JWST commissioning and first science from a UK perspective

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Venue: Society of Antiquaries of London, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BE

 

The highly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched on 25th December 2021. Now all eyes are turning to the first light observations and the early science data, after the six months of commissioning. JWST is providing unprecedented imaging and spectroscopic observations of the universe at 0.6—28 microns making fundamental changes to how we view the cosmos. JWST will undoubtedly be making new discoveries in most areas of astronomy and astrophysics for many years to come.

UK community engagement with JWST is extremely high – over 40% of proposals in JWST’s first year of operations have at least one UK based investigator! This meeting aims to bring together observers, and developers of data analysis tools and theoretical models and simulations used for interpreting JWST data. The aim is to foster knowledge exchange of this cutting-edge telescope to optimise future science observations, and highlight first results and public datasets during this exciting year of first light. 

Contributed talks in all relevant areas are solicited. It is anticipated that contributed talks will be allocated 15 minutes each, including time for discussion.

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  Timings:

 

      

Time

Talk

Person

University

Length

Topic

 

10:30

Overview

Peter Jakobsen

University of Copenhagen

30 min

  

11:00

JWST observations of nested dust shells around the Wolf Rayet colliding-wind binary WR 140

Peredur Williams

University of Edinburgh

15 min

Stellar

 

11:15

Dust life cycle in NGC6822: a JWST study

Conor Nally

University of Edinburgh

15 min

Stellar

 

11:30

First light

Steve Wilkins

University of Sussex

20 min

First Light

 

11:50

Cluster strong lens modelling for SMACS0723, opportunities and challenges brought by JWST observations for dark matter and the high-z universe.

Guillaume Mahler

Durham University

15 min

First Light

 

12:05

High-z lessons learned in the early days of JWST

Nathan Adams

University of Manchester

15 min

First Light

 

12:20

Physical implications of high [OIII]4363/[OIII]5007

Alex Cameron

University of Oxford

   

12:35

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

30 min

  

13:10

Galaxy assembly

Sandro Tacchella

University of Cambridge

20 min

Galaxy Assembly

 

13:30

A surprising abundance of massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5 in early data from JWST

Adam Carnall

University of Edinburgh

15 min

Galaxy Assembly

 

13:45

First results from the NIRSpec/IFS GTO program

Hannah Übler

University of Cambridge

15 min

Galaxy Assembly

 

14:00

Astrochemistry

Helen Fraser

Open University

20 min

  

14:20

Infrared view of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Dust in Seyfert galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Ismael Garcia-Bernete

University of Oxford

15 min

  

14:35

Connecting the cosmic chemical enrichment as seen through absorption and emission

Patricia Schady

University of Bath

15 min

  

14:50

The Obscured Nucleus of VV 114E with JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy

Fergus Donnan

University of Oxford

15 min

  

15:05

The First Direct Observations of Extrasolar Planets with the JWST Early Release Science Program

Sasha Hinkley

University of Exeter

15 min

Exoplanets

 

15:20

Discussion

Discussion

Discussion

   

15:30

End

End

End

End

  
       

 

 Organisers:

Olivia Jones (UK ATC),

Emma Curtis Lake (Hertfordshire)

Sarah Kendrew (ESA/STScI)

Dan Dicken (UKATC)

Gillian Wright (UKATC)

Tim Rawle (ESA/STScI)

 

Book a Fellows November SDM In Person or Online ticket 

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Venue: Society of Antiquaries of London, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BE