1. The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS)
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Finkelstein, Steven L., Bagley, Micaela B., Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Kocevski, Dale D., Koekemoer, Anton M., Lotz, Jennifer M., Papovich, Casey, Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G., Pirzkal, Nor, Somerville, Rachel S., Trump, Jonathan R., Yang, Guang, Yung, L. Y. Aaron, Fontana, Adriano, Grazian, Andrea, Grogin, Norman A., Kewley, Lisa J., Kirkpatrick, Allison, Larson, Rebecca L., Pentericci, Laura, Ravindranath, Swara, Wilkins, Stephen M., Almaini, Omar, Amorin, Ricardo O., Barro, Guillermo, Bhatawdekar, Rachana, Bisigello, Laura, Brooks, Madisyn, Buitrago, Fernando, Calabro, Antonello, Castellano, Marco, Cheng, Yingjie, Cleri, Nikko J., Cole, Justin W., Cooper, M. C., Cooper, Olivia R., Costantin, Luca, Cox, Isa G., Croton, Darren, Daddi, Emanuele, Davis, Kelcey, Dekel, Avishai, Elbaz, David, Fernandez, Vital, Fujimoto, Seiji, Gandolfi, Giovanni, Gardner, Jonathan P., Gawiser, Eric, Giavalisco, Mauro, Gomez-Guijarro, Carlos, Guo, Yuchen, Gupta, Ansh R., Hathi, Nimish P., Harish, Santosh, Henry, Aurelien, Hirschmann, Michaela, Hu, Weida, Hutchison, Taylor A., Iyer, Kartheik G., Jaskot, Anne E., Jha, Saurabh W., Jung, Intae, Kokorev, Vasily, Kurczynski, Peter, Leung, Gene C. K., Llerena, Mario, Long, Arianna S., Lucas, Ray A., Lu, Shiying, McGrath, Elizabeth J., McIntosh, Daniel H., Merlin, Emiliano, Morales, Alexa M., Napolitano, Lorenzo, Pacucci, Fabio, Pandya, Viraj, Rafelski, Marc, Rodighiero, Giulia, Rose, Caitlin, Santini, Paola, Seille, Lise-Marie, Simons, Raymond C., Shen, Lu, Straughn, Amber N., Tacchella, Sandro, Vanderhoof, Brittany N., Vega-Ferrero, Jesus, Weiner, Benjamin J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Zhu, Peixin, Bell, Eric F., Wuyts, Stijn, Holwerda, Benne W., Wang, Xin, Wang, Weichen, and Zavala, Jorge A.
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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies - Abstract
We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey, a 77.2 hour Director's Discretionary Early Release Science Program. CEERS demonstrates, tests, and validates efficient extragalactic surveys using coordinated, overlapping parallel observations with the JWST instrument suite, including NIRCam and MIRI imaging, NIRSpec low (R~100) and medium (R~1000) resolution spectroscopy, and NIRCam slitless grism (R~1500) spectroscopy. CEERS targets the Hubble Space Telescope-observed region of the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) field, supported by a rich set of multiwavelength data. CEERS facilitated immediate community science in both of the extragalactic core JWST science drivers ``First Light" and ``Galaxy Assembly," including: 1) The discovery and characterization of large samples of galaxies at z >~ 10 from ~90 arcmin^2 of NIRCam imaging, constraining their abundance and physical nature; 2) Deep spectra of >1000 galaxies, including dozens of galaxies at 6
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- 2025