CANUCS/Technicolor Data Release 1: Imaging, Photometry, Slit Spectroscopy, and Stellar Population Parameters
Abstract
We present the first data release of the CAnadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS), a JWST Cycle 1 GTO program targeting 5 lensing clusters and flanking fields in parallel (Abell 370, MACS0416, MACS0417, MACS1149, MACS1423; survey area \tilda100 arcmin), with NIRCam imaging, NIRISS slitless spectroscopy, and NIRSpec prism multi-object spectroscopy. Fields centered on cluster cores include imaging in 8 bands from 0.9-4.4m, alongside continuous NIRISS coverage from 1.15-2m, while the NIRCam flanking fields provide 5 wide and 9 medium band filters for exceptional spectral sampling, all to \tilda29 mag. We also present JWST in Technicolor, a Cycle 2 follow-up GO program targeting 3 CANUCS clusters (Abell 370, MACS0416, MACS1149). The Technicolor program adds NIRISS slitless spectroscopy in F090W to the cluster fields while adding 8 wide, medium, and narrow band filters to the flanking fields. This provides NIRCam imaging in all wide and medium band filters over \tilda30 arcmin. This paper describes our data reduction and photometry methodology. We release NIRCam, NIRISS, and HST imaging, PSFs, PSF-matched imaging, photometric catalogs, and photometric and spectroscopic redshifts. We provide lens models and stellar population parameters in up to 19 filters for \tilda53,000 galaxies in the cluster fields, and \tilda44,000 galaxies in up to 29 filters in the flanking fields. We further present 733 NIRSpec spectra and redshift measurements up to . Comparing against our photometric redshifts, we find catastrophic outlier rates of only 4-7\% and scatter of of 0.01-0.03.
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@article{arxiv.2506.21685,
title = {CANUCS/Technicolor Data Release 1: Imaging, Photometry, Slit Spectroscopy, and Stellar Population Parameters},
author = {Ghassan T. E. Sarrouh and Yoshihisa Asada and Nicholas S. Martis and Chris J. Willott and Kartheik G. Iyer and Gaël Noirot and Adam Muzzin and Marcin Sawicki and Gabriel Brammer and Guillaume Desprez and Gregor Rihtaršič and Johannes Zabl and Roberto Abraham and Maruša Bradač and René Doyon and Jacqueline Antwi-Danso and Samantha Berek and Westley Brown and Vince Estrada-Carpenter and Jeremy Favaro and Giordano Felicioni and Ben Forrest and Gaia Gaspar and Katriona M. L. Gould and Rachel Gledhill and Anishya Harshan and Nusrath Jahan and Naadiyah Jagga and Jon Judež and Danilo Marchesini and Vladan Markov and Jasleen Matharu and Shannon MacFarland and Maya Merchant and Rosa M. Mérida and Lamiya Mowla and Katherine Myers and Kiyoaki C. Omori and Camilla Pacifici and Swara Ravindranath and Luke Robbins and Victoria Strait and Visal Sok and Vivian Yun Yan Tan and Roberta Tripodi and Gillian Wilson and Sunna Withers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.21685},
year = {2025}
}
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Submitted to ApJ Supplements; 50 pages, 30 figures; comments welcome. Data products available at: https://niriss.github.io/data.html