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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.GA2025★ 9 cited

A spectroscopic map of the Galactic centre -- Observations and resolved stars

A. Feldmeier-Krause, N. Neumayer, A. Seth +10

The Galactic Centre region contains a dense accumulation of stars, which can be separated into two components: A flattened and dense nuclear star cluster (NSC), and a surrounding,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

First results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D: The Fast Outflow in a Red Quasar at z=0.44

Weizhe Liu, Sylvain Veilleux, Swetha Sankar +26

Quasar feedback may play a key role in the evolution of massive galaxies. The dust-reddened quasar, F2M110648.35480712 at is one of the few cases at its redshift th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 63 cited

First results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D: Turbulent times in the life of a extremely red quasar revealed by NIRSpec IFU

Dominika Wylezalek, Andrey Vayner, David S. N. Rupke +20

Extremely red quasars, with bolometric luminosities exceeding erg s, are a fascinating high-redshift population that is absent in the local universe. They are the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

A Deep View into the Nucleus of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy with MUSE. III. Discrete multi-component population-dynamical models based on the Jeans equations

Nikolay Kacharov, Mayte Alfaro-Cuello, Nadine Neumayer +12

We present comprehensive multi-component dynamical models of M54 (NGC6715), the nuclear star cluster of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sgr), which is undergoing a tidal disruption i…

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★ 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…

astro-ph.GA2018

A MODEST review

Anna Lisa Varri, Maxwell Xu Cai, Francisca Concha-Ramírez +7

We present an account of the state of the art in the fields explored by the research community invested in 'Modeling and Observing DEnse STellar systems'. For this purpose, we take…

astro-ph.IM2018

Preparing the NIRSpec/JWST science data calibration: from ground testing to sky

Catarina Alves de Oliveira, Stephan M. Birkmann, Torsten Boeker +7

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of four instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NIRSpec is developed by ESA with AIRBUS Defence & Space as prime c…