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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★ 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.GA2023★ 106 cited

Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)

Daniel J. Eisenstein, Chris Willott, Stacey Alberts +75

We present an overview of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), an ambitious program of infrared imaging and spectroscopy in the GOODS-S…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 490 cited

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…

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.SR2023

Quantifying the contamination from nebular emission in NIRSpec spectra of massive star forming regions

Ciaran R. Rogers, Guido De Marchi, Giovanna Giardino +3

The Near InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) includes a novel micro shutter array (MSA) to perform multi object spectroscopy. While the MSA is…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 21 cited

A recently quenched galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang

Tobias J. Looser, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +42

Local and low-redshift (<) galaxies are known to broadly follow a bimodal distribution: actively star forming galaxies with relatively stable star-formation rates, and passiv…