Genera…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 183 cited

In-orbit Performance of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph NIRSpec on the James Webb Space Telescope

T. Böker, T. L. Beck, S. M. Birkmann +47

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of the four focal plane instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope. In this paper, we summarize the in-orbit performance of NIRSp…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 46 cited

Spectroscopic Time-series Performance of JWST/NIRSpec from Commissioning Observations

Néstor Espinoza, Leonardo Úbeda, Stephan M. Birkmann +22

We report on JWST commissioning observations of the transiting exoplanet HAT-P-14 b, obtained using the Bright Object Time Series (BOTS) mode of the NIRSpec instrument with the G39…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 25 cited

The phase curve and the geometric albedo of WASP-43b measured with CHEOPS, TESS and HST WFC3/UVIS

G. Scandariato, V. Singh, D. Kitzmann +79

Observations of the phase curves and secondary eclipses of extrasolar planets provide a window on the composition and thermal structure of the planetary atmospheres. For example, t…

astro-ph.IM2022

In-flight performance of the NIRSpec Micro Shutter Array

Timothy D. Rawle, Giovanna Giardino, David E. Franz +33

The NIRSpec instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) brings the first multi-object spectrograph (MOS) into space, enabled by a programmable Micro Shutter Array (MSA) of…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 440 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 86 cited

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope IV. Capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization

S. M. Birkmann, P. Ferruit, G. Giardino +31

The Near-Inrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a very versatile instrument, offering multiobject and integral field spectroscopy with varying s…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 199 cited

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope III. Integral-field spectroscopy

T. Böker, S. Arribas, N. Lützgendorf +28

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offers the first opportunity to use integral-field spectroscopy from space at near-infrared wavele…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 217 cited

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope II. Multi-object spectroscopy (MOS)

P. Ferruit, P. Jakobsen, G. Giardino +30

We provide an overview of the capabilities and performance of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) when used in its multi-object spectr…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 665 cited

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope I. Overview of the instrument and its capabilities

P. Jakobsen, P. Ferruit, C. Alves de Oliveira +68

We provide an overview of the design and capabilities of the near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope. NIRSpec is designed to be capable of carry…