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The UNCOVER Survey: A first-look HST+JWST catalog of 60,000 galaxies near Abell 2744 and beyond

6 Jan 2023arXiv:2301.02671links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

John R. Weaver, Sam E. Cutler, Richard Pan, Katherine E. Whitaker, Ivo Labbe, Sedona H. Price, Rachel Bezanson, Gabriel Brammer, Danilo Marchesini, Joel Leja, Bingjie Wang, Lukas J. Furtak, Adi Zitrin, Hakim Atek, Dan Coe, Pratika Dayal, Pieter van Dokkum, Robert Feldmann, Natascha Forster Schreiber, Marijn Franx, Seiji Fujimoto, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Karl Glazebrook, Anna de Graaff, Jenny E. Greene, Stephanie Juneau, Susan Kassin, Mariska Kriek, Gourav Khullar, Michael Maseda, Lamiya A. Mowla, Adam Muzzin, Themiya Nanayakkara, Erica J. Nelson, Pascal A. Oesch, Camilla Pacifici, Casey Papovich, David Setton, Alice E. Shapley, Renske Smit, Mauro Stefanon, Edward N. Taylor, Andrea Weibel, Christina C. Williams

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In November 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) returned deep near-infrared images of Abell 2744 -- a powerful lensing cluster capable of magnifying distant, incipient galaxies beyond it. Together with the existing Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, this publicly available dataset opens a fundamentally new discovery space to understand the remaining mysteries of the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. In this work, we detect and measure some 60,000 objects across the 49 arcmin² JWST footprint down to a 5 σ limiting magnitude of ∼30 mag in 0.32" apertures. Photometry is performed using circular apertures on images matched to the point spread function of the reddest NIRCam broad band, F444W, and cleaned of bright cluster galaxies and the related intra-cluster light. To give an impression of the photometric performance, we measure photometric redshifts and achieve a σ_(NMAD)≈0.03 based on known, but relatively small, spectroscopic samples. With this paper, we publicly release our HST and JWST PSF-matched photometric catalog with optimally assigned aperture sizes for easy use, along with single aperture catalogs, photometric redshifts, rest-frame colors, and individual magnification estimates. These catalogs will set the stage for efficient and deep spectroscopic follow-up of some of the first JWST-selected samples in Summer 2023.

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