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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…
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…
IVOA Recommendation: HiPS - Hierarchical Progressive Survey
Pierre Fernique, Mark Allen, Thomas Boch +6
This document presents HiPS, a hierarchical scheme for the description, storage and access of sky survey data. The system is based on hierarchical tiling of sky regions at finer an…
Version 1 of the Hubble Source Catalog
Bradley C. Whitmore, Sahar S. Allam, Tamas Budavari +9
The Hubble Source Catalog is designed to help optimize science from the Hubble Space Telescope by combining the tens of thousands of visit-based source lists in the Hubble Legacy A…
MOC - HEALPix Multi-Order Coverage map Version 1.0
Pierre Fernique, Thomas Boch, Tom Donaldson +4
This document describes the Multi-Order Coverage map method (MOC) to specify arbitrary sky regions. The goal is to be able to provide a very fast comparison mechanism between cover…