Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)
Daniel J. Eisenstein, Chris Willott, Stacey Alberts, Santiago Arribas, Nina Bonaventura, Andrew J. Bunker, Alex J. Cameron, Stefano Carniani, Stephane Charlot, Emma Curtis-Lake, Francesco D’Eugenio, Pierre Ferruit, Giovanna Giardino, Kevin Hainline, Ryan Hausen, Peter Jakobsen, Benjamin D. Johnson, Roberto Maiolino, B. Rauscher, Marcia Rieke, George Rieke, Hans-Walter Rix, Brant Robertson, Daniel P. Stark, Sandro Tacchella, Christina C. Williams, Christopher N. A. Willmer, William M. Baker, Stefi Baum, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Kristan Boyett, Zuyi Chen, Jacopo Chevallard, Chiara Circosta, Mirko Curti, A. Lola Danhaive, Christa DeCoursey, Ryan Endsley, Anna de Graaff, A. J. Dressler, Eiichi Egami, Jakob M. Helton, Raphael E. Hviding, Zhiyuan Ji, Gareth C. Jones, Nimisha Kumari, Nora Lützgendorf, Isaac Laseter, Tobias J. Looser, Jianwei Lyu, Michael V. Maseda, Erica Nelson, Eleonora Parlanti, Michele Perna, Dávid Puskás, Tim Rawle, Bruno Rodríguez Del Pino, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Lester Sandles, Aayush Saxena, Jan Scholtz, Katherine Sharpe, Irene Shivaei, Maddie S. Silcock, Charlotte Simmonds, Maya Skarbinski, Renske Smit, Meredith Stone, Katherine A. Suess, Fengwu Sun, Mengtao Tang, Michael Topping, Hannah Übler, Natalia C. Villanueva, Imaan E. B. Wallace, Lily Whitler, Joris Witstok, Charity Woodrum
Abstract
Abstract We present an overview of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), an ambitious program of infrared imaging and spectroscopy in the GOODS-S and GOODS-N deep fields, designed to study galaxy evolution from high redshift to cosmic noon. JADES uses about 770 hr of Cycle 1 guaranteed time largely from the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument teams. In GOODS-S, in and around the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and Chandra Deep Field South, JADES produces a deep imaging region of ∼42 arcmin 2 with over 100 hr of exposure time spread over nine NIRCam filters, including two medium-band filters. This is extended at medium depth in GOODS-S and GOODS-N with NIRCam imaging of ∼167 arcmin 2 , averaging 25 hr of exposure over 8–10 filters. In both fields, we conduct extensive NIRSpec multiobject spectroscopy, including two deep pointings of 55 hr exposure time, 14 medium pointings of ∼12 hr, and 15 shallower pointings of ∼4 hr, targeting over 5000 Hubble Space Telescope– and JWST-detected faint sources with five low-, medium-, and high-resolution dispersers covering 0.6–5.3 μ m. Finally, JADES extends redward via coordinated parallels with the JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument, featuring ∼10 arcmin 2 with 43 hr of exposure at 7.7 μ m and thrice that area with 1.4–6.8 hr of exposure at 12.8 and 15 μ m. For nearly 30 yr, the GOODS-S and GOODS-N fields have been developed as the premier deep fields on the sky; JADES is now providing a compelling start on JWST's legacy in these fields.