The next generation deep extragalactic exploratory public (NGDEEP) survey
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2024
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American Astronomical Society
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We present the Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey, a deep slitless spectroscopic and imaging Cycle 1 JWST treasury survey designed to constrain feedback mechanisms in low-mass galaxies across cosmic time. NGDEEP targets the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) with NIRISS slitless spectroscopy ( f lim , line , 5 σ ≈ 1.2 × 10−18 erg s−1 cm−2) to measure metallicities and star formation rates (SFRs) for low-mass galaxies through the peak of the cosmic SFR density (0.5 < z < 4). In parallel, NGDEEP targets the HUDF-Par2 parallel field with NIRCam ( m lim , 5 σ = 30.6 − 30.9 ) to discover galaxies to z > 12, constraining the slope of the faint end of the rest-ultraviolet luminosity function. NGDEEP overlaps with the deepest HST Advanced Camera for Surveys optical imaging in the sky, F435W in the HUDF ( m lim , F 435 W = 29.6 ) and F814W in HUDF-Par2 ( m lim , F 814 W = 30 ), making this a premier HST+JWST deep field. As a treasury survey, NGDEEP data are public immediately, and we will rapidly release data products and catalogs in the spirit of previous deep-field initiatives. In this paper we present the NGDEEP survey design, summarize the science goals, and detail plans for the public release of NGDEEP reduced data products
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), NGDEEP Survey, Slitless Spectroscopy, Low-Mass Galaxies, Cosmic Star Formation Rate (SFR)
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Bagley, M.B., Pirzkal, N., Finkelstein, S.L., Papovich, C., Berg, D.A., Lotz, J.M., Leung, G.C., Ferguson, H.C., Koekemoer, A.M., Dickinson, M. and Kartaltepe, J.S., 2024. The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 965(1), p.L6.