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20062024
most citedClouds, filaments and protostars: the Herschel Hi-GAL Milky Way

806 citations · 3.7k across the 49 of their papers we have counts for

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49 papers

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Hydroxyl Lines and Moonlight: a High Spectral Resolution Investigation of NIR skylines from Maunakea to guide NIR spectroscopic surveys

Frederick Dauphin, Andreea Petric, Étienne Artigau +8

Subtracting the changing sky contribution from the near-infrared (NIR) spectra of faint astronomical objects is challenging and crucial to a wide range of science cases such as est…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 34 cited

JWST MIRI Flight Performance: Imaging

Dan Dicken, Macarena García Marín, Irene Shivaei +37

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides the observatory with a huge advance in mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy covering the w…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 6 cited

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…

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★ 122 cited

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission: Optical Telescope Element Design, Development, and Performance

Michael W. McElwain, Lee D. Feinberg, Marshall D. Perrin +126

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared space telescope that has recently started its science program which will enable breakthroughs in astrophysics and planeta…

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…