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20152023
most citedThe James Webb Space Telescope Mission

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18 papers

astro-ph.GA2023★ 29 cited

The JADES Origins Field: A New JWST Deep Field in the JADES Second NIRCam Data Release

Daniel J. Eisenstein, Benjamin D. Johnson, Brant Robertson +58

We summarize the properties and initial data release of the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the longest single pointing yet imaged with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This field…

astro-ph.GA2023

ReveaLLAGN 0: First Look at JWST MIRI data of Sombrero and NGC 1052

K. Goold, A. Seth, M. Molina +28

We present the first results from the Revealing Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (ReveaLLAGN) survey, a JWST survey of seven nearby LLAGN. We focus on two observations with th…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

First results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D: Benchmark Comparison of Optical and Mid-IR Tracers of a Dusty, Ionized Red Quasar Wind at z=0.435

D. S. N. Rupke, D. Wylezalek, N. L. Zakamska +27

The [OIII] 5007 A emission line is the most common tracer of warm, ionized outflows in active galactic nuclei across cosmic time. JWST newly allows us to use mid-infrared spectral…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 42 cited

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of the Planetary Mass Companion TWA 27B

K. L. Luhman, P. Tremblin, S. M. Birkmann +8

We present 1-5um spectroscopy of the young planetary mass companion TWA 27B (2M1207B) performed with NIRSpec on board the James Webb Space Telescope. In these data, the fundamental…

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.GA2023★ 48 cited

First results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D: The Warm Ionized Gas Outflow in z ~ 1.6 Quasar XID 2028 and its Impact on the Host Galaxy

Sylvain Veilleux, Weizhe Liu, Andrey Vayner +26

Quasar feedback may regulate the growth of supermassive black holes, quench coeval star formation, and impact galaxy morphology and the circumgalactic medium. However, direct evide…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

First results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D: Ionization cone, clumpy star formation and shocks in a extremely red quasar host

Andrey Vayner, Nadia L. Zakamska, Yuzo Ishikawa +25

Massive galaxies formed most actively at redshifts during the period known as `cosmic noon.' Here we present an emission-line study of an extremely red quasar SDSSJ165202.6…

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.GA2022★ 274 cited

Identification and properties of intense star-forming galaxies at redshifts z>10

B. E. Robertson, S. Tacchella, B. D. Johnson +53

Surveys with James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered candidate galaxies in the first 400 Myr of cosmic time. Preliminary indications have suggested these candidate galaxi…

astro-ph.IM2022

The In-Flight Noise Performance of the JWST/NIRSpec Detector System

Stephan M. Birkmann, Giovanna Giardino, Marco Sirianni +11

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one the four focal plane instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which was launched on December 25, 2021. We present the in…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Astrometric and Wavelength Calibration of the NIRSpec Instrument during Commissioning using a model-based approach

Nora Lützgendorf, Giovanna Giardino, Catarina Alves de Oliveira +11

The NIRSpec instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a highly versatile near-infrared spectrograph that can be operated in various observing modes, slit apertures, a…

astro-ph.IM2022

In-flight performance and calibration of the Grating Wheel Assembly sensors (NIRSpec/JWST)

Catarina Alves de Oliveira, Nora Luetzgendorf, Peter Zeidler +9

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on board of the James Webb Space Telescope will be the first multi-object spectrograph in space offering ~250,000 configurable micro-shutte…

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.GA2022★ 8 cited

Gas inflows in the polar ring of NGC 4111: the birth of an AGN

Gabriel R. Hauschild-Roier, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Richard M. McDermid +14

We have used Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images, SAURON Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) and adaptative optics assisted Gemini NIFS near-infrared K-band IFS to map the stellar an…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 19 cited

An Upper Limit on the Mass of a Central Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud from the Stellar Rotation Field

H. Boyce, N. Lützgendorf, R. P. van der Marel +4

We constrain the possible presence of a central black hole (BH) in the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This requires spectroscopic measurements over an area of order a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 94 cited

KMOS view of the Galactic Centre I. Young stars are centrally concentrated

A. Feldmeier-Krause, N. Neumayer, R. Schödel +7

The Galactic centre hosts a crowded, dense nuclear star cluster with a half-light radius of 4 pc. Most of the stars in the Galactic centre are cool late-type stars, but there are a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 246 cited

MOCCA Code for Star Cluster Simulations - IV. A new Scenario for Intermediate Mass Black Hole Formation in Globular Clusters

M. Giersz, N. Leigh, A. Hypki +2

We discuss a new scenario for the formation of intermediate mass black holes in dense star clusters. In this scenario, intermediate mass black holes are formed as a result of dynam…