JADES Data Release 3 -- NIRSpec/MSA spectroscopy for 4,000 galaxies in the GOODS fields
Abstract
We present the third data release of JADES, the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, providing both imaging and spectroscopy in the two GOODS fields. Spectroscopy consists of medium-depth and deep NIRSpec/MSA spectra of 4,000 targets, covering the spectral range 0.6-5.3 m and observed with both the low-dispersion prism (R=30-300) and all three medium-resolution gratings (R=500-1,500). We describe the observations, data reduction, sample selection, and target allocation. We measured 2,375 redshifts (2,053 from multiple emission lines); our targets span the range from z=0.5 up to z=13, including 404 at z>5. The data release includes 2-d and 1-d fully reduced spectra, with slit-loss corrections and background subtraction optimized for point sources. We also provide redshifts and S/N>5 emission-line flux catalogs for the prism and grating spectra, and concise guidelines on how to use these data products. Alongside spectroscopy, we are also publishing fully calibrated NIRCam imaging, which enables studying the JADES sample with the combined power of imaging and spectroscopy. Together, these data provide the largest statistical sample to date to characterize the properties of galaxy populations in the first billion years after the Big Bang.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.06531,
title = {JADES Data Release 3 -- NIRSpec/MSA spectroscopy for 4,000 galaxies in the GOODS fields},
author = {Francesco D'Eugenio and Alex J. Cameron and Jan Scholtz and Stefano Carniani and Chris J. Willott and Emma Curtis-Lake and Andrew J. Bunker and Eleonora Parlanti and Roberto Maiolino and Christopher N. A. Willmer and Peter Jakobsen and Brant E. Robertson and Benjamin D. Johnson and Sandro Tacchella and Phillip A. Cargile and Tim Rawle and Santiago Arribas and Jacopo Chevallard and Mirko Curti and Eiichi Egami and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Nimisha Kumari and Tobias J. Looser and Marcia J. Rieke and Bruno Rodríguez Del Pino and Aayush Saxena and Hannah Übler and Giacomo Venturi and Joris Witstok and William M. Baker and Rachana Bhatawdekar and Nina Bonaventura and Kristan Boyett and Stéphane Charlot and A. Lola Danhaive and Kevin N. Hainline and Ryan Hausen and Jakob M. Helton and Xihan Ji and Zhiyuan Ji and Gareth C. Jones and Ignas Joudžbalis and Michael V. Maseda and Pablo G. Pérez-González and Michele Perna and Dávid Puskás and Irene Shivaei and Maddie S. Silcock and Charlotte Simmonds and Renske Smit and Fengwu Sun and Natalia C. Villanueva and Christina C. Williams and Yongda Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.06531},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
41 pages, 26 figures, 10 tables. Submitted to ApJS