The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (Jan 2023)
The UNCOVER Survey: A First-look HST + JWST Catalog of 60,000 Galaxies near A2744 and beyond
- John R. Weaver,
- Sam E. Cutler,
- Richard Pan,
- Katherine E. Whitaker,
- Ivo Labbé,
- Sedona H. Price,
- Rachel Bezanson,
- Gabriel Brammer,
- Danilo Marchesini,
- Joel Leja,
- Bingjie Wang,
- Lukas J. Furtak,
- Adi Zitrin,
- Hakim Atek,
- Iryna Chemerynska,
- Dan Coe,
- Pratika Dayal,
- Pieter van Dokkum,
- Robert Feldmann,
- Natascha M. Förster Schreiber,
- Marijn Franx,
- Seiji Fujimoto,
- Yoshinobu Fudamoto,
- Karl Glazebrook,
- Anna de Graaff,
- Jenny E. Greene,
- Stéphanie Juneau,
- Susan Kassin,
- Mariska Kriek,
- Gourav Khullar,
- Michael V. Maseda,
- Lamiya A. Mowla,
- Adam Muzzin,
- Themiya Nanayakkara,
- Erica J. Nelson,
- Pascal A. Oesch,
- Camilla Pacifici,
- Casey Papovich,
- David J. Setton,
- Alice E. Shapley,
- Heath V. Shipley,
- Renske Smit,
- Mauro Stefanon,
- Edward N. Taylor,
- Andrea Weibel,
- Christina C. Williams
Affiliations
- John R. Weaver
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA ; [email protected]
- Sam E. Cutler
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA ; [email protected]
- Richard Pan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University , 574 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
- Katherine E. Whitaker
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA ; [email protected]; Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark
- Ivo Labbé
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology , Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
- Sedona H. Price
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Rachel Bezanson
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Gabriel Brammer
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, København N, DK-2200, Denmark
- Danilo Marchesini
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University , 574 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
- Joel Leja
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA; 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
- Bingjie Wang
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA; 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
- Lukas J. Furtak
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- Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
- Adi Zitrin
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- Physics Department, 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 , 98bis Boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
- Iryna Chemerynska
- Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, Sorbonne Université , 98bis Boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
- Dan Coe
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- Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) , Inc. for the European Space Agency (ESA), USA; Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University , 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, 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-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
- Natascha M. Förster Schreiber
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- Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik , Gießenbachstraße 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
- Marijn Franx
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- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , P.O. Box 9513, NL-2300 AA Leiden, The Netherlands
- Seiji Fujimoto
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Yoshinobu Fudamoto
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- Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University , 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan; National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , 2-21-1, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
- 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, 4 Ivy Lane, Princeton University , Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- Stéphanie Juneau
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Susan Kassin
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- Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) , 3700 San Martin Drive, 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 and Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Michael V. Maseda
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 475 N. Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706 USA
- Lamiya A. Mowla
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H4, Canada
- Adam Muzzin
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University , 4700 Keele Street, 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 and Planetary Science, University of Colorado , Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- Pascal A. Oesch
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva , Chemin Pegasi 51, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland; Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, København N, DK-2200, Denmark
- Camilla Pacifici
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- Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- 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
- David J. Setton
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Alice E. Shapley
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- Physics & Astronomy Department, University of California: Los Angeles , 430 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Heath V. Shipley
- Department of Physics, Texas State University , San Marcos, TX 78666, 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
- Edward N. Taylor
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology , Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
- Andrea Weibel
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva , Chemin Pegasi 51, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
- Christina C. Williams
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA; Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ad07e0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 270,
no. 1
p. 7
Abstract
In 2022 November, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) returned deep near-infrared images of A2744—a powerful lensing cluster capable of magnifying distant, incipient galaxies beyond it. Together with existing Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, this publicly available data set opens a fundamentally new discovery space to understand the remaining mysteries of the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. In this work, we detect and measure some 60,000 objects across the 49 arcmin ^2 JWST footprint down to a 5 σ limiting magnitude of ∼30 mag in 0.″32 apertures. Photometry is performed using circular apertures on images matched to the point-spread function (PSF) of the reddest NIRCam broad band, F444W, and cleaned of bright cluster galaxies and the related intracluster light. To give an impression of the photometric performance, we measure photometric redshifts and achieve a σ _NMAD ≈ 0.03 based on known, but relatively small, spectroscopic samples. With this paper, we publicly release our HST and JWST PSF-matched photometric catalog with optimally assigned aperture sizes for easy use, along with single aperture catalogs, photometric redshifts, rest-frame colors, and individual magnification estimates. These catalogs will set the stage for efficient and deep spectroscopic follow up of some of the first JWST-selected samples in summer of 2023.
Keywords
- Catalogs
- Abell clusters
- Photometry
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Astronomical methods
