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

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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…