The JWST Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) and Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS)

By R. Doyon, J. Hutchings, M. Beaulieu, L. Albert, D. Lafrèniere, C. Willott, D. Touahri, N. Rowlands, M. Maszkiewicz, A. Fullerton and 11 more. Other Conferences, 2012

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Richard S. Ellis
2. M. Ouchi
3. Jon Fortney
4. Brant Robertson
5. P. V. van Dokkum
6. T. Treu
7. L. Hernquist
8. P. Oesch

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. M. Malkan
2. N. Nettelmann
3. Jon Fortney
4. M. Line
5. M. Oguri
6. Brant Robertson
7. Eliza Miller-Ricci Kempton
8. T. Robinson

In Instrumentation

1. Brant Robertson
2. Richard S. Ellis
3. T. Treu
4. P. V. van Dokkum
5. M. Ouchi
6. M. Franx
7. Jon Fortney
8. M. Oguri

Citations in the corpus

• CHARACTERIZING TRANSITING EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES WITH JWST (2015, methodology): “Additional information on expected instrument performance and spectroscopic observations of transiting planets have been published for all instruments: NIRISS (Doyon et al. 2012), NIRSpec (Ferruit et al. 2014; Batalha et al. 2015), NIRCam (Greene et al. 2007), and MIRI (Kendrew et al. 2015).”
• A Comprehensive Study of Galaxies at z ∼ 9–16 Found in the Early JWST Data: Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History at the Pre-reionization Epoch (2022, background): “The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS; Doyon et al. 2012) supplements spectroscopic redshift determinations in the wavelength range of ∼1–2 μm.”
• The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. I. Survey Design and Release Plans (2022, methodology): “With the above in mind, the GLASS-JWST-ERS program (JWST-ERS-1324: PI: Treu) will obtain the deepest ERS observations with NIRISS (Doyon et al. 2012), NIRSpec (Jakobsen et al. 2022), and NIRCam (Rieke et al. 2005).”
• Galaxy Formation and Reionization: Key Unknowns and Expected Breakthroughs by the James Webb Space Telescope (2021, background): “The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRIS; Doyon et al. 2012) provides wide-field slitless spectroscopy (WFSS; λ = 0.8− 2.2µm with R ∼ 150 over 133”× 133”), single object slitless spectroscopy (λ = 0.8−2.2µm with R ∼ 700) in six filters, aperture masking interferometry, and parallel…”
• Pale Orange Dots: The Impact of Organic Haze on the Habitability and Detectability of Earthlike Exoplanets (2016, methodology): “The JWST model we use can simulate the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI, Wright et al. 2004), the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec, Ferruit et al. 2012) and the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS, Doyon et al. 2012).”
• A FRAMEWORK FOR CHARACTERIZING THE ATMOSPHERES OF LOW-MASS LOW-DENSITY TRANSITING PLANETS (2013, background): “However, the slitless NIRISS spectrograph (Doyon et al. 2012) will sample the JWST point-spread function much more finely and will likely provide low systematic errors at these wavelengths even without a scanning mode.”
• The Detectability and Characterization of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST (2019, methodology): “…using the grism time-series mode, NIRSpec (Bagnasco et al. 2007; Ferruit et al. 2014), the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS; Doyon et al. 2012) using the singleobject slitless spectroscopy (SOSS) mode, and the MIRI (Bouchet et al. 2015) low-resolution spectrometer (LRS;…”