PEARLS: Near-infrared Photometry in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field * * Partly based on observations taken with the MMT, a joint facility operated by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution.

Willmer, Christopher N. A.; Ly, Chun; Kikuta, Satoshi; Kattner, S. A.; Jansen, Rolf A.; Cohen, Seth H.; Windhorst, Rogier A.; Smail, Ian; Tompkins, Scott; Beacom, John F.; Cheng, Cheng; Conselice, Christopher J.; Frye, Brenda L.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Hathi, Nimish; Hyun, Minhee; Im, Myungshin; Willner, S. P.; Zhao, X.; Brisken, Walter A.; Civano, F.; Cotton, William; Hasinger, Günther; Maksym, W. Peter; Rieke, Marcia J.; Grogin, Norman A.

Abstract

We present near-infrared (NIR) ground-based Y, J, H, and K imaging obtained in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (NEP TDF) using the MMT-Magellan Infrared Imager and Spectrometer on the MMT. These new observations cover a field of approximately 230 arcmin2 in Y, H, and K, and 313 arcmin2 in J. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we estimate a 1σ depth relative to the background sky of (Y, J, H, K) = (23.80, 23.53, 23.13, 23.28) in AB magnitudes for point sources at a 95% completeness level. These observations are part of the ground-based effort to characterize this region of the sky, supplementing space-based data obtained with Chandra, NuSTAR, XMM, AstroSat, Hubble Space Telescope, and JWST. This paper describes the observations and reduction of the NIR imaging and combines these NIR data with archival imaging in the visible, obtained with the Subaru Hyper-Suprime-Cam, to produce a merged catalog of 57,501 sources. The new observations reported here, plus the corresponding multiwavelength catalog, will provide a baseline for time-domain studies of bright sources in the NEP TDF.

Citation

Willmer, C. N. A., Ly, C., Kikuta, S., Kattner, S. A., Jansen, R. A., Cohen, S. H., …Grogin, N. A. (2023). PEARLS: Near-infrared Photometry in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field * * Partly based on observations taken with the MMT, a joint facility operated by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 269(1), Article 21. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acf57d

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 28, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Nov 1, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-11
• Deposit Date: Nov 10, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 10, 2023
• Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
• Print ISSN: 0067-0049
• Publisher: American Astronomical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 269
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 21
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acf57d
• Keywords: Galaxy evolution, Galaxy photometry, Catalogs, Galaxy counts, Surveys
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1884004