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19982024
most citedThe James Webb Space Telescope

2k citations · 3.4k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.EP2024

The New Horizons Extended Mission Target: Arrokoth Search and Discovery

Marc W. Buie, John R. Spencer, Simon B. Porter +37

Following the Pluto fly-by of the New Horizons spacecraft, the mission provided a unique opportunity to explore the Kuiper Belt in-situ. The possibility existed to fly-by a Kuiper…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 32 cited

JWST-TST Proper Motions: I. High-Precision NIRISS Calibration and Large Magellanic Cloud Kinematics

M. Libralato, A. Bellini, R. P. van der Marel +27

We develop and disseminate effective point-spread functions and geometric-distortion solutions for high-precision astrometry and photometry with the JWST NIRISS instrument. We corr…

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…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 102 cited

The Geology and Geophysics of Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth

J. R. Spencer, S. A. Stern, J. M. Moore +75

The Cold Classical Kuiper Belt, a class of small bodies in undisturbed orbits beyond Neptune, are primitive objects preserving information about Solar System formation. The New Hor…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 635 cited

The Frontier Fields: Survey Design

J. M. Lotz, A. Koekemoer, D. Coe +39

The Frontier Fields are a director's discretionary time campaign with HST and the Spitzer Space Telescope to see deeper into the universe than ever before. The Frontier Fields comb…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 17 cited

James Webb Space Telescope Optical Simulation Testbed I: Overview and First Results

Marshall D. Perrin, Rémi Soummer, Élodie Choquet +13

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Optical Simulation Testbed (JOST) is a tabletop workbench to study aspects of wavefront sensing and control for a segmented space telescope, i…