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author Robertson, Brant E.
Johnson, Benjamin D.
Tacchella, Sandro
Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Hainline, Kevin
Alberts, Stacey
Arribas, Santiago
Baker, William M.
Bunker, Andrew J.
Cameron, Alex J.
Carniani, Stefano
Carreira, Courtney
Chevallard, Jacopo
Circosta, Chiara
Curtis-Lake, Emma
Danhaive, A. Lola
Duan, Qiao
Egami, Eiichi
Hausen, Ryan
Helton, Jakob M.
Ji, Zhiyuan
Maiolino, Roberto
Pérez-González, Pablo G.
Puskás, Dávid
Rieke, Marcia
Rinaldi, Pierluigi
Sun, Fengwu
Sun, Yang
Übler, Hannah
Trussler, James A. A.
Villanueva, Natalia C.
Whitler, Lily
Williams, Christina C.
Willmer, Christopher N. A.
Willott, Chris
Wu, Zihao
Zhu, Yongda
author_facet Robertson, Brant E.
Johnson, Benjamin D.
Tacchella, Sandro
Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Hainline, Kevin
Alberts, Stacey
Arribas, Santiago
Baker, William M.
Bunker, Andrew J.
Cameron, Alex J.
Carniani, Stefano
Carreira, Courtney
Chevallard, Jacopo
Circosta, Chiara
Curtis-Lake, Emma
Danhaive, A. Lola
Duan, Qiao
Egami, Eiichi
Hausen, Ryan
Helton, Jakob M.
Ji, Zhiyuan
Maiolino, Roberto
Pérez-González, Pablo G.
Puskás, Dávid
Rieke, Marcia
Rinaldi, Pierluigi
Sun, Fengwu
Sun, Yang
Übler, Hannah
Trussler, James A. A.
Villanueva, Natalia C.
Whitler, Lily
Williams, Christina C.
Willmer, Christopher N. A.
Willott, Chris
Wu, Zihao
Zhu, Yongda
contents JADES Data Release 5 (DR5) photometric catalogs and describes the methodologies used for source detection, deblending, photometry, uncertainty estimation, and catalog curation. The catalogs are constructed from 35 space-based imaging mosaics obtained with JWST/NIRCam, JWST/MIRI, HST/ACS, and HST/WFC3, combining approximately 1250 hours of JADES imaging with extensive additional public JWST and HST observations in the GOODS fields. Sources are identified using custom signal-to-noise-based detection and deblending algorithms optimized for the depth, resolution, and complex point-spread-function structure of JWST imaging. Source centroids, shapes, and photometric apertures are determined using a new fast two-dimensional Gaussian regression method applied to detection-image profiles. We provide forced circular-aperture photometry, ellipsoidal Kron photometry, and curve-of-growth measurements for every source in every band. We introduce a new pixel-level regression framework to model photometric uncertainties as a function of aperture size and local mosaic properties, accounting for correlated noise in heterogeneous JWST mosaics. Photometric redshifts are computed using template-based fitting applied to both small-aperture photometry on unconvolved images and Kron photometry on common-PSF mosaics. The JADES DR5 catalogs supersede previous JADES photometric releases, and are publicly released through the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes and an interactive web interface.
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spellingShingle JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: Photometric Catalog
Robertson, Brant E.
Johnson, Benjamin D.
Tacchella, Sandro
Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Hainline, Kevin
Alberts, Stacey
Arribas, Santiago
Baker, William M.
Bunker, Andrew J.
Cameron, Alex J.
Carniani, Stefano
Carreira, Courtney
Chevallard, Jacopo
Circosta, Chiara
Curtis-Lake, Emma
Danhaive, A. Lola
Duan, Qiao
Egami, Eiichi
Hausen, Ryan
Helton, Jakob M.
Ji, Zhiyuan
Maiolino, Roberto
Pérez-González, Pablo G.
Puskás, Dávid
Rieke, Marcia
Rinaldi, Pierluigi
Sun, Fengwu
Sun, Yang
Übler, Hannah
Trussler, James A. A.
Villanueva, Natalia C.
Whitler, Lily
Williams, Christina C.
Willmer, Christopher N. A.
Willott, Chris
Wu, Zihao
Zhu, Yongda
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
JADES Data Release 5 (DR5) photometric catalogs and describes the methodologies used for source detection, deblending, photometry, uncertainty estimation, and catalog curation. The catalogs are constructed from 35 space-based imaging mosaics obtained with JWST/NIRCam, JWST/MIRI, HST/ACS, and HST/WFC3, combining approximately 1250 hours of JADES imaging with extensive additional public JWST and HST observations in the GOODS fields. Sources are identified using custom signal-to-noise-based detection and deblending algorithms optimized for the depth, resolution, and complex point-spread-function structure of JWST imaging. Source centroids, shapes, and photometric apertures are determined using a new fast two-dimensional Gaussian regression method applied to detection-image profiles. We provide forced circular-aperture photometry, ellipsoidal Kron photometry, and curve-of-growth measurements for every source in every band. We introduce a new pixel-level regression framework to model photometric uncertainties as a function of aperture size and local mosaic properties, accounting for correlated noise in heterogeneous JWST mosaics. Photometric redshifts are computed using template-based fitting applied to both small-aperture photometry on unconvolved images and Kron photometry on common-PSF mosaics. The JADES DR5 catalogs supersede previous JADES photometric releases, and are publicly released through the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes and an interactive web interface.
title JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: Photometric Catalog
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15956