Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)
Abstract
We present an overview of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), an ambitious program of infrared imaging and spectroscopy in the GOODS-S and GOODS-N deep fields, designed to study galaxy evolution from high redshift to cosmic noon. JADES uses about 770 hours of Cycle 1 guaranteed time largely from the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument teams. In GOODS-S, in and around the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and Chandra Deep Field South, JADES produces a deep imaging region of ~42 arcmin^2 with over 100 hrs of exposure time spread over 9 NIRCam filters, including two medium-band filters. This is extended at medium depth in GOODS-S and GOODS-N with NIRCam imaging of ~167 arcmin^2, averaging 25 hrs of exposure over 8-10 filters. In both fields, we conduct extensive NIRSpec multi-object spectroscopy, including 2 deep pointings of 55 hrs exposure time, 14 medium pointings of ~12 hrs, and 15 shallower pointings of ~4 hrs, targeting over 5000 HST and JWST-detected faint sources with 5 low, medium, and high-resolution dispersers covering 0.6-5.3 um. Finally, JADES extends redward via coordinated parallels with the JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), featuring ~10 arcmin^2 with 43 hours of exposure at 7.7 um and thrice that area with 1.4-6.8 hours of exposure at 12.8 um and 15 um. For nearly 30 years, the GOODS-S and GOODS-N fields have been developed as the premier deep fields on the sky; JADES is now providing a compelling start on the JWST legacy in these fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.02465,
title = {Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)},
author = {Daniel J. Eisenstein and Chris Willott and Stacey Alberts and Santiago Arribas and Nina Bonaventura and Andrew J. Bunker and Alex J. Cameron and Stefano Carniani and Stephane Charlot and Emma Curtis-Lake and Francesco D'Eugenio and Pierre Ferruit and Giovanna Giardino and Kevin Hainline and Ryan Hausen and Peter Jakobsen and Benjamin D. Johnson and Roberto Maiolino and Bernard J. Rauscher and Marcia Rieke and George Rieke and Hans-Walter Rix and Brant Robertson and Daniel P. Stark and Sandro Tacchella and Christina C. Williams and Christopher N. A. Willmer and William M. Baker and Stefi Baum and Rachana Bhatawdekar and Kristan Boyett and Zuyi Chen and Jacopo Chevallard and Chiara Circosta and Mirko Curti and A. Lola Danhaive and Christa DeCoursey and Ryan Endsley and Anna de Graaff and Alan Dressler and Eiichi Egami and Jakob M. Helton and Raphael E. Hviding and Zhiyuan Ji and Gareth C. Jones and Nimisha Kumari and Nora Lützgendorf and Isaac Laseter and Tobias J. Looser and Jianwei Lyu and Michael V. Maseda and Erica Nelson and Eleonora Parlanti and Michele Perna and Dávid Puskás and Tim Rawle and Bruno Rodríguez Del Pino and Wiphu Rujopakarn and Lester Sandles and Aayush Saxena and Jan Scholtz and Katherine Sharpe and Irene Shivaei and Maddie S. Silcock and Charlotte Simmonds and Maya Skarbinski and Renske Smit and Meredith Stone and Katherine A. Suess and Fengwu Sun and Mengtao Tang and Michael W. Topping and Hannah Übler and Natalia C. Villanueva and Imaan E. B. Wallace and Lily Whitler and Joris Witstok and Charity Woodrum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02465},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
35 pages, accepted to ApJ Supplement. The JADES Collaboration web site is at https://jades-survey.github.io, and data releases are available at https://archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/jades with a viewer at http://jades.idies.jhu.edu