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The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning
Jane R. Rigby, Marshall D. Perrin, Michael W. McElwain, Randy A. Kimble, S. D. Friedman, Matthew Lallo, René Doyon, Lee D. Feinberg, Pierre Ferruit, Alistair Glasse, Marcia Rieke, G. H. Rieke, Gillian Wright, Chris J. Willott, Knicole D. Colón, Stefanie N. Milam, Susan G. Neff, Christopher C. Stark, Jeff A. Valenti, Jim Abell, Faith Abney, Yasin M. Abul-Huda, D. Scott Acton, Evan M. Adams, David Adler, Jonathan Aguilar, Nasif Ahmed, Loïc Albert, Stacey Alberts, David C. Aldridge, Marsha Allen, Martin Altenburg, Javier Álvarez-Márquez, Catarina Alves de Oliveira, Greg Andersen, Harry L. Anderson, Sara Anderson, Ioannis Argyriou, Amber Armstrong, Santiago Arribas, Étienne Artigau, Amanda Arvai, Charles B. Atkinson, Gregory Bacon, Thomas Bair, Kimberly C. Banks, Jaclyn Barrientes, Bruce R. Barringer, Peter Bartosik, William D. Bast, Pierre Baudoz, Thomas G. Beatty, Katie Bechtold, Tracy L. Beck, E. Bergeron, Matthew D. Bergkoetter, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Stephan M. Birkmann, Ronald Blazek, Claire Blome, A. Boccaletti, Torsten Böker, John Boia, Nina Bonaventura, Nicholas Bond, Kari Bosley, Ray Boucarut, Matthew Bourque, J. Bouwman, Gary Bower, Charles W. Bowers, Martha L. Boyer, Larry Bradley, Gregory R. Brady, Hannah Braun, David Breda, Pamela Bresnahan, Stacey N. Bright, C. T. Britt, Asa Bromenschenkel, Brian Brooks, Keira Brooks, Bob Brown, Matthew Brown, Patricia D. Brown, M. Bürger, H. Bushouse, Steven Cale, Alex J. Cameron, Peter J. Cameron, Alicia Canipe, James Caplinger, Francis Caputo, Mihai Cara, Larkin Carey, Stefano Carniani, Maria Carrasquilla, Margaret Carruthers, Michael Case, Riggs Catherine, D. Chance, G. R. Chapman, S. Charlot, Brian Charlow, P. Chayer, Bin Chen, Brian Cherinka, Sarah Chichester, Zack Chilton, Taylor S. Chonis, Mark Clampin, Charles R. Clark, Kerry L. Clark, Dan Coe, Benee Coleman, Brian J. Comber, Tom Comeau, Dennis Connolly, James Fenimore Cooper, Rachel Cooper, Eric Coppock, Matteo Correnti, Christophe Cossou, A. Coulais, Laura Coyle, Misty Cracraft, Mirko Curti, Steven Cuturic, Katherine Davis, Michael W. Davis, Bruce H. Dean, Amy S. Delisa, Wim deMeester, Nadia Dencheva, Nadezhda Dencheva, Joseph DePasquale, Jeremy Deschenes, Örs Hunor Detre, R. I. Diaz, D. Dicken, Audrey DiFelice, Matthew Dillman, W. V. Dixon, J. B. Doggett, Tom Donaldson, Rob Douglas, Kimberly DuPrie, J. Dupuis, John Durning, Nilufar Easmin, Weston Eck, Chinwe Edeani, Eiichi Egami, Ralf Ehrenwinkler, J. Eisenhamer, Michael Eisenhower, Michelle Elie, James M. Elliott, Kyle Elliott, T. A. Ellis, Michael Engesser, Néstor Espinoza, Odessa Etienne, M. Etxaluze, Patrick Falini, Matthew Feeney, Malcolm Ferry, Joseph Filippazzo, Brian Fincham, Mees Fix, Nicolas Flagey, Michael Florian, Jim Flynn, Erin Fontanella, Terrance Ford, Peter Forshay, Ori D. Fox, David E. Franz, Henry Fu, A. W. Fullerton, С. В. Галкин, Anthony Galyer, M. García-Marín, Jonathan P. Gardner, Lisa Gardner, Dennis Garland, Bruce C. Garrett, Danny Gasman, Andras Gáspár, D. Gaudreau, Peter Gauthier, Vincent Geers, Paul H. Geithner, Mario Gennaro, Giovanna Giardino, J. H. Girard, Mark Giuliano, Kirk Glassmire, Adrian M. Glauser, Stuart D. Glazer, John J. Godfrey, D. A. Golimowski, David Gollnitz, Fan Gong, S. Gonzaga, Michael Gordon, Karl D. Gordon, Paul Goudfrooij, Thomas P. Greene, Matthew A. Greenhouse, Stefano Grimaldi, Andrew Groebner, Timothy Grundy, P. Guillard, Irvin Gutman, Kong Q. Ha, Peter Haderlein, Andria Hagedorn, Kevin Hainline, C. S. Haley, Maryam Hami, F. Hamilton, Heidi B. Hammel, Carl Hansen, Tom Harkins, Michael W. Harr, Jessica Hart, Quyen N. Hart, G. Hartig, Ryan Hashimoto, Sujee Haskins, William E. Hathaway, Keith Havey, Brian Hayden, Karen A. Hecht, Chris Heller-Boyer, Caroline Henriques, Alaina Henry, Hermann Karl, Scarlin Hernandez, B. E. Hesman, Brian Hicks, B. Hilbert, Dean C. Hines, Melissa Hoffman, S. T. Holfeltz, Bryan J. Holler, Jennifer Hoppa, Kyle Hott, Joseph M. Howard, Rick Howard, Alexander Hunter, David J. Hunter, Brendan Hurst, B. Husemann, Leah Hustak, Luminita Ilinca Ignat, G. D. Illingworth, Sandra Irish, Wallace Jackson, Amir Jahromi, P. Jakobsen, LeAndrea Rae James, Bryan James, William Januszewski, Ann Jenkins, Hussein Jirdeh, Phillip Johnson, Timothy J. Johnson, Ron Jones, Danny P. Jones, Olivia Jones, Ian Jordan, Margaret Jordan, Sarah Jurczyk, Alden S. Jurling, Catherine Kaleida, Phillip Kalmanson, Jens Kammerer, Huijo Kang, Shaw-Hong Kao, Diane Karakla, Patrick Kavanagh, Doug Kelly, Sarah Kendrew, Herbert V. Kennedy, Deborah Kenny, Ritva Keski-kuha, C. D. Keyes, Richard C. Kidwell, W. Kinzel, Jeff Kirk, Mark Kirkpatrick, Danielle Kirshenblat, Pamela Klaassen, Bryan Knapp, J. Scott Knight, Perry Knollenberg, Robert Koehler, Anton M. Koekemoer, Aiden Kovacs, Trey Kulp, Nimisha Kumari, Mark Kyprianou, Stephanie La Massa, Aurora Labador, Á. Labiano, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Charles-Philippe Lajoie, May M.L. Lam, Tracy L. Lamb, Scott D. Lambros, Richard Lampenfield, J. William Langston, Kirsten L. Larson, David R. Law, Jon Lawrence, David Lee, Jarron Leisenring, Kelly Lepo, Michael Leveille, N. A. Levenson, Marie Levine, Zena Levy, Dan Lewis, Hannah M. Lewis, Mattia Libralato, Paul A. Lightsey, Miranda Link, Lily Liu, Amy Lo, Alexandra Lockwood, Ryan M. Logue, Chris Long, Douglas Long, Charles Loomis, M. López-Caniego, José Lorenzo Alvarez, Jennifer Love-Pruitt, Adrian B. Lucy, Nora Lützgendorf, Peiman Maghami, R. Maiolino, Melissa Major, Sunita Malla, E. M. Malumuth, Elena Manjavacas, Crystal Mannfolk, Amanda Marrione, A. P. Marston, A. R. Martel, Marc Maschmann, Gregory Masci, Michaela Masciarelli, Michael Maszkiewicz, John Mather, Kenny McKenzie, B. McLean, Matthew McMaster, Katie Melbourne, M. Meléndez, Michael Menzel, Kaiya Merz, Michele Meyett, Luis Meza, Cherie L. Miskey, K. A. Misselt, Christopher A. Moller, Jane Morrison, Ernie Morse, H. Moseley, Gary E. Mosier, Matt Mountain, Julio Mueckay, Michael Mueller, Susan E. Mullally, Jess Murphy, Katherine T. Murray, Claire E. Murray, David Mustelier, James Muzerolle, Matthew Mycroft, Richard Myers, Kaila Myrick, Shashvat Nanavati, Elizabeth Nance, Omnarayani Nayak, B. J. Naylor, Edmund Nelan, Bryony Nickson, Alethea Nielson, M. A. Nieto‐Santisteban, Nikolay Nikolov, A. Noriega‐Crespo, Brian O’Shaughnessy, Brian O’Sullivan, William Ochs, P. Ogle, Brenda Oleszczuk, Joseph Olmsted, Shannon Osborne, Richard Ottens, Beverly Owens, Camilla Pacifici, Alyssa Pagan, James S. Page, Sang Chan Park, Keith Parrish, Polychronis Patapis, Lee Paul, Tyler Pauly, Cheryl Pavlovsky, Andrew Pedder, Matthew Peek, María Peña-Guerrero, Konstantin Penanen, Yesenia Perez, Michele Perna, Beth Perriello, Kevin G. Phillips, Martin Pietraszkiewicz, Jean-Paul Pinaud, Nor Pirzkal, Joseph Pitman, Aidan Piwowar, Vera Platais, Danielle Player, Rachel Plesha, Joe Pollizi, Ethan Polster, K. M. Pontoppidan, Blair Porterfield, Charles Proffitt, Laurent Pueyo, Christine Pulliam, Brian Quirt, Irma Quispe Neira, Rafael Ramos Alarcon, Leah Ramsay, Greg Rapp, Robert Rapp, Bernard J. Rauscher, Swara Ravindranath, Tim Rawle, Michael W. Regan, Timothy A. Reichard, Carl Reis, Michael E. Ressler, A. Rest, P. T. Reynolds, Timothy Rhue, Karen Richon, Emily Rickman, Michael Ridgaway, C. Ritchie, Hans‐Walter Rix, Massimo Robberto, Gregory H. Robinson, Michael E. Robinson, Orion Robinson, Frank Rock, David R. Rodriguez, Bruno Rodríguez Del Pino, Thomas L. Roellig, Scott Rohrbach, Anthony Roman, Fred Romelfanger, Perry Rose, Anthony Roteliuk, Marc Roth, Braden Rothwell, Neil Rowlands, Arpita Roy, P. Royer, P. Royle, Chunlei Rui, Peter Rumler, Joel Runnels, Melissa L. Russ, Zafar Rustamkulov, Grant Ryden, H. Ryer, Modhumita Sabata, Derek Sabatke, Elena Sabbi, Bridget Samuelson, Benjamin Sapp, Bradley Sappington, B. A. Sargent, Arne Sauer, Silvia Scheithauer, Everett Schlawin, Joseph Schlitz, Tyler Schmitz, Analyn Schneider, J. Schreiber, Vonessa Schulze, Ryan Schwab, John D. Scott, Kenneth R. Sembach, Clare Shanahan, Bryan Shaughnessy, Richard A. Shaw, Nanci Shawger, Christopher Wiley Shay, Evan Sheehan, Sharon Shen, A. Sherman, Bernard Shiao, Hsin-Yi Shih, Irene Shivaei, Matthew Sienkiewicz, David K. Sing, M. Sirianni, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Joy Skipper, G. C. Sloan, Christine Slocum, Steven Slowinski, Erin Smith, Eric H. Smith, Denise A. Smith, Corbett Smith, Gregory F. Snyder, Warren Soh, Sangmo Tony Sohn, Christian Soto, Richard P. Spencer, Scott S. Stallcup, John Stansberry, C. H. Starr, Elysia Starr, Alphonso Stewart, M. Stiavelli, Amber N. Straughn, David Strickland, Jeff Stys, Francis Summers, Fengwu Sun, Ben Sunnquist, Daryl A. Swade, M. Swam, Robert A. Swaters, Robby Swoish, Joanna M. Taylor, Rolanda Taylor, Maurice te Plate, Mason Tea, Kelly Teague, Randal Telfer, Tea Temim, Deepashri Thatte, Christopher Thompson, Linda F. Thompson, Shaun Thomson, Tuomo Tikkanen, William Tippet, Connor William Todd, Sharon Toolan, H. D. Tran, Edwin Trejo, Justin Truong, Chris Tsukamoto, Samuel Tustain, Harrison Tyra, Leonardo Úbeda, Kelli Underwood, M. Uzzo, Julie Van Campen, Thomas Vandal, B. Vandenbussche, Begoña Vila, Kevin Volk, G. M. Wahlgren, Mark Waldman, Chanda Walker, Michel Wander, Christine Warfield, Gerald Warner, Matthew Wasiak, Mitchell Watkins, Andrew J. Weaver, M. Weilert, Nick Weiser, Ben Weiss, Sarah Weissman, Alan D. Welty, Garrett West, Lauren Wheate, Elizabeth Wheatley, Thomas Wheeler, Kevin Whiteaker, Paul Whitehouse, Jennifer Whiteleather, William Russell Whitman, Christina C. Williams, Christopher Willmer, S. Willoughby, A. S. Wilson, Gregory D. Wirth, Emily Wislowski, Erin Wolf, David Wolfe, Schuyler Wolff, Bill Workman, R. R. Wright, Carl Wu, Rai Wu, Kristen B. Wymer, Kayla Yates, Christopher R. Yeager, Jared Yeates, Ethan Yerger, Jinmi Yoon, Alice M. Young, Susan Yu, Dean Zak, Peter Zeidler, Julia Zhou, Thomas P. Zielinski, Cristian Zincke, S. G. Zonak
Bibliographic record
VenuePublications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicStellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Canadian institutionsNational Research Council CanadaHerzberg Institute of AstrophysicsCanadian Space AgencyUniversité de Montréal
FundersCalifornia Institute of TechnologyJet Propulsion LaboratoryNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
KeywordsJames Webb Space TelescopeProject commissioningTelescopeSpacecraftSuiteAsteroidPhysicsRemote sensingAstronomyComputer scienceAstrobiologyGeologyPublishingHistory
Abstract
Abstract This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performance of the spacecraft, telescope, science instruments, and ground system, with an emphasis on differences from pre-launch expectations. Commissioning has made clear that JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built. Moreover, almost across the board, the science performance of JWST is better than expected; in most cases, JWST will go deeper faster than expected. The telescope and instrument suite have demonstrated the sensitivity, stability, image quality, and spectral range that are necessary to transform our understanding of the cosmos through observations spanning from near-earth asteroids to the most distant galaxies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.030
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.031
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.030 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".
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Citations417
Published2023
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes