The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey
Abstract
We present the Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey, a deep slitless spectroscopic and imaging Cycle 1 JWST treasury survey designed to constrain feedback mechanisms in low-mass galaxies across cosmic time. NGDEEP targets the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) with NIRISS slitless spectroscopy (f~1.2e-18 erg/s/cm^2, 5sigma) to measure metallicities and star-formation rates (SFRs) for low-mass galaxies through the peak of the cosmic SFR density (0.5<z<4). In parallel, NGDEEP targets the HUDF-Par2 parallel field with NIRCam (m=30.6-30.9, 5sigma) to discover galaxies to z>12, constraining the slope of the faint-end of the rest-ultraviolet luminosity function. NGDEEP overlaps with the deepest HST ACS optical imaging in the sky: F435W in the HUDF (m=29.6), and F814W in HUDF-Par2 (m=30), making this a premier HST+JWST Deep Field. As a treasury survey, NGDEEP data is public immediately, and we will rapidly release data products and catalogs in the spirit of previous deep field initiatives. In this paper we present the NGDEEP survey design, summarize the science goals, and detail plans for the public release of NGDEEP reduced data products.
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@article{arxiv.2302.05466,
title = {The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey},
author = {Micaela B. Bagley and Nor Pirzkal and Steven L. Finkelstein and Casey Papovich and Danielle A. Berg and Jennifer M. Lotz and Gene C. K. Leung and Henry C. Ferguson and Anton M. Koekemoer and Mark Dickinson and Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe and Dale D. Kocevski and Rachel S. Somerville and L. Y. Aaron Yung and Bren E. Backhaus and Caitlin M. Casey and Marco Castellano and Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz and Katherine Chworowsky and Isabella G. Cox and Romeel Davé and Kelcey Davis and Vicente Estrada-Carpenter and Adriano Fontana and Seiji Fujimoto and Jonathan P. Gardner and Mauro Giavalisco and Andrea Grazian and Norman A. Grogin and Nimish P. Hathi and Taylor A. Hutchison and Anne E. Jaskot and Intae Jung and Lisa J. Kewley and Allison Kirkpatrick and Rebecca L. Larson and Jasleen Matharu and Priyamvada Natarajan and Laura Pentericci and Pablo G. Pérez-González and Swara Ravindranath and Barry Rothberg and Russell Ryan and Lu Shen and Raymond C. Simons and Gregory F. Snyder and Jonathan R. Trump and Stephen M. Wilkins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05466},
year = {2023}
}
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21 pages, 9 figures, submitted to AAS Journals