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A Year of Wavefront Sensing with JWST in Flight: Cycle 1 Telescope Monitoring and Maintenance Summary
Charles-Philippe Lajoie, Matthew Lallo, Marcio Meléndez +7
We summarize JWST's measured telescope performance across science Cycle 1. The stability of segments alignments is typically better than 10 nanometers RMS between measurements ever…
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…
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…
In-orbit Commissioning of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph on the James Webb Space Telescope
Torsten Böker, Yasin Abul-Huda, Martin Altenburg +41
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of the four focal plane instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope which was launched on Dec. 25, 2021. We present an overview of…
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…
Increasing Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Committees and Related Activities at STScI
Gisella De Rosa, Cristina Oliveira, Camilla Pacifici +27
We present a new initiative by the Women in Astronomy Forum at Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) to increase gender diversity and inclusion in STScI's scientific committees…