NIRCam Performance on JWST In Flight

(10) NASA Exoplanet Science Institute/IPAC; (11) Universit\'e de Montr\'eal; (12) The Observatories; (13) Center for Astrophysics; (14) National Research Council Canada; (15) University of Hawaii; (16) The University of Texas at Austin; (17) Jet Propulsion Laboratory; (18) Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics; (19) University of Michigan

arxiv: 2212.12069 · v1 · pith:JGRBSZXBnew · submitted 2022-12-22 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM

NIRCam Performance on JWST In Flight

Marcia J. Rieke (1) , Douglas M. Kelly (1) , Karl Misselt (1) , John Stansberry (2) , Martha Boyer (2) , Thomas Beatty (3) , Eiichi Egami (1) , Michael Florian (1)

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The Near Infrared Camera for the James Webb Space Telescope is delivering the imagery that astronomers have hoped for ever since JWST was proposed back in the 1990s. In the Commissioning Period that extended from right after launch to early July 2022 NIRCam has been subjected to a number of performance tests and operational checks. The camera is exceeding pre-launch expectations in virtually all areas with very few surprises discovered in flight. NIRCam also delivered the imagery needed by the Wavefront Sensing Team for use in aligning the telescope mirror segments (\citealt{Acton_etal2022}, \citealt{McElwain_etal2022}).

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