The JWST Early Release Observations
By K. Pontoppidan, Jaclyn Barrientes, Claire Blome, Hannah Braun, M. Brown, Margaret Carruthers, D. Coe, J. DePasquale, N. Espinoza, M. G. Marin and 27 more. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Observations (EROs) is a set of public outreach products created to mark the end of commissioning and the beginning of science operations for JWST. Colloquially known as the “Webb First Images and Spectra,” these products were intended to demonstrate to the worldwide public that JWST is ready for science, and is capable of producing spectacular results. The package was released on 2022 July 12 and included images and spectra of the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327 and distant lensed galaxies, the interacting galaxy group Stephan’s Quintet, NGC 3324 in the Carina star-forming complex, the Southern Ring planetary nebula NGC 3132, and the transiting hot Jupiter WASP-96b. This paper describes the ERO technical design, observations, and scientific processing of data underlying the colorful outreach products.
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- The James Webb Space Telescope Mission (2023, background): “During commissioning, 120 hr were devoted to Early Release Observations (ERO; Pontoppidan et al. 2022).”
- JWST Census for the Mass–Metallicity Star Formation Relations at z = 4–10 with Self-consistent Flux Calibration and Proper Metallicity Calibrators (2023, methodology): “The JWST / NIRSpec ERO observations were undertaken on UT 2022 June 30, targeting the SMACS 0723 lensing cluster fi eld ( Pontoppidan et al. 2022; Proposal ID: 2736 ) .”
- The evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 8 – 15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging (2022, methodology): “It is the power of this combined ground-based + space-based approach which we exploit again in this new study of the high-redshift galaxy LF, but now for the first time armed with ' 45 arcmin2 of deep multi-band NIRCam imaging from the JWST Early Release Observations (ERO) and Early Release Science ”
- A JWST/NIRSpec First Census of Broad-line AGNs at z = 4–7: Detection of 10 Faint AGNs with M BH ∼ 106–108 M ⊙ and Their Host Galaxy Properties (2023, methodology): “The data sets used in this study were obtained in the Early Release Observations (EROs; Pontoppidan et al. 2022) targeting the SMACS 0723 lensing cluster field (ERO-2736) and the Early Release Science (ERS) observations of GLASS (ERS-1324, PI: T. Treu; Treu et al. 2022) and the Cosmic Evolution…”