The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (Jan 2023)
The UNCOVER Survey: A First-look HST+JWST Catalog of Galaxy Redshifts and Stellar Population Properties Spanning 0.2 ≲ z ≲ 15
- Bingjie Wang,
- Joel Leja,
- Ivo Labbé,
- Rachel Bezanson,
- Katherine E. Whitaker,
- Gabriel Brammer,
- Lukas J. Furtak,
- John R. Weaver,
- Sedona H. Price,
- Adi Zitrin,
- Hakim Atek,
- Dan Coe,
- Sam E. Cutler,
- Pratika Dayal,
- Pieter van Dokkum,
- Robert Feldmann,
- Danilo Marchesini,
- Marijn Franx,
- Natascha Förster Schreiber,
- Seiji Fujimoto,
- Marla Geha,
- Karl Glazebrook,
- Anna de Graaff,
- Jenny E. Greene,
- Stéphanie Juneau,
- Susan Kassin,
- Mariska Kriek,
- Gourav Khullar,
- Michael Maseda,
- Lamiya A. Mowla,
- Adam Muzzin,
- Themiya Nanayakkara,
- Erica J. Nelson,
- Pascal A. Oesch,
- Camilla Pacifici,
- Richard Pan,
- Casey Papovich,
- David J. Setton,
- Alice E. Shapley,
- Renske Smit,
- Mauro Stefanon,
- Katherine A. Suess,
- Edward N. Taylor,
- Christina C. Williams
Affiliations
- Bingjie Wang
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA ; [email protected]; Institute for Computational & Data Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Joel Leja
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA ; [email protected]; Institute for Computational & Data Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Ivo Labbé
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology , Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
- Rachel Bezanson
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Katherine E. Whitaker
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA; Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, København N DK-2200, Denmark
- Gabriel Brammer
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, København N DK-2200, Denmark
- Lukas J. Furtak
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- Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
- John R. Weaver
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Sedona H. Price
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Adi Zitrin
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- Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
- Hakim Atek
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- Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, Sorbonne Université , 98 bis Boulevard Arago, F-75014, Paris, France
- Dan Coe
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. for the European Space Agency , USA; Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Sam E. Cutler
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Pratika Dayal
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- Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen , P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
- Pieter van Dokkum
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- Department of Astronomy, Yale University , New Haven, CT 06511, USA
- Robert Feldmann
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- Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich , Winterhurerstrasse 190, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland
- Danilo Marchesini
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Tufts University , Medford, MA 02155, USA
- Marijn Franx
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- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , P.O.Box 9513, NL-2300 AA Leiden, The Netherlands
- Natascha Förster Schreiber
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- Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik , Gießenbachstraße 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
- Seiji Fujimoto
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Marla Geha
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- Department of Astronomy, Yale University , New Haven, CT 06511, USA
- Karl Glazebrook
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology , Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
- Anna de Graaff
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Jenny E. Greene
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University , Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- Stéphanie Juneau
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- NSFs National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Susan Kassin
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Mariska Kriek
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- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , P.O.Box 9513, NL-2300 AA Leiden, The Netherlands
- Gourav Khullar
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Michael Maseda
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Lamiya A. Mowla
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics , Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada
- Adam Muzzin
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, York University , Toronto, Ontario ON MJ3 1P3, Canada
- Themiya Nanayakkara
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology , Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
- Erica J. Nelson
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- Department for Astrophysical & Planetary Science, University of Colorado , Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- Pascal A. Oesch
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, København N DK-2200, Denmark; Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva , Chemin Pegasi 51, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
- Camilla Pacifici
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Richard Pan
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Tufts University , Medford, MA 02155, USA
- Casey Papovich
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- Department of Physics & 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
- David J. Setton
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Alice E. Shapley
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California: Los Angeles , Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Renske Smit
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University , 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
- Mauro Stefanon
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- Departament d’Astronomia i Astrofisica, Universitat de Valencia , C. Dr. Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain; Unidad Asociada CSIC “Grupo de Astrofisica Extragalactica y Cosmologi” (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria—Universitat de Valencia) , Spain
- Katherine A. Suess
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- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Edward N. Taylor
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology , Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
- Christina C. Williams
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , Tucson, AZ 85719, USA; Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ad0846
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 270,
no. 1
p. 12
Abstract
The recent UNCOVER survey with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exploits the nearby cluster A2744 to create the deepest view of our Universe to date by leveraging strong gravitational lensing. In this work, we perform photometric fitting of more than 50,000 robustly detected sources out to z ∼ 15. We show the redshift evolution of stellar ages, star formation rates, and rest-frame colors across the full range of 0.2 ≲ z ≲ 15. The galaxy properties are inferred using the Prospector Bayesian inference framework using informative Prospector - β priors on the masses and star formation histories to produce joint redshift and stellar populations posteriors. Additionally, lensing magnification is performed on the fly to ensure consistency with the scale-dependent priors. We show that this approach produces excellent photometric redshifts with σ _NMAD ∼ 0.03, of a similar quality to the established photometric redshift code EAzY . In line with the open-source scientific objective of this Treasury survey, we publicly release the stellar population catalog with this paper, derived from our photometric catalog adapting aperture sizes based on source profiles. This release (the catalog and all related documentation are accessible via the UNCOVER survey web page: https://jwst-uncover.github.io/DR2.html#SPSCatalogs with a copy deposited to Zenodo at doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8401181 ) includes posterior moments, maximum likelihood spectra, star formation histories, and full posterior distributions, offering a rich data set to explore the processes governing galaxy formation and evolution over a parameter space now accessible by JWST.
Keywords
- Abell clusters
- Catalogs
- Galaxy evolution
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Spectral energy distribution
