The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (Jan 2023)
PEARLS: Near-infrared Photometry in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field
- Christopher N. A. Willmer,
- Chun Ly,
- Satoshi Kikuta,
- S. A. Kattner,
- Rolf A. Jansen,
- Seth H. Cohen,
- Rogier A. Windhorst,
- Ian Smail,
- Scott Tompkins,
- John F. Beacom,
- Cheng Cheng,
- Christopher J. Conselice,
- Brenda L. Frye,
- Anton M. Koekemoer,
- Nimish Hathi,
- Minhee Hyun,
- Myungshin Im,
- S. P. Willner,
- X. Zhao,
- Walter A. Brisken,
- F. Civano,
- William Cotton,
- Günther Hasinger,
- W. Peter Maksym,
- Marcia J. Rieke,
- Norman A. Grogin
Affiliations
- Christopher N. A. Willmer
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Chun Ly
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Satoshi Kikuta
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- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
- S. A. Kattner
- MMT Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Rolf A. Jansen
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- School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University , 550 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- Seth H. Cohen
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- School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University , 550 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- Rogier A. Windhorst
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- School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University , 550 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- Ian Smail
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- Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Department of Physics, Durham University , South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
- Scott Tompkins
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- School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University , 550 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- John F. Beacom
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- Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Physics, Ohio State University , 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University , 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Cheng Cheng
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences, South America Center for Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China
- Christopher J. Conselice
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- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester , Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Brenda L. Frye
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Anton M. Koekemoer
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Nimish Hathi
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Minhee Hyun
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- Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute , 776 Daedeok-daero, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34055, Republic of Korea
- Myungshin Im
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- SNU, Astronomy Research Center, Astronomy program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University , 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- S. P. Willner
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- Center for Astrophysics , Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- X. Zhao
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- Center for Astrophysics , Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Walter A. Brisken
- Long Baseline Observatory, 1003 Lopezville Road, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
- F. Civano
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- William Cotton
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Günther Hasinger
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- ESA, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Camino bajo del Castillo, s/n, Urbanización Villafranca del Castillo, Villanueva de la Cañada, E-28692 Madrid, Spain
- W. Peter Maksym
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- Center for Astrophysics , Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Marcia J. Rieke
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Norman A. Grogin
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acf57d
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 269,
no. 1
p. 21
Abstract
We present near-infrared (NIR) ground-based Y , J , H , and K imaging obtained in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (NEP TDF) using the MMT-Magellan Infrared Imager and Spectrometer on the MMT. These new observations cover a field of approximately 230 arcmin ^2 in Y , H , and K, and 313 arcmin ^2 in J . Using Monte Carlo simulations, we estimate a 1 σ depth relative to the background sky of ( Y, J, H, K ) = (23.80, 23.53, 23.13, 23.28) in AB magnitudes for point sources at a 95% completeness level. These observations are part of the ground-based effort to characterize this region of the sky, supplementing space-based data obtained with Chandra, NuSTAR, XMM, AstroSat, Hubble Space Telescope, and JWST. This paper describes the observations and reduction of the NIR imaging and combines these NIR data with archival imaging in the visible, obtained with the Subaru Hyper-Suprime-Cam, to produce a merged catalog of 57,501 sources. The new observations reported here, plus the corresponding multiwavelength catalog, will provide a baseline for time-domain studies of bright sources in the NEP TDF.
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