The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2024)
The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey
- Micaela B. Bagley,
- Nor Pirzkal,
- Steven L. Finkelstein,
- Casey Papovich,
- Danielle A. Berg,
- Jennifer M. Lotz,
- Gene C. K. Leung,
- Henry C. Ferguson,
- Anton M. Koekemoer,
- Mark Dickinson,
- Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe,
- Dale D. Kocevski,
- Rachel S. Somerville,
- L. Y. Aaron Yung,
- Bren E. Backhaus,
- Caitlin M. Casey,
- Marco Castellano,
- Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz,
- Katherine Chworowsky,
- Isabella G. Cox,
- Romeel Davé,
- Kelcey Davis,
- Vicente Estrada-Carpenter,
- Adriano Fontana,
- Seiji Fujimoto,
- Jonathan P. Gardner,
- Mauro Giavalisco,
- Andrea Grazian,
- Norman A. Grogin,
- Nimish P. Hathi,
- Taylor A. Hutchison,
- Anne E. Jaskot,
- Intae Jung,
- Lisa J. Kewley,
- Allison Kirkpatrick,
- Rebecca L. Larson,
- Jasleen Matharu,
- Priyamvada Natarajan,
- Laura Pentericci,
- Pablo G. Pérez-González,
- Swara Ravindranath,
- Barry Rothberg,
- Russell Ryan,
- Lu Shen,
- Raymond C. Simons,
- Gregory F. Snyder,
- Jonathan R. Trump,
- Stephen M. Wilkins
Affiliations
- Micaela B. Bagley
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA ; [email protected]
- Nor Pirzkal
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- ESA/AURA , USA; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Steven L. Finkelstein
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA ; [email protected]
- Casey Papovich
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242 USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242 USA
- Danielle A. Berg
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA ; [email protected]
- Jennifer M. Lotz
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- Gemini Observatory/NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Gene C. K. Leung
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA ; [email protected]
- Henry C. Ferguson
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Anton M. Koekemoer
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Mark Dickinson
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe
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- Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology , 84 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
- Dale D. Kocevski
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colby College , Waterville, ME 04901, USA
- Rachel S. Somerville
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- Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute , 162 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA
- L. Y. Aaron Yung
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Bren E. Backhaus
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- Department of Physics, 196 Auditorium Road, Unit 3046, University of Connecticut , Storrs, CT 06269, USA
- Caitlin M. Casey
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA ; [email protected]; Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Rådmandsgade 62, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Marco Castellano
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , via di Frascati 33, 00078 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
- Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA ; [email protected]
- Katherine Chworowsky
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA ; [email protected]
- Isabella G. Cox
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- Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology , 84 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
- Romeel Davé
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- Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh , Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK; University of the Western Cape , Bellville, Cape Town 7535, South Africa
- Kelcey Davis
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- Department of Physics, 196 Auditorium Road, Unit 3046, University of Connecticut , Storrs, CT 06269, USA
- Vicente Estrada-Carpenter
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- Department of Astronomy & Physics, Saint Mary’s University , 923 Robie Street, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada
- Adriano Fontana
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , via di Frascati 33, 00078 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
- Seiji Fujimoto
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA ; [email protected]
- Jonathan P. Gardner
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Mauro Giavalisco
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Andrea Grazian
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova , Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy
- Norman A. Grogin
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Nimish P. Hathi
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Taylor A. Hutchison
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Anne E. Jaskot
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- Department of Astronomy, Williams College , Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
- Intae Jung
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Lisa J. Kewley
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Allison Kirkpatrick
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas , Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
- Rebecca L. Larson
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA ; [email protected]
- Jasleen Matharu
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- Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Rådmandsgade 62, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Priyamvada Natarajan
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- Department of Astronomy, Yale University , 52 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Physics, Yale University , P.O. Box 208121, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University , 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Laura Pentericci
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , via di Frascati 33, 00078 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
- Pablo G. Pérez-González
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- Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) , CSIC-INTA, Ctra. de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, E-28850, Madrid, Spain
- Swara Ravindranath
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Barry Rothberg
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University , 4400 University Drive, MSN 3F3, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA; U.S. Naval Observatory , 3450 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20392, USA
- Russell Ryan
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Lu Shen
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242 USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242 USA
- Raymond C. Simons
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- Department of Physics, 196 Auditorium Road, Unit 3046, University of Connecticut , Storrs, CT 06269, USA
- Gregory F. Snyder
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Jonathan R. Trump
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- Department of Physics, 196 Auditorium Road, Unit 3046, University of Connecticut , Storrs, CT 06269, USA
- Stephen M. Wilkins
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- Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex , Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK; Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy, University of Malta , Msida MSD 2080, Malta
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2f31
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 965,
no. 1
p. L6
Abstract
We present the Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey, a deep slitless spectroscopic and imaging Cycle 1 JWST treasury survey designed to constrain feedback mechanisms in low-mass galaxies across cosmic time. NGDEEP targets the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) with NIRISS slitless spectroscopy ( ${f}_{\mathrm{lim},\mathrm{line},5\sigma }\approx 1.2\,\times \,$ 10 ^−18 erg s ^−1 cm ^−2 ) to measure metallicities and star formation rates (SFRs) for low-mass galaxies through the peak of the cosmic SFR density (0.5 12, constraining the slope of the faint end of the rest-ultraviolet luminosity function. NGDEEP overlaps with the deepest HST Advanced Camera for Surveys optical imaging in the sky, F435W in the HUDF ( ${m}_{\mathrm{lim},{\rm{F}}435{\rm{W}}}=29.6$ ) and F814W in HUDF-Par2 ( ${m}_{\mathrm{lim},{\rm{F}}814{\rm{W}}}=30$ ), making this a premier HST+JWST deep field. As a treasury survey, NGDEEP data are public immediately, and we will rapidly release data products and catalogs in the spirit of previous deep-field initiatives. In this paper we present the NGDEEP survey design, summarize the science goals, and detail plans for the public release of NGDEEP reduced data products.
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