The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will have been in regular science operations for a year at the time of EAS 2023. This special session will include talks on the status and performance of the observatory, information on the European JWST data archive, selected science highlights from the first year, and a look ahead to future proposal cycles.

Programme

As a short community session, the program will include an overview talk on the mission and its status from Chris Evans (ESA/STScI) and features four invited talks.

Invited speakers

• The European archive for JWST and ESASky, enabling JWST data exploration and analysis - Marcos López-Caniego Alcarria (Aurora Technology for ESA)
• Zooming in on luminous quasars with JWST: Early Science Highlights and Data Analysis Tools from the Q3D program - Caroline Bertemes (Heidelberg)
• Lessons learned and some results from the PDRs4All ERS program - Ilane Schroetter (IRAP, Toulouse)
• Resolved imaging of an exoplanet, a brown dwarf and a circumstellar disk: updates from ERS program 1386 - Elisabeth Matthews (MPIA)

Scientific organisers

Stephane Charlot (IAP), Kalliopi Dasyra (Athens), Chris Evans (ESA), Pierre-Olivier Lagage (CEA-Saclay), Roberto Maiolino (Cambridge), Gillian Wright (UKATC), Dominika Wylezalek (Heidelberg)

Banner-image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

Contact

Chris Evans (christopher.evans @ esa.int)