Wide field Slitless Spectroscopy with JWST's MIRI
Andreea Petric, Sarah Kendrew, David Law, Alberto Noriega Crespo, Bryan Holler, Jane Morrison, Jonathan Aguilar, Misty Cracraft, Ian Wong, Stacey Alberts, Dean Hines, Kate Rowlands, Ned Molter, G. C. Sloan, Mike Engesser
Abstract
We present a snapshot of the ongoing efforts to obtain background-subtracted, wavelength-, and flux-calibrated spectra taken with the new Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) mode for the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), offered for the first time in JWST Cycle 5 (starting July 2026). We describe here the capabilities of the new mode, the operational concept, and an overview of the calibration and pipeline development activities that are currently ongoing.
Create a lesson
Related papers
Characterization of the CSST Survey Camera CCDs: I. basic electro-optical performance
Zun Luo, Hu Zhan, Youhua Xu et al.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Community Participation Program
Dmitry Savransky, Vanessa P. Bailey, Schuyler G. Wolff et al.
Supporting users in their observation preparation - the ESO ObsPrep tool
Monika G. Petr-Gotzens, Vincenzo Forchi, Andrea Mehner et al.
The GOTO Telescope Control System
Martin J. Dyer, Vik S. Dhillon, Stuart Littlefair et al.
cosmokdtree: a flexible OpenMP-parallelized k-d tree for computational astrophysics applications
Óscar Monllor-Berbegal, David Vallés-Pérez, Susana Planelles et al.
Transitioning from ADS to SciX to Serve 21st Century Astronomy
Jennifer Lynn Bartlett, Suze Kundu, Alberto Accomazzi et al.