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most citedThe Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

440 citations · 625 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2025

Evolution of JWST Contingency Payload Operations for Mitigating NIRSpec Micro-shutter Array Electrical Shorts

Katie Bechtold, Torsten Böker, David E. Franz +6

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of four science instruments on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which began routine operations in July 2022. As JWST's p…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

The NIRSpec Micro-Shutter Array: Operability and Operations After Two Years of JWST Science

Katie Bechtold, Torsten Böker, David E. Franz +4

The Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope affords the astronomical community an unprecedented space-based Multi-Object Spectroscopy (MOS) capabilit…

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.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

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…

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…