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author Bezanson, Rachel
Labbe, Ivo
Whitaker, Katherine E.
Leja, Joel
Price, Sedona H.
Franx, Marijn
Brammer, Gabe
Marchesini, Danilo
Zitrin, Adi
Wang, Bingjie
Weaver, John R.
Furtak, Lukas J.
Atek, Hakim
Coe, Dan
Cutler, Sam E.
Dayal, Pratika
van Dokkum, Pieter
Feldmann, Robert
Schreiber, Natascha Forster
Fujimoto, Seiji
Geha, Marla
Glazebrook, Karl
de Graaff, Anna
Greene, Jenny E.
Juneau, Stephanie
Kassin, Susan
Kriek, Mariska
Khullar, Gourav
Maseda, Michael
Mowla, Lamiya A.
Muzzin, Adam
Nanayakkara, Themiya
Nelson, Erica J.
Oesch, Pascal A.
Pacifici, Camilla
Pan, Richard
Papovich, Casey
Setton, David
Shapley, Alice E.
Smit, Renske
Stefanon, Mauro
Taylor, Edward N.
Williams, Christina C.
author_facet Bezanson, Rachel
Labbe, Ivo
Whitaker, Katherine E.
Leja, Joel
Price, Sedona H.
Franx, Marijn
Brammer, Gabe
Marchesini, Danilo
Zitrin, Adi
Wang, Bingjie
Weaver, John R.
Furtak, Lukas J.
Atek, Hakim
Coe, Dan
Cutler, Sam E.
Dayal, Pratika
van Dokkum, Pieter
Feldmann, Robert
Schreiber, Natascha Forster
Fujimoto, Seiji
Geha, Marla
Glazebrook, Karl
de Graaff, Anna
Greene, Jenny E.
Juneau, Stephanie
Kassin, Susan
Kriek, Mariska
Khullar, Gourav
Maseda, Michael
Mowla, Lamiya A.
Muzzin, Adam
Nanayakkara, Themiya
Nelson, Erica J.
Oesch, Pascal A.
Pacifici, Camilla
Pan, Richard
Papovich, Casey
Setton, David
Shapley, Alice E.
Smit, Renske
Stefanon, Mauro
Taylor, Edward N.
Williams, Christina C.
contents In this paper we describe the survey design for the Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam ObserVations before the Epoch of Reionization (UNCOVER) Cycle 1 \JWST Treasury program, which executed its early imaging component in November 2022. The UNCOVER survey includes ultradeep ($\sim29-30\mathrm{AB}$) imaging of $\sim$45 arcmin$^2$ on and around the well-studied Abell 2744 galaxy cluster at $z=0.308$ and will follow-up ${\sim}500$ galaxies with extremely deep low-resolution spectroscopy with the NIRSpec/PRISM during the summer of 2023, with repeat visits in summer 2024. We describe the science goals, survey design, target selection, and planned data releases. We also present and characterize the depths of the first NIRCam imaging mosaic, highlighting previously unparalleled resolved and ultradeep 2-4 micron imaging of known objects in the field. The UNCOVER primary NIRCam mosaic spans 28.8 arcmin$^2$ in seven filters (F115W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F356W, F410M, F444W) and 16.8 arcmin$^2$ in our NIRISS parallel (F115W, F150W, F200W, F356W, and F444W). To maximize early community use of the Treasury data set, we publicly release full reduced mosaics of public JWST imaging including 45 arcmin$^2$ NIRCam and 17 arcmin$^2$ NIRISS mosaics on and around the Abell 2744 cluster, including the Hubble Frontier Field primary and parallel footprints.
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spellingShingle The JWST UNCOVER Treasury survey: Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam ObserVations before the Epoch of Reionization
Bezanson, Rachel
Labbe, Ivo
Whitaker, Katherine E.
Leja, Joel
Price, Sedona H.
Franx, Marijn
Brammer, Gabe
Marchesini, Danilo
Zitrin, Adi
Wang, Bingjie
Weaver, John R.
Furtak, Lukas J.
Atek, Hakim
Coe, Dan
Cutler, Sam E.
Dayal, Pratika
van Dokkum, Pieter
Feldmann, Robert
Schreiber, Natascha Forster
Fujimoto, Seiji
Geha, Marla
Glazebrook, Karl
de Graaff, Anna
Greene, Jenny E.
Juneau, Stephanie
Kassin, Susan
Kriek, Mariska
Khullar, Gourav
Maseda, Michael
Mowla, Lamiya A.
Muzzin, Adam
Nanayakkara, Themiya
Nelson, Erica J.
Oesch, Pascal A.
Pacifici, Camilla
Pan, Richard
Papovich, Casey
Setton, David
Shapley, Alice E.
Smit, Renske
Stefanon, Mauro
Taylor, Edward N.
Williams, Christina C.
Astrophysics of Galaxies
In this paper we describe the survey design for the Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam ObserVations before the Epoch of Reionization (UNCOVER) Cycle 1 \JWST Treasury program, which executed its early imaging component in November 2022. The UNCOVER survey includes ultradeep ($\sim29-30\mathrm{AB}$) imaging of $\sim$45 arcmin$^2$ on and around the well-studied Abell 2744 galaxy cluster at $z=0.308$ and will follow-up ${\sim}500$ galaxies with extremely deep low-resolution spectroscopy with the NIRSpec/PRISM during the summer of 2023, with repeat visits in summer 2024. We describe the science goals, survey design, target selection, and planned data releases. We also present and characterize the depths of the first NIRCam imaging mosaic, highlighting previously unparalleled resolved and ultradeep 2-4 micron imaging of known objects in the field. The UNCOVER primary NIRCam mosaic spans 28.8 arcmin$^2$ in seven filters (F115W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F356W, F410M, F444W) and 16.8 arcmin$^2$ in our NIRISS parallel (F115W, F150W, F200W, F356W, and F444W). To maximize early community use of the Treasury data set, we publicly release full reduced mosaics of public JWST imaging including 45 arcmin$^2$ NIRCam and 17 arcmin$^2$ NIRISS mosaics on and around the Abell 2744 cluster, including the Hubble Frontier Field primary and parallel footprints.
title The JWST UNCOVER Treasury survey: Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam ObserVations before the Epoch of Reionization
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04026