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The first large catalogue of spectroscopic redshifts in Webb's first deep field, SMACS J0723.3−7327.

Authors :
Noirot, Gaël
Desprez, Guillaume
Asada, Yoshihisa
Sawicki, Marcin
Estrada-Carpenter, Vicente
Martis, Nicholas
Sarrouh, Ghassan
Strait, Victoria
Abraham, Roberto
Bradač, Maruša
Brammer, Gabriel
Iyer, Kartheik
MacFarland, Shannon
Matharu, Jasleen
Mowla, Lamiya
Muzzin, Adam
Pacifici, Camilla
Ravindranath, Swara
Willott, Chris J
Albert, Loïc
Source :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 10/20/2023, Vol. 525 Issue 2, p1867-1884. 18p.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

We present a spectroscopic redshift catalogue of the SMACS J0723.3−7327 field ('Webb's First Deep Field') obtained from JWST /NIRISS grism spectroscopy and supplemented with JWST /NIRSpec and VLT/MUSE redshifts. The catalogue contains a total of 190 sources with secure spectroscopic redshifts, including 156 NIRISS grism redshifts, 123 of which are for sources whose redshifts were previously unknown. These new grism redshifts are secured with two or more spectroscopic features (64 sources), or with a single spectral feature whose identity is secured from the object's nine-band photometric redshift (59 sources). These are complemented with 17 NIRSpec and 48 MUSE redshifts, including six new NIRSpec redshifts identified in this work. In addition to the z cl = 0.39 cluster galaxy redshifts (for which we provide ∼40 new NIRISS absorption-line redshifts), we also find three prominent galaxy overdensities at higher redshifts – at z  = 1.1, z  = 1.4, and z  = 2.0 – that were until now not seen in the JWST /NIRSpec and VLT/MUSE data. The paper describes the characteristics of our spectroscopic redshift sample and the methodology we have employed to obtain it. Our redshift catalogue is made available to the community at https://niriss.github.io/smacs0723. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00358711
Volume :
525
Issue :
2
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
171877174
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1019