The JWST UNCOVER Treasury Survey: Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam Observations before the Epoch of Reionization

Rachel Bezanson; Ivo Labbe; Katherine E. Whitaker; Joel Leja; Sedona H. Price; Marijn Franx; Gabriel Brammer; Danilo Marchesini; Adi Zitrin; Bingjie Wang; John R. Weaver; Lukas J. Furtak; Hakim Atek; Dan Coe; Sam E. Cutler; Pratika Dayal; Pieter van Dokkum; Robert Feldmann; Natascha M. Förster Schreiber; Seiji Fujimoto; Marla Geha; Karl Glazebrook; Anna de Graaff; Jenny E. Greene; Stephanie 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; Edward N. Taylor; Christina C. Williams

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The JWST UNCOVER Treasury Survey: Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam Observations before the Epoch of Reionization

Rachel Bezanson, Ivo Labbe, Katherine E. Whitaker, Joel Leja, Sedona H. Price, Marijn Franx, Gabriel Brammer, Danilo Marchesini, Adi Zitrin, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Lukas J. Furtak, Hakim Atek, Dan Coe, Sam E. Cutler, Pratika Dayal, Pieter van Dokkum, Robert Feldmann, Natascha M. Förster Schreiber, Seiji FujimotoMarla Geha, Karl Glazebrook, Anna de Graaff, Jenny E. Greene, Stephanie 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, Edward N. Taylor, Christina C. Williams

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In this paper we describe the survey design for the Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam Observations before the Epoch of Reionization (UNCOVER) Cycle 1 JWST Treasury program, which executed its early imaging component in 2022 November. The UNCOVER survey includes ultradeep (∼29-30AB) imaging of ∼45 arcmin² on and around the well-studied A2744 galaxy cluster at z = 0.308 and will follow up ∼500 galaxies with extremely deep low-resolution spectroscopy with the NIRSpec/PRISM during the summer of 2023, with repeat visits in summer 2024. We describe the science goals, survey design, target selection, and planned data releases. We also present and characterize the depths of the first NIRCam imaging mosaic, highlighting previously unparalleled resolved and ultradeep 2-4 μm imaging of known objects in the field. The UNCOVER primary NIRCam mosaic spans 28.8 arcmin² in seven filters (F115W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F356W, F410M, and F444W) and 16.8 arcmin² in our NIRISS parallel (F115W, F150W, F200W, F356W, and F444W). To maximize early community use of the Treasury data set, we publicly release the full reduced mosaics of public JWST imaging including 45 arcmin² NIRCam and 17 arcmin² NIRISS mosaics on and around the A2744 cluster, including the Hubble Frontier Field primary and parallel footprints.

Original language	English
Article number	92
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	974
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad66cf
State	Published - 1 Oct 2024

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Bezanson, R., Labbe, I., Whitaker, K. E., Leja, J., Price, S. H., Franx, M., Brammer, G., Marchesini, D., Zitrin, A., Wang, B., Weaver, J. R., Furtak, L. J., Atek, H., Coe, D., Cutler, S. E., Dayal, P., van Dokkum, P., Feldmann, R., Förster Schreiber, N. M., ... Williams, C. C. (2024). The JWST UNCOVER Treasury Survey: Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam Observations before the Epoch of Reionization. Astrophysical Journal, 974(1), Article 92. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad66cf

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