TY - JOUR
T1 - The UNCOVER Survey
T2 - A First-look HST + JWST Catalog of 60,000 Galaxies near A2744 and beyond
AU - Weaver, John R.
AU - Cutler, Sam E.
AU - Pan, Richard
AU - Whitaker, Katherine E.
AU - Labbé, Ivo
AU - Price, Sedona H.
AU - Bezanson, Rachel
AU - Brammer, Gabriel
AU - Marchesini, Danilo
AU - Leja, Joel
AU - Wang, Bingjie
AU - Furtak, Lukas J.
AU - Zitrin, Adi
AU - Atek, Hakim
AU - Chemerynska, Iryna
AU - Coe, Dan
AU - Dayal, Pratika
AU - van Dokkum, Pieter
AU - Feldmann, Robert
AU - Förster Schreiber, Natascha M.
AU - Franx, Marijn
AU - Fujimoto, Seiji
AU - Fudamoto, Yoshinobu
AU - Glazebrook, Karl
AU - de Graaff, Anna
AU - Greene, Jenny E.
AU - Juneau, Stéphanie
AU - Kassin, Susan
AU - Kriek, Mariska
AU - Khullar, Gourav
AU - Maseda, Michael V.
AU - Mowla, Lamiya A.
AU - Muzzin, Adam
AU - Nanayakkara, Themiya
AU - Nelson, Erica J.
AU - Oesch, Pascal A.
AU - Pacifici, Camilla
AU - Papovich, Casey
AU - Setton, David J.
AU - Shapley, Alice E.
AU - Shipley, Heath V.
AU - Smit, Renske
AU - Stefanon, Mauro
AU - Taylor, Edward N.
AU - Weibel, Andrea
AU - Williams, Christina C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - 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 arcmin2 JWST footprint down to a 5σ 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.
AB - 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 arcmin2 JWST footprint down to a 5σ 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.
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4365/ad07e0
DO - 10.3847/1538-4365/ad07e0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85181247412
SN - 0067-0049
VL - 270
JO - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
JF - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
IS - 1
M1 - 7
ER -