JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: Photometric Catalog
Abstract
JADES Data Release 5 (DR5) photometric catalogs and describes the methodologies used for source detection, deblending, photometry, uncertainty estimation, and catalog curation. The catalogs are constructed from 35 space-based imaging mosaics obtained with JWST/NIRCam, JWST/MIRI, HST/ACS, and HST/WFC3, combining approximately 1250 hours of JADES imaging with extensive additional public JWST and HST observations in the GOODS fields. Sources are identified using custom signal-to-noise-based detection and deblending algorithms optimized for the depth, resolution, and complex point-spread-function structure of JWST imaging. Source centroids, shapes, and photometric apertures are determined using a new fast two-dimensional Gaussian regression method applied to detection-image profiles. We provide forced circular-aperture photometry, ellipsoidal Kron photometry, and curve-of-growth measurements for every source in every band. We introduce a new pixel-level regression framework to model photometric uncertainties as a function of aperture size and local mosaic properties, accounting for correlated noise in heterogeneous JWST mosaics. Photometric redshifts are computed using template-based fitting applied to both small-aperture photometry on unconvolved images and Kron photometry on common-PSF mosaics. The JADES DR5 catalogs supersede previous JADES photometric releases, and are publicly released through the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes and an interactive web interface.
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@article{arxiv.2601.15956,
title = {JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: Photometric Catalog},
author = {Brant E. Robertson and Benjamin D. Johnson and Sandro Tacchella and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Kevin Hainline 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 Jacopo Chevallard and Chiara Circosta and Emma Curtis-Lake and A. Lola Danhaive and Qiao Duan and Eiichi Egami and Ryan Hausen and Jakob M. Helton and Zhiyuan Ji and Roberto Maiolino and Pablo G. Pérez-González and Dávid Puskás and Marcia Rieke and Pierluigi Rinaldi and Fengwu Sun and Yang Sun and Hannah Übler and James A. A. Trussler and Natalia C. Villanueva and Lily Whitler and Christina C. Williams and Christopher N. A. Willmer and Chris Willott and Zihao Wu and Yongda Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15956},
year = {2026}
}
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Submitted to AAS Journals. Temporary data access available at https://slate.ucsc.edu/~brant/jades-dr5/ . Permanent data access at https://doi.org/10.17909/8tdj-8n28