Want to keep track of the James Webb Space Telescope's progress?

[pantheory]

12 minutes ago, Weezer said:

 Maybe we will get to see some of the grey people with large eyes!  I'm only half joking because I think they (and others) just might be out there.

 

Out there somewhere, most likely. Near to us, less likely IMO.

[walterpthefirst]

The latest about the James Webb Space Telescope.

 

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

 

 

 

And here is a list of it's scheduled studies of galaxies.

 

ID	Program Title	PI & Co-PIs	Exclusive Access Period (months)	Prime/ Parallel Time (hours)	Instrument/ Mode	Type
1433	Physical Properties of the Triply-Lensed z = 11 Galaxy	PI: Dan Coe	0	11.3	NIRCam/Imaging NIRSpec/MOS	GO
1567	Early Galaxy Assembly Uncovered with ALMA and JWST: A Remarkably UV and [CII] Bright, Strongly Lensed Sub-L* Galaxy at z=6.072	PI: Seiji Fujimoto	12	12.3	NIRCam/Imaging NIRSpec/IFU	GO
1571	PASSAGE– Parallel Application of Slitless Spectroscopy to Analyze Galaxy Evolution	PI: Matthew Malkan	0	0/591	NIRISS/WFSS	GO, Pure Parallel
1572	Mapping, Resolving and Penetrating into the Dusty Spiderweb Protocluster with Unique Pa-beta Imaging	PI: Helmut Dannerbauer Co-PI: Yusei Koyama	12	3.6	NIRCam/Imaging	GO
1626	Achieving a Revolutionary Panchromatic View of Early Galaxy Growth through NIRSpec/IFU Observations of 12 Massive z>6.5 Galaxies with ALMA-derived [CII] Redshifts	PI: Mauro Stefanon	12	14.1	NIRSpec/IFU	GO
1635	Galaxy Protoclusters as Drivers of Cosmic Reionization	PI: Crystal Martin	12	35.2/9.7	NIRCam/Imaging NIRSpec/MOS	GO
1657	Anchoring z>6 Galaxy Metallicities Using T_e and n_e Diagnostics Enabled by JWST and ALMA Spectroscopy	PI: Yuichi Harikane Co-PI: Ryan Sanders	12	23.7	NIRSpec/IFU MIRI/MRS NIRCam/Imaging	GO
1671	Emission Line Galaxies Beyond the Limits of the Hubble UDF: Physical Conditions in Ultra-faint Star Forming Galaxies	PI: Michael Maseda	12	23.9	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
1701	Dissecting the Prototypical Starbursts NGC 253 and M 82 and Their Cool Galactic Winds	PI: Alberto Bolatto	12	42.8	MIRI/Imaging MIRI/MRS NIRCam/Imaging	GO
1712	JWST Beholds the Multiple-merger Assembly of the Most Luminous Quasar	PI: Tanio Diaz-Santos	12	23.3	MIRI/MRS NIRSpec/IFU	GO
1721	Probing the Interstellar Medium of Galaxies in the Early Universe	PI: Jeyhan Kartaltepe				AR
1740	H-drop Galaxies: "Rosetta Stones'' at z~13 for Galaxy Formation Studies	PI: Yuichi Harikane	12	6.6	NIRSpec/FS	GO
1747	Linking Bright Galaxy Properties to IGM Opacity and Environment in the Early Epoch of Reionization with NIRSpec	PI: Guido Roberts-Borsani	6	25.1	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
1758	Confirming a Potential Ultra-Massive Galaxy at z=10.57	PI: Steven Finkelstein	12	2.6	NIRSpec/FS	GO
1762	Halfway to the Peak: A Bridge Program To Map Coeval Star Formation and Supermassive Black Hole Growth	PI: Alexandra Pope Co-PIs: Anna Sajina and Lin Yan	12	24.6	MIRI/MRS	GO
1783	JWST probes Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers: JWST-FEAST	PI: Angela Adamo	12	45	NIRCam/Imaging MIRI/Imaging	GO
1791	The Early Assembly History of the Most Massive Halo in the Reionization Era	PI: Justin Spilker	12	6.1	NIRCam/Imaging MIRI/Imaging	GO
1810	The Stellar and Gas Content of Galaxies at Cosmic Noon	PI: Sirio Belli	12	46/35.7	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
1827	NIRSpec Integral Field Spectroscopy of LyC-Leaking Galaxies	PI: Koki Kakiichi	12	24.1	NIRSpec/IFU	GO
1837	PRIMER: Public Release IMaging for Extragalactic Research	PI: James Dunlop	0	187.2/94.97	MIRI/Imaging	GO, Treasury
1840	ALMA [OIII]88um Emitters. Signpost of Early Stellar Buildup and Reionization in the Universe	PI: Javier Alvarez-Marquez Co-PI: Takuya Hashimoto	12	33.9	NIRSpec/IFU NIRCam/Imaging	GO
1864	The Formation of a Primeval Hyperstarburst Galaxy at z~6	PI: Kedar Phadke	12	18.9	NIRCam/Imaging MIRI/Imaging NIRSpec/IFU MIRI/MRS	GO
1865	Witnessing the Circumgalactic Medium in Formation: The Warm Dust and Molecular Gas in a Record-Breaking Galactic Wind	PI: Sylvain Veilleux	12	8.3	MIRI/Imaging NIRCam/Imaging	GO
1869	LyC22 - Deep Spectroscopic Insights on Star-forming Galaxies 2.2 Gyr after the Big Bang	PI: Daniel Schaerer	12	73.5	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
1879	Opening the Era of Direct Metallicity Measurements in High Redshift Galaxies	PI: Mirko Curti	12	54.2	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
1883	A Modern Theory for Strong Line Metallicity Indicators in the Era of JWST	PI: Desika Narayanan				AR
1893	Galaxy Assembly at z > 6: Unraveling the Origin of the Spatial Offset between the UV and FIR Emission	PI: Stefano Carniani	12	21.3	NIRSpec/IFU	GO
1895	FRESCO: The First Reionization Epoch Spectroscopic COmplete Survey	PI: Pascal Oesch	0	53.1	NIRCam/WFSS	GO
1914	The AURORA Survey: First Direct Metallicity Calibrations at High Redshift	PI: Alice Shapley Co-PI: Ryan Sanders	12	63.8	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
1933	Anatomy of an Ionized Bubble at z=6.6: Which Galaxies Reionized the Universe?	PI: Jorryt Matthee Co-PI: Rohan Naidu	12	18.2	NIRCam/WFSS	GO
1963	UDF Medium Band Survey: Using H-alpha Emission To Reconstruct Ly-alpha Escape during the Epoch of Reionization	PI: Christina Williams Co-PIs: Michael Maseda and Sandro Tacchella	0	20.4/15.5	NIRCam/Imaging	GO
1991	Lifting the Veil on the Most Obscured Galaxies in the Universe	PI: George Privon	12	8.5	MIRI/MRS NIRSpec/IFU	GO
2079	The Webb Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (WDEEP) Survey: Feedback in Low-Mass Galaxies from Cosmic Dawn to Dusk	PI: Steven Finkelstein Co-PIs: Casey Papovich and Norbert Pirzkal	0	121.7/96.4	NIRISS/WFSS	GO, Treasury
2110	Ultra-deep Continuum Spectroscopy of Quiescent Galaxies at 1.0<z<2.5: Chemical Abundances and Stellar Kinematics	PI: Mariska Kriek Co-PI: Aliza Beverage	0	22.9	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2123	A Pathfinder for JWST Spectroscopy: Deep High Spectral Resolution Maps of Galaxies over 1<z<6	PI: Susan Kassin	0	74.3	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2130	Embedded Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: The Advent of Parsec Scale Studies beyond the Magellanic Clouds	PI: Janice Lee	0	27.9	MIRI/Imaging NIRCam/Imaging	GO
2136	The Emergence of the Modern Hubble Sequence Revealed by JWST Slit-stepping	PI: Tucker Jones	0	31.7	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2162	Does Turbulence Suppress Star Formation in AGN hosts?	PI: Nicole Nesvadba	12	4.3	NIRSpec/IFU MIRI/MRS	GO
2186	NIRSpec IFU Spectroscopy of the High-density Starburst in Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies	PI: Shunsuke Baba	12	6.7	NIRSpec/IFU	GO
2198	Quiescent or Dusty? Unveiling the Nature of Extremely Red Galaxies at z>3	PI: Laia Barrufet Co-PI: Pascal Oesch	12	9.8	NIRCam/Imaging NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2219	Shining Light on the CO-dark H2 Gas in the Heart of M83	PI: Svea Hernandez	12	14.8	MIRI/MRS	GO
2234	The JWST-legacy Narrow-band Survey of H-alpha and [OIII] Emitters in the Epoch of Reionization	PI: Eduardo Banados	12	17.8	NIRCam/Imaging	GO
2279	Where Cosmic Dawn Breaks First: Mapping the Primordial Overdensity Powering a z~9 Ionized Bubble	PI: Rohan Naidu	12	7.1	NIRCam/WFSS	GO
2282	A Strongly Magnified Individual Star and Parsec-Scale Clusters Observed in the First Billion Years at z = 6	PI: Dan Coe	0	13.9	NIRCam/Imaging NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2285	A Massive Quiescent Galaxy at Redshift 4.657	PI: Adam Carnall	12	8	NIRSpec/FS	GO
2301	Unearthing the Fossilized Andromeda Galaxy: A Spectroscopic Pilot Survey of M31 Giants	PI: John Mackereth	12	12.1	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2321	The First Blind H-alpha Narrow-band Survey of Star-formation at z>6	PI: Philip Best	12	40.5	NIRCam/Imaging	GO
2344	Mapping Emission and Absorption Line Metallicities onto the Same Univeral Scale	PI: Patricia Schady Co-PI: Nial Tanvir	12	24.9	NIRSpec/FS	GO
2345	Resolved Studies of a Unique Lensed Quiescent Galaxy at z=2: Testing Models of Assembly History, Quenching, and IMF Variations	PI: Andrew Newman	12	13.7	NIRSpec/IFU NIRCam/Imaging	GO
2354	Preventing the Slit-Loss Catastrophe Using Flexible, Spatially Resolved Galaxy Models	PI: Joel Leja				AR
2362	Dawn of the Monsters: JWST Characterization of Extremely Massive Galaxies at z~5	PI: Cemile Marsan Co-PI: Adam Muzzin	12	8.6	NIRSpec/FS NIRCam/Imaging	GO
2368	What Lies Beneath: Understanding the Hidden Engines Driving Extreme Outflows and Galaxy Quenching	PI: Christy Tremonti	12	19.8	MIRI/MRS	GO
2391	The Resolved Properties of PAHs at Low Metallicity	PI: Julia Roman-Duval	12	67.3	MIRI/Imaging NIRCam/Imaging	GO
2410	How Efficiently Do Galaxies Produce Ionizing Photons in the Epoch of Reionization?	PI: Ramesh Mainali				AR
2417	Physical Characterization of a Massive Galaxy Protocluster ~1 Billion Years after the Big Bang	PI: Dominik Riechers	12	11	NIRCam/Imaging MIRI/Imaging NIRSpec/IFU NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2424	Revealing the Ionizing Spectrum of Low-Metallicity Galaxies with MIRI	PI: Anne Jaskot	12	24.5	MIRI/MRS	GO
2426	Spectroscopic Confirmation and Characterization of Bright Galaxies at z~9	PI: Micaela Bagley Co-PI: Sofia Rojas	12	18.1	NIRSpec/FS	GO
2439	Resolving the Cooling Flow at the Center of the Phoenix Cluster	PI: Michael McDonald	12	14.2	MIRI/MRS	GO
2452	The Vanishing Act: PAHs and Heavy Element Abundance in M101	PI: JD Smith	12	7	NIRCam/Imaging	GO
2457	Extreme Quasar Feedback at the Peak of the Galaxy Formation Epoch	PI: Andrey Vayner	12	20.9	NIRSpec/IFU	GO
2478	Spectroscopy of Dwarf Galaxies in the Reionization Era: Ionizing Sources and Gas Conditions at Very Low Metallicity	PI: Daniel Stark	12	10	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2484	JWST Probes Star Formation Efficiency in Giant Molecular Clouds at z=1	PI: Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky Co-PI: Johan Richard	12	8.7	NIRSpec/IFU	GO
2511	How Do the Small Survive: PAH’s in Low Metallicity Starburst II Zw 40	PI: Thomas Lai Co-PIs: JD Smith, Adolf Witt, Aditya Togi, Brandon Hensley, and others*	12	4.2	NIRSpec/IFU MIRI/MRS	GO
2514	PANORAMIC – A Pure Parallel Wide Area Legacy Imaging Survey at 1-5 Micron	PI: Christina Williams Co-PI: Pascal Oesch	0	0/150	NIRCam/Imaging	GO, Pure Parallel
2516	Revealing the Hidden Stellar Emission in the Highest-fidelity ALMA-mapped Submillimeter Galaxies	PI: Jacqueline Hodge Co-PI: Elisabete da Cunha	12	14.3	NIRCam/Imaging MIRI/Imaging	GO
2555	How Do Ionizing Photons Escape the Sunburst Arc?	PI: T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen	12	24.2	NIRSpec/IFU NIRCam/Imaging	GO
2561	UNCOVER: Ultra-deep NIRCam and NIRSpec Observations Before the Epoch of Reionization	PI: Ivo Labbe Co-PI: Rachel Bezanson	0	68.2/50.2	NIRCam/Imaging NIRSpec/MOS	GO, Treasury
2565	How Many Quiescent Galaxies Are There at 3<z<4 Really?	PI: Karl Glazebrook Co-PI: Themiya Nanayakkara	12	14.4	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2566	Characterizing Stellar Mass Assembly and Physical Properties in the Brightest Galaxy in the Redshift>5 Universe	PI: Gourav Khullar	12	19.4	NIRSpec/IFU NIRCam/Imaging	GO
2567	Do Massive Black Holes Come in Small Packages? A Census of Black Holes in Compact Stellar Systems in the Virgo Cluster	PI: Matthew Taylor Co-PI: Patrick Cote	12	41.2	NIRSpec/IFU	GO
2581	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Seeking All the Massive Young Clusters Hidden in the Antennae	PI: Rupali Chandar	12	6	NIRCam/Imaging MIRI/Imaging	GO
2593	CECILIA: A Direct-method Metallicity Calibration for Cosmic Noon through the Epoch of Reionization	PI: Allison Strom Co-PI: Gwen Rudie	12	39.2	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2659	Beasts in the Bubbles: Characterizing ultra-luminous Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn	PI: John Weaver	12	13.6	NIRSpec/IFU	GO
2674	Environmental Effects on Galaxy Evolution in a z=5.2 Proto-cluster	PI: Pablo Arrabal Haro	12	15.2/7.8	NIRSpec/MOS	GO
2687	Leveraging Early Public JWST Data to Measure Luminosity Functions and Rest-UV Slopes from 6<z<12	PI: Micaela Bagley				AR

 

Thank you.

 

Walter.

[walterpthefirst]

More on the JWST.

 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/18/webb-team-brings-18-dots-of-starlight-into-hexagonal-formation/

 

Thank you.

 

Walter.