sci22007 — Announcement

ESA Hubble/Webb Archives and Simulation Data

6 October 2022

-By Chris Evans-

Alongside the excitement of the first Webb data, the team at ESAC’s Science Data Centre released the European JWST (eJWST) archive. This provides a fast and user-friendly European interface to Webb data, including quick-look search tools by target or proposal ID, and a powerful visual means to search the archive using ESASky search (see image above).

After the unveiling of the first images and spectra on 12 July, the associated raw data and pipeline-reduced products were ingested into the eJWST archive as soon as they were released. Since then, all public data and pipeline products are now regularly updated on eJWST, including those from the Director’s Discretionary Early Release Science (ERS) programmes and from the other image releases (e.g. the Cartwheel Galaxy and 30 Doradus). Users can also download exclusive access data using their tokens for the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) within the eJWST environment. Further details of the initial release and links to the search tools are in the ESDC Newsletter here.

In addition to providing the community with robust new tools to explore JWST data, the ESDC team have also developed a new version of the European HST (eHST) archive which has undergone extensive beta-testing. The new version includes a new interface and preview tools, and integration with ESASky for easy visualisation. This will be released in mid October, and the team would welcome feedback from users in the coming weeks.

Looking ahead to Cycle 2 proposals, if you are considering programmes with NIRSpec’s powerful multi-object spectroscopy mode, let me also draw your attention to simulated deep-field observations from the NIRSpec team, that can be used as a test dataset for the reduction pipeline. Further details are here.

Contacts

Chris Evans
ESA/HST & ESA/JWST Project Scientist
ESA Office, STScI Baltimore, USA
Email: hubblenewseurope@stsci.edu