We summarize the design and performance of the James Webb Space Telescope that is to be launched to an L2 orbit in 2011, and how it is designed, in particular, to study the epochs of First Light, Reionization and Galaxy Assembly.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0506253,
title = {How JWST can measure First Light, Reionization and Galaxy Assembly},
author = {R. A. Windhorst and S. H. Cohen and R. A. Jansen and C. Conselice and H. Yan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0506253},
year = {2009}
}
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12 pages, Latex2e requires 'elsart' (included), 7 Postscript figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the UC Irvine Workshop on "First Light and Reionization: Theoretical Study and Experimental Detection of the First Luminous Sources", eds. A. Cooray & E. Barton (New Astron. Rev., 2005). A full-resolution PDF version is available at www.asu.edu/clas/hst/www/jwst/ . Revision includes minor corrections and legible labels in Fig. 6