JWST Early Release Science Program TEMPLATES: Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and their Extended Star formation
Abstract
This paper gives an overview of TEMPLATES, a JWST Early Release Science program that targeted four extremely bright, gravitationally lensed galaxies: two extremely dusty, two with low attenuation, as templates for galaxy evolution studies with JWST. TEMPLATES obtains a common set of spectral diagnostics for these 1.3 < z < 4.2 galaxies, in particular H alpha, Paschen alpha, and the rest-frame optical and near-infrared continua. In addition, two of the four targets have JWST coverage of [O III] 5007 Angstrom and H beta; the other two targets have have JWST coverage of PAH 3.3 micron and complementary ALMA data covering the [C II] 158 micron emission line. The science goals of TEMPLATES are to demonstrate attenuation-robust diagnostics of star formation, map the distribution of star formation, compare the young and old stellar populations, and measure the physical conditions of star formation and their spatial variation across the galaxies. In addition, TEMPLATES has technical goals to establish best practices for the Integral Field Units (IFU) within the NIRSpec and MIRI instruments, both in terms of observing strategy and in terms of data reduction. The paper describes TEMPLATES's observing program, scientific and technical goals, data reduction methods, and deliverables, including high-level data products and data reduction cookbooks.
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@article{arxiv.2312.10465,
title = {JWST Early Release Science Program TEMPLATES: Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and their Extended Star formation},
author = {Jane R. Rigby and Joaquin D. Vieira and Kedar A. Phadke and Taylor A. Hutchison and Brian Welch and Jared Cathey and Justin S. Spilker and Anthony H. Gonzalez and Prasanna Adhikari and M. Aravena and Matthew B. Bayliss and Jack E. Birkin and Emmy Bursk and Scott C. Chapman and Håkon Dahle and Lauren A. Elicker and Travis C. Fischer and Michael K. Florian and Michael D. Gladders and Christopher C. Hayward and Rose Hewald and Lily A. Kettler and Gourav Khullar and Seonwoo Kim and David R. Law and Guillaume Mahler and Sangeeta Malhotra and Eric J. Murphy and Desika Narayanan and Grace M. Olivier and James E. Rhoads and Keren Sharon and Manuel Solimano and Athish Thiruvengadam and David Vizgan and Nikolas Younker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10465},
year = {2023}
}
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28 pages, including 8 figures and 3 tables. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal's Focus Issue on the TEMPLATES JWST Early Release Science Program, https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/apj-231204-01-templates