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Published March 2006 | Version public
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How JWST can measure first light, reionization and galaxy assembly

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  • 1. ROR icon Arizona State University
  • 2. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

We summarize the design and performance of the James Webb Space Telescope that is to be launched to an L2 orbit in 2013, and how it is designed, in particular, to study the epochs of first light, reionization and galaxy assembly.

Additional Information

© 2005 Elsevier B.V. Available online 6 January 2006. The HST work was supported by Grants GO-8645.* and GO-9780.* from STScI, which is operated by AURA for NASA under contract NAS 5-26555. The JWST work was supported from NASA JWST Grant NAG 5-12460. RAW thanks the other members of the JWST Flight Science Working Group, the JWST Instrument Teams, and the JWST hardware teams for their continuous dedicated work on the JWST project. A PDF file of the review presented at the conference is available at: www.physics.uci. edu/Cosmology/#schedule. This paper and other JWST studies are also available as PDF files at: www.asu.edu/ clas/hst/www/jwst/.

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Eprint ID
24698
Resolver ID
CaltechAUTHORS:20110804-152902660

Funding

NASA
GO-8645
NASA
GO-9780
NASA
NAS 5-26555
NASA
NAG5-12460

Dates

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2011-08-04
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2021-11-09
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Caltech Custom Metadata

Series Name
New Astronomy Reviews
Series Volume or Issue Number
1-3