The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2025)
The JADES Transient Survey: Discovery and Classification of Supernovae in the JADES Deep Field
- Christa DeCoursey,
- Eiichi Egami,
- Justin D. R. Pierel,
- Fengwu Sun,
- Armin Rest,
- David A. Coulter,
- Michael Engesser,
- Matthew R. Siebert,
- Kevin N. Hainline,
- Benjamin D. Johnson,
- Andrew J. Bunker,
- Phillip A. Cargile,
- Stephane Charlot,
- Wenlei Chen,
- Mirko Curti,
- Shea DeFour-Remy,
- Daniel J. Eisenstein,
- Ori D. Fox,
- Suvi Gezari,
- Sebastian Gomez,
- Jacob Jencson,
- Bhavin A. Joshi,
- Sanvi Khairnar,
- Jianwei Lyu,
- Roberto Maiolino,
- Takashi J. Moriya,
- Robert M. Quimby,
- George H. Rieke,
- Marcia J. Rieke,
- Brant Robertson,
- Melissa Shahbandeh,
- Louis-Gregory Strolger,
- Sandro Tacchella,
- Qinan Wang,
- Christina C. Williams,
- Christopher N. A. Willmer,
- Chris Willott,
- Yossef Zenati
Affiliations
- Christa DeCoursey
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Eiichi Egami
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Justin D. R. Pierel
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Fengwu Sun
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Armin Rest
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- David A. Coulter
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Michael Engesser
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Matthew R. Siebert
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Kevin N. Hainline
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Benjamin D. Johnson
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Andrew J. Bunker
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford , Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Rd., Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
- Phillip A. Cargile
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Stephane Charlot
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- Sorbonne Université , CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 98 bis bd Arago, 75014 Paris, France
- Wenlei Chen
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- Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University , 145 Physical Sciences Bldg, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
- Mirko Curti
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- European Southern Observatory , Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Shea DeFour-Remy
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Daniel J. Eisenstein
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Ori D. Fox
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Suvi Gezari
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Sebastian Gomez
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Jacob Jencson
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- Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Bhavin A. Joshi
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- Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Sanvi Khairnar
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Jianwei Lyu
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Roberto Maiolino
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge , Madingley Rd., Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge , 19 JJ Thomson Ave., Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London , Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- Takashi J. Moriya
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- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences , 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan; Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies , SOKENDAI, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan; School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University , Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
- Robert M. Quimby
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- Department of Astronomy/Mount Laguna Observatory, San Diego State University , 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92812-1221, USA; Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo , Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
- George H. Rieke
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Marcia J. Rieke
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Brant Robertson
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California , Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 96054, USA
- Melissa Shahbandeh
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Louis-Gregory Strolger
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Sandro Tacchella
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge , Madingley Rd., Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge , 19 JJ Thomson Ave., Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Qinan Wang
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- Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Christina C. Williams
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 North Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Christopher N. A. Willmer
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Chris Willott
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- NRC Herzberg , 5071 West Saanich Rd., Victoria, BC V9E 2E7, Canada
- Yossef Zenati
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8fab
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 979,
no. 2
p. 250
Abstract
The JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) is a multicycle JWST program that has taken among the deepest near- and mid-infrared images to date (down to ∼30 AB mag) over ∼25 arcmin ^2 in the GOODS-S field in two sets of observations with 1 yr of separation. This presented the first opportunity to systematically search for transients, mostly supernovae (SNe), out to z > 2. We found 79 SNe: 38 at z < 2, 23 at 2 < z < 3, 8 at 3 < z < 4, 7 at 4 < z < 5, and 3 with undetermined redshifts, where the redshifts are predominantly based on spectroscopic or highly reliable JADES photometric redshifts of the host galaxies. At this depth, the detection rate is ∼1–2 arcmin ^–2 yr ^–1 , demonstrating the power of JWST as an SN discovery machine. We also conducted multiband follow-up NIRCam observations of a subset of the SNe to better constrain their light curves and classify their types. Here, we present the survey, sample, search parameters, spectral energy distributions, light curves, and classifications. Even at z ≥ 2, the NIRCam data quality is high enough to allow SN classification via multiepoch light-curve fitting with confidence. The multiepoch SN sample includes a Type Ia SN at z _spec = 2.90, a Type IIP SN at z _spec = 3.61, and a Type Ic-BL SN at z _spec = 2.83. We also found that two z ∼ 16 galaxy candidates from the first imaging epoch were actually transients that faded in the second epoch, illustrating the possibility that moderate/high-redshift SNe could mimic high-redshift dropout galaxies.
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