14 papers
Enhancing the performance and capabilities of the MIRI instrument on JWST
S. Kendrew, M. Engesser, K. Rowlands +23
MIRI, the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope, is the only instrument sensitive to wavelengths longward of 5 um on the observatory. In this regime, MIRI bring…
JWST Spectra Indicate a Large Mass of Postshock Dust Formed by SN 2010jl
Nathan Smith, Melissa Shahbandeh, Ori D. Fox +22
The paper reports JWST mid‑infrared spectra of the Type IIn supernova SN 2010jl 13 years after explosion, revealing a large (~0.2 M☉) mass of warm dust formed in the post‑shock reg…
The JADES Transient Survey II: Volumetric Supernova Rates out to z~5
Christa DeCoursey, Christian Vassallo, Louis-Gregory Strolger +27
The paper uses JWST/NIRCam observations from the JADES Transient Survey to measure the first volumetric rates of core‑collapse and Type Ia supernovae at redshifts 2–5, employing ph…
Expanding the High-z Supernova Frontier: "Wide-Area" JWST Discoveries from the First Two Years of COSMOS-Web
Ori D. Fox, Armin Rest, Justin D. R. Pierel +48
Transient astronomy in the early Universe (z > 2) remains largely unexplored, lying beyond the rest-frame optical spectroscopic reach of most current observatories. Yet this regime…
A spectroscopically confirmed, strongly lensed, metal-poor Type II supernova at z = 5.13
David A. Coulter, Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel +88
Observing supernovae (SNe) in the early Universe (z > 3) provides a window into how both galaxies and individual stars have evolved over cosmic time, yet a detailed study of high-r…
The First Photometric Evidence of a Transient/Variable Source at z>5 with JWST
Christa DeCoursey, Eiichi Egami, Fengwu Sun +27
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered 79 transients out to 4.8 through the JADES Transient Survey (JTS), but the JTS did not find any 5 transients. Here,…