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 SchreiberMarijn 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

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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 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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7
JournalAstrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Volume270
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2024

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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