We present the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) imaging products of the fifth data release (DR5) of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). The JADES survey is one of the most ambitious programs yet conducted on JWST, producing deep infrared imaging and multiobject spectroscopy on the GOODS-S and GOODS-N extragalactic deep fields in order to explore galaxies to the earliest epoch. Here we describe the NIRCam data reduction procedures that result in deep and well-characterized mosaics in up to 18 filters covering 469 arcmin2, with 250 arcmin2 having at least 8 filters of coverage. This release contains the full NIRCam imaging of JADES, over 800 JWST mission hours, as well as co-reductions of 19 other programs in these two premier deep fields. We perform detailed tests on the final data products, thereby characterizing the photometric properties, point-spread function, and astrometric alignment. We release mosaics for individual programs (or epochs, depending on scheduling) and the mosaics combining data from all programs in order to facilitate photometric variability studies and the deepest possible photometry.
@article{arxiv.2601.15954,
title = {JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: NIRCam Imaging in GOODS-S and GOODS-N},
author = {Benjamin D. Johnson and Brant E. Robertson and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Sandro Tacchella and Dávid Puskás and Qiao Duan and Zihao Wu and Kevin Hainline and Marcia Rieke and Chris Willott and Christopher N. A. Willmer and James A. A. Trussler and Stacey Alberts and Santiago Arribas and William M. Baker and Andrew J. Bunker and Alex J. Cameron and Stefano Carniani and Courtney Carreira and Phillip A. Cargile and Emma Curtis-Lake and Eiichi Egami and Ryan Hausen and Jakob M. Helton and Zhiyuan Ji and Roberto Maiolino and Pablo G. Pérez-González and Pierluigi Rinaldi and Fengwu Sun and Yang Sun and Natalia C. Villanueva and Christina C. Williams and Yongda Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15954},
year = {2026}
}
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Submitted to AAS Journals. Images and associated data will be made available at MAST as a High Level Science Product via https://doi.org/10.17909/8tdj-8n28 . Temporary access is available through https://slate.ucsc.edu/~brant/jades-dr5/