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The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of four instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NIRSpec is developed by ESA with AIRBUS Defence & Space as prime contractor. The calibration of its various observing modes is…

The 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope(INT) is currently being used to carry out a major multi-colour, multi-epoch, CCD based wide field survey over an area of 100 square degrees. The survey parameters have been chosen to maximise scientific…

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated time-domain multi-band ($u$, $g$, $r$, $i$, and $z$) photometric survey facility under construction. In this paper, we present a preliminary study that assesses the quality of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Yu Liu , Xiao-zhi Lin , Yong-quan Xue , Huynh Anh N. Le

The proposed infrared space interferometry mission Darwin has two main aims: (i) to detect and characterize exo-planets similar to the Earth, and (ii) to carry out astrophysical imaging in the wavelength range 6 - 20 micron at a sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. A. Rottgering , L. d'Arcio , C. Eiroa , I. Labbe , G. Rudnick

The coronagraphic instrument (CGI) on the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will demonstrate technologies and methods for high-contrast direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanet systems in reflected light, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Ewan S. Douglas , Ashley K. Carlton , Kerri L. Cahoy , N. Jeremy Kasdin , Margaret Turnbull , Bruce Macintosh

We describe the spectrophotometric calibration of the Mid-Infrared Instrument's (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This calibration is complicated by a time-dependent evolution in the…

HST is commonly thought of as an optical-IR imaging or UV-spectroscopy observatory. However, the advent of WFC3-IR made it possible to do slitless infrared spectroscopic surveys over an area significant for galaxy evolution studies (~0.15…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-10 Benjamin J. Weiner

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is optimized for observations in the near and mid infrared and will provide essential observations for targets that cannot be conducted from the ground or other missions during its lifetime. The state…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-11 Stefanie N. Milam , John A. Stansberry , George Sonneborn , Cristina Thomas

AIMS: We aim to evaluate the near-infrared colors of brown dwarfs as observed with four major infrared imaging space observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Euclid mission, and the WFIRST…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 B. W. Holwerda , J. S. Bridge , R. Ryan , M. A. Kenworthy , N. Pirzkal , M. Andersen , S. Wilkins , R. Smit , S. R. Bernard , T. Meshkat , R. Steele , R. C. Bouwens

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a wide-field imaging system of unprecedented etendue. The initial goal of the project is to carry out a ten year imaging survey in six broad passbands (ugrizy) that cover $350 nm < \lambda < 1.1…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-14 Christopher W. Stubbs , Katrin Heitmann

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will monitor $\sim 2$ deg$^2$ toward the Galactic bulge in a wide ($\sim 1-2~\mu$m) W149 filter at 15-minute cadence with exposure times of $\sim$50s for 6 seasons of 72 days each, for a…

The mid-infrared (IR) spectrum of galaxies has a long history as a valuable proxy for the dust-obscured star formation rate (SFR) in massive galaxies. Now, with JWST, we can explore the mid-IR's full potential as a SFR tracer over four…

This STScI Working Group (WG) was charged with soliciting community feedback and evaluating the strategic planning for exoplanet science with JWST and HST given the high quality of exoplanet observations, the significantly lengthened…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Seth Redfield , Natasha Batalha , Björn Benneke , Beth Biller , Nestor Espinoza , Kevin France , Quinn Konopacky , Laura Kreidberg , Emily Rauscher , David Sing

WFIRST will be capable of providing Hubble-quality imaging performance over several thousand square degrees of the sky. The wide-area, high spatial resolution survey data from WFIRST will be unsurpassed for many decades into the future.…

This paper defines the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Early Data Release (EDR). UKIDSS is a set of five large near-infra-red surveys defined by Lawrence et al. (2006), being undertaken with the UK Infra-red Telescope (UKIRT) Wide…

The Wide-Field X-ray Telescope (WFXT) is a proposed NASA mission dedicated to performing surveys of the sky in the soft X-ray band (0.3-6 keV). The key characteristics of this missions are a constant point spread function with Half Energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-04 Sergio Campana

Assess the joint capabilities of emerging telescopes for near-Earth objects (NEOs) survey and characterization, and what they will add to the current capabilities or replace. NASA telescopes in prime mission, in development, or under study,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 S. N. Milam , H. B. Hammel , J. Bauer , M. Brozovic , T. Grav , B. J. Holler , C. Lisse , A. Mainzer , V. Reddy , M. E. Schwamb , T. Spahr , C. A. Thomas , D. Woods

We present a new analysis of the potential power of deep, near-infrared, imaging surveys with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to improve our knowledge of galaxy evolution. In this work we properly simulate what can be achieved with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 T. W. Kemp , J. S. Dunlop , R. J. McLure , C. Schreiber , A. C. Carnall , F. Cullen