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JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: NIRCam Imaging in GOODS-S and GOODS-N

Benjamin D. Johnson, Brant E. Robertson, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Sandro Tacchella, Dávid Puskás, Qiao Duan, Zihao Wu, Kevin Hainline, Marcia Rieke, Chris Willott, Christopher N. A. Willmer, James A. A. Trussler, Stacey Alberts, Santiago Arribas, William M. Baker, Andrew J. Bunker, Alex J. Cameron, Stefano Carniani, Courtney Carreira, Phillip A. Cargile, Emma Curtis-Lake, Eiichi Egami, Ryan Hausen, Jakob M. Helton, Zhiyuan Ji, Roberto Maiolino, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Fengwu Sun, Yang Sun, Natalia C. Villanueva, Christina C. Williams, Yongda Zhu

TL;DR

DR5 delivers a comprehensive, well-calibrated NIRCam imaging resource for GOODS-S and GOODS-N, enabling stable, deep multi-band photometry and variability studies. The approach combines DR5 NIRCam mosaics from JADES and affiliated programs, plus external imaging, yielding up to 18 filters over $469\mathrm{arcmin}^2$ with $250\mathrm{arcmin}^2$ achieving eight-filter or deeper coverage. The release includes mosaics for individual and combined programs to support photometric redshifts, variability, and ultra-deep photometry; it also documents data provenance and limitations. The resulting resource enables precise color measurements and cross-survey comparisons, facilitating high-redshift galaxy studies and time-domain analyses in two premier deep fields.

Abstract

We present the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) imaging products of the fifth data release (DR5) of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). The JADES survey is one of the most ambitious programs yet conducted on JWST, producing deep infrared imaging and multiobject spectroscopy on the GOODS-S and GOODS-N extragalactic deep fields in order to explore galaxies to the earliest epoch. Here we describe the NIRCam data reduction procedures that result in deep and well-characterized mosaics in up to 18 filters covering 469 arcmin$^2$, with 250 arcmin$^2$ having at least 8 filters of coverage. This release contains the full NIRCam imaging of JADES, over 800 JWST mission hours, as well as co-reductions of 19 other programs in these two premier deep fields. We perform detailed tests on the final data products, thereby characterizing the photometric properties, point-spread function, and astrometric alignment. We release mosaics for individual programs (or epochs, depending on scheduling) and the mosaics combining data from all programs in order to facilitate photometric variability studies and the deepest possible photometry.

JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: NIRCam Imaging in GOODS-S and GOODS-N

TL;DR

DR5 delivers a comprehensive, well-calibrated NIRCam imaging resource for GOODS-S and GOODS-N, enabling stable, deep multi-band photometry and variability studies. The approach combines DR5 NIRCam mosaics from JADES and affiliated programs, plus external imaging, yielding up to 18 filters over with achieving eight-filter or deeper coverage. The release includes mosaics for individual and combined programs to support photometric redshifts, variability, and ultra-deep photometry; it also documents data provenance and limitations. The resulting resource enables precise color measurements and cross-survey comparisons, facilitating high-redshift galaxy studies and time-domain analyses in two premier deep fields.

Abstract

We present the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) imaging products of the fifth data release (DR5) of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). The JADES survey is one of the most ambitious programs yet conducted on JWST, producing deep infrared imaging and multiobject spectroscopy on the GOODS-S and GOODS-N extragalactic deep fields in order to explore galaxies to the earliest epoch. Here we describe the NIRCam data reduction procedures that result in deep and well-characterized mosaics in up to 18 filters covering 469 arcmin, with 250 arcmin having at least 8 filters of coverage. This release contains the full NIRCam imaging of JADES, over 800 JWST mission hours, as well as co-reductions of 19 other programs in these two premier deep fields. We perform detailed tests on the final data products, thereby characterizing the photometric properties, point-spread function, and astrometric alignment. We release mosaics for individual programs (or epochs, depending on scheduling) and the mosaics combining data from all programs in order to facilitate photometric variability studies and the deepest possible photometry.
Paper Structure (7 sections, 3 figures)

This paper contains 7 sections, 3 figures.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Observations
  3. JADES Guaranteed Time Observations
  4. JADES Affiliated Guest Observer Programs
  5. NIRCam Imaging External to JADES
  6. Notable omissions
  7. Summary of the data

Figures (3)

  • Figure 1: Footprint of the GOODS-S NIRCam LW images in different years, colored by the program kind (§\ref{['sec:observations']}). We separate the pure parallel programs, all external to JADES, to highlight the important role these programs have played in expanding the coverage. The heavy black outlines in each panel indicate regions of particularly deep imaging: from east to west these are NGDEEP NIRCam parallel imaging, the 1180/Deep area, the JADES Origins Field (JOF), and the 1287 Parallel area. These footprints do not account for area lost to artifact masking. When LW imaging was not obtained (i.e. for some NIRCam/Grism observations without pre-imaging) we show the SW footprint instead.
  • Figure 2: Footprint of the GOODS-N NIRCam LW images in three separate years, colored by the program kind. These footprints do not account for area lost to artifact masking. We note that shallower and SW-only data taken in pure-parallel mode extends off the northwest edge of the full JADES mosaic.
  • Figure 3: Filter coverage of JADES DR5. Left: Area as a function of the number of filters. Middle: Map of the number of filters available in GOODS-S. Right: Same as middle, but for GOODS-N.