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The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) on board the Euclid satellite provides multiband photometry and R>=450 slitless grism spectroscopy in the 950-2020nm wavelength range. In this reference article we illuminate the…

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Kova{č}ić , S. Kruk , A. M. C. Le Brun , T. I. Liaudat , A. Montoro , A. Mora , C. Murray , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , M. Radovich , E. Sarpa , E. Tommasi , A. Viitanen , J. Lesgourgues , M. E. Levi , J. Martín-Fleitas

Two NIRCam channels are Better than One: How JWST Can Do More Science with NIRCam's Short-Wavelength Dispersed Hartmann Sensor

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offers unprecedented sensitivity, stability, and wavelength coverage for transiting exoplanet studies, opening up new avenues for measuring atmospheric abundances, structure, and temperature profiles.…

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Exoplanet Spectroscopy with JWST NIRISS: Diagnostics and Case Studies

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is ushering in a new era in remote sensing of exoplanetary atmospheres. Atmospheric retrievals of exoplanets can be highly sensitive to high-precision JWST data. It is, therefore, imperative to…

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In-flight performance and calibration of the Grating Wheel Assembly sensors (NIRSpec/JWST)

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on board of the James Webb Space Telescope will be the first multi-object spectrograph in space offering ~250,000 configurable micro-shutters, apart from being equipped with an integral field unit…

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Transit spectroscopy with JWST: Systematics, starspots and stitching

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is predicted to make great advances in the field of exoplanet atmospheres. Its 25 m2 mirror means that it can reach unprecedented levels of precision in observations of transit spectra, and can thus…

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The role of cloud particle properties on WASP-39b transmission spectrum based on JWST/NIRSpec observations

Aerosols are capable of having a huge influence on reflected, emitted and transmitted planetary spectra. The Near InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec) using the PRISM mode on board of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is providing valuable…

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The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- II. Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy

We present the wide field slitless spectroscopy mode of the NIRISS instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. This mode employs two orthogonal low-resolution (resolving power $\approx 150$) grisms in combination with a set of six…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Chris J. Willott , René Doyon , Loic Albert , Gabriel B. Brammer , William V. Dixon , Koraljka Muzic , Swara Ravindranath , Aleks Scholz , Roberto Abraham , Étienne Artigau , Maruša Bradač , Paul Goudfrooij , John B. Hutchings , Kartheik G. Iyer , Ray Jayawardhana , Stephanie LaMassa , Nicholas Martis , Michael R. Meyer , Takahiro Morishita , Lamiya Mowla , Adam Muzzin , Gaël Noirot , Camilla Pacifici , Neil Rowlands , Ghassan Sarrouh , Marcin Sawicki , Joanna M. Taylor , Kevin Volk , Johannes Zabl

Quantifying Spectroscopic Flux Variations Between JWST NIRISS and NIRSpec: Slit Losses in Emission Line Measurements of z$\sim$1-3 Galaxies

We analyze JWST NIRISS and NIRSpec spectroscopic observations in the Abell 2744 galaxy cluster field. From approximately 120 candidates, we identify 12 objects with at least a prominent emission lines among \Oii, \Hb, \Oiiia, \Oiiib, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-03 Nicolò Dalmasso , Peter J. Watson , Tommaso Treu , Michele Trenti , Benedetta Vulcani , Themiya Nanayakkara , Maruša Bradač , Tucker Jones , Kristan Boyett , Xin Wang , Sara Mascia , Laura Pentericci

JWST MIRI Flight Performance: Imaging

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides the observatory with a huge advance in mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy covering the wavelength range of 5 to 28 microns. This paper describes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Dan Dicken , Macarena García Marín , Irene Shivaei , Pierre Guillard , Mattia Libralato , Alistair Glasse , Karl D. Gordon , Christophe Cossou , Patrick Kavanagh , Tea Temim , Nicolas Flagey , Pamela Klaassen , George H. Rieke , Gillian Wright , Stacey Alberts , Ruyman Azzollini , Javier Álvarez-Márquez , Patrice Bouchet , Stacey Bright , Misty Cracraft , Alain Coulais , Ors Hunor Detre , Mike Engesser , Ori D. Fox , Andras Gaspar , René Gastaud , Adrian M. Glauser , Dean C. Hines , Sarah Kendrew , Alvaro Labiano , Pierre-Oliver Lagage , David Lee , David R. Law , Jane E. Morrison , Alberto Noriega-Crespo , Olivia Jones , Polychronis Patapis , Silvia Scheithauer , Greg C. Sloan , Laszlo Tamaz

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- III. Single Object Slitless Spectroscopy

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph instrument (NIRISS) is the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) contribution to the suite of four science instruments of JWST. As one of the three NIRISS observing modes, the Single Object Slitless…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Loic Albert , David Lafreniere , Rene Doyon , Etienne Artigau , Kevin Volk , Paul Goudfrooij , Andre R. Martel , Michael Radica , Jason Rowe , Nestor Espinoza , Arpita Roy , Joseph C. Filippazzo , Antoine Darveau-Bernier , Geert Jan Talens , Anand Sivaramakrishnan , Chris J. Willott , Alexander W. Fullerton , Stephanie LaMassa , John B. Hutchings , Neil Rowlands , M. Begona Vila , Julia Zhou , David Aldridge , Michael Maszkiewicz , Mathilde Beaulieu , Neil J. Cook , Caroline Piaulet , Pierre-Alexis Roy , Pierrot Lamontagne , Kim Morel , William Frost , Salma Salhi , Louis-Philippe Coulombe , Bjorn Benneke , Ryan J. MacDonald , Doug Johnstone , Jake D. Turner , Marylou Fournier-Tondreau , Romain Allart , Lisa Kaltenegger

Abundant Serendipitous Emission Line Sources with JWST/NIRSpec

The James Webb Space Telescope will provide observational capabilities that far exceed those of current ground- or space-based instrumentation. In particular, the NIRSpec instrument will take highly sensitive spectroscopic data for hundreds…

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NIRCam Performance on JWST In Flight

The Near Infrared Camera for the James Webb Space Telescope is delivering the imagery that astronomers have hoped for ever since JWST was proposed back in the 1990s. In the Commissioning Period that extended from right after launch to early…

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The James Webb Space Telescope Absolute Flux Calibration. V. Near-Infrared Camera Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy

We present the absolute flux and wavelength calibration of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) mode. Each of NIRCam's two modules (A and B) provides independent long…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Nor Pirzkal , Martha Boyer , Russel E. Ryan

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The Near-infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope is uniquely suited to studying galaxies in the distant Universe with its combination of multi-object capabilities and sensitivity over a large range in wavelength…

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Spectroscopic Time-series Performance of JWST/NIRSpec from Commissioning Observations

We report on JWST commissioning observations of the transiting exoplanet HAT-P-14 b, obtained using the Bright Object Time Series (BOTS) mode of the NIRSpec instrument with the G395H/F290LP grating/filter combination ($3-5\mu$m). While the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Néstor Espinoza , Leonardo Úbeda , Stephan M. Birkmann , Pierre Ferruit , Jeff A. Valenti , David K. Sing , Zafar Rustamkulov , Michael Regan , Sarah Kendrew , Elena Sabbi , Everett Schlawin , Thomas Beatty , Loïc Albert , Thomas P. Greene , Nikolay Nikolov , Diane Karakla , Charles Keyes , Nimisha Kumari , Catarina Alves de Oliveira , Torsten Böker , Maria Peña-Guerrero , Giovanna Giardino , Elena Manjavacas , Charles Proffitt , Timothy Rawle

Optical performance of the JWST MIRI flight model: characterization of the point spread function at high-resolution

The Mid Infra Red Instrument (MIRI) is one of the four instruments onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), providing imaging, coronagraphy and spectroscopy over the 5-28 microns band. To verify the optical performance of the…

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The impact of cosmic rays on the sensitivity of JWST/NIRSpec

The focal plane of the NIRSpec instrument on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is equipped with two Teledyne H2RG near-IR detectors, state-of-the-art HgCdTe sensors with excellent noise performance. Once JWST is in space, however,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Giardino , S. Birkmann , M. Robberto , P. Ferruit , B. J. Rauscher , M. Sirianni , C. Alves de Oliveira , T. Boeker , N. Luetzgendorf , M. te Plate , E. Puga , T. Rawle

Observing transiting planets with JWST -- Prime targets and their synthetic spectral observations

The James Webb Space Telescope will enable astronomers to obtain exoplanet spectra of unprecedented precision. Especially the MIRI instrument may shed light on the nature of the cloud particles obscuring planetary transmission spectra in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Paul Mollière , Roy van Boekel , Jeroen Bouwman , Thomas Henning , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Michiel Min

Improved Empirical Backgrounds for JWST NIRISS Image/WFSS Data Reduction

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a versatile instrument for collecting imaging and wide-field slitless spectroscopy (WFSS) data for surveys of galaxy clusters,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Raphael E. Hviding , Ivelina G. Momcheva , Leonardo Clarke

Simulating and interpreting deep observations in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field with the JWST/NIRSpec low-resolution 'prism'

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will enable the detection of optical emission lines in galaxies spanning a broad range of luminosities out to redshifts z>10. Measurements of key galaxy properties, such as star formation rate and…

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