The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performance of the spacecraft, telescope, science instruments, and ground system, with an emphasis on differences from pre-launch expectations. Commissioning has made clear that JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built. Moreover, almost across the board, the science performance of JWST is better than expected; in most cases, JWST will go deeper faster than expected. The telescope and instrument suite have demonstrated the sensitivity, stability, image quality, and spectral range that are necessary to transform our understanding of the cosmos through observations spanning from near-earth asteroids to the most distant galaxies.Comment: 5th version as accepted to PASP; 31 pages, 18 figures; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acb29

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.Comment: Accepted by PASP for the special issue on The James Webb Space Telescope Overview, 29 pages, 4 figure

spacetelescope/stginga: 1.4.0 Release Notes

<p>Also see <code>CHANGES.rst</code>.</p> <h2>What's Changed</h2> <ul> <li>MNT: Replace deprecated dtypes in numpy 1.21 by @pllim in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/219</li> <li>MNT: Do not use enable_deprecations_as_exceptions by @pllim in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/221</li> <li>Fix deprecated scipy import by @pllim in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/222</li> <li>TST: Update workflow versions and use built-in cancel by @pllim in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/223</li> <li>Replace ImageViewCanvas with CanvasView by @ejeschke in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/225</li> <li>use canonical filename of RTD configuration and enable <code>nitpicky</code> mode by @zacharyburnett in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/226</li> <li>Force drawn circle to have a minimum radius of 1 px by @ejeschke in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/228</li> <li>BUG: Like PR 228 but for BackgroundSub by @pllim in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/229</li> <li>remove unsupported <code>system_packages</code> RTD config setting by @zacharyburnett in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/230</li> <li>DOC: Clarify where to find plugins by @pllim in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/232</li> </ul> <h2>New Contributors</h2> <ul> <li>@zacharyburnett made their first contribution in https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/pull/226</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/compare/1.3.0...1.4.0</p&gt

spacetelescope/pysiaf: Update to PRDOPSSOC-063

<p>This release updates the default JWST SIAF used in this package to PRDOPSSOC-063.</p&gt

glue-viz/glue: v1.14.0

<p><!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at main --></p> <h2>What's Changed</h2> <h3>New Features</h3> <ul> <li>Support dynamic components by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2446</li> <li>Add regiondata by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2442</li> </ul> <h3>Bug Fixes</h3> <ul> <li>Render nans as 'bad' in mpl cmaps when mode='colormap' by @bmorris3 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2427</li> <li>Update deprecated call to resize_event in test by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2443</li> <li>Do not use fancy index for subsets over Dask data by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2444</li> <li>Fix bug that caused incompatible subsets to be rendered in some contexts rather than be hidden by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2425</li> <li>Fix compatibility with latest developer version of astropy by @astrofrog in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2450</li> </ul> <h3>Other Changes</h3> <ul> <li>Switch to Sphinx book theme and tidied up Sphinx configuration by @astrofrog in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2436</li> <li>Make tests robust to plugins adding new translators by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2445</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/compare/v1.13.1...v1.14.0</p&gt

glue-viz/glue: v1.14.1

<p><!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at main --></p> <h2>What's Changed</h2> <h3>Bug Fixes</h3> <ul> <li>Fix bug when changing the number of bins on a histogram with modified/deleted data by @astrofrog in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2451</li> </ul> <h3>Documentation</h3> <ul> <li>Fix docs failure related to theme warning by @astrofrog in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2452</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/compare/v1.14.0...v1.14.1</p&gt

glue-viz/glue: v1.16.0

<p><!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at main --></p> <h2>What's Changed</h2> <h3>New Features</h3> <ul> <li>Customizable limits percentile and behavior on updating bins when resetting limits by @astrofrog in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2455</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/compare/v1.15.0...v1.16.0</p&gt

glue-viz/glue: v1.14.0

<p><!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at main --></p> <h2>What's Changed</h2> <h3>New Features</h3> <ul> <li>Support dynamic components by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2446</li> <li>Add regiondata by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2442</li> </ul> <h3>Bug Fixes</h3> <ul> <li>Render nans as 'bad' in mpl cmaps when mode='colormap' by @bmorris3 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2427</li> <li>Update deprecated call to resize_event in test by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2443</li> <li>Do not use fancy index for subsets over Dask data by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2444</li> <li>Fix bug that caused incompatible subsets to be rendered in some contexts rather than be hidden by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2425</li> </ul> <h3>Other Changes</h3> <ul> <li>Switch to Sphinx book theme and tidied up Sphinx configuration by @astrofrog in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2436</li> <li>Make tests robust to plugins adding new translators by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2445</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/compare/v1.13.1...v1.14.0</p&gt

glue-viz/glue: v1.15.0

<p><!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at main --></p> <h2>What's Changed</h2> <h3>New Features</h3> <ul> <li>Support regions in image viewer by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2456</li> <li>Added 'simple' viewers which can be used for testing or simple use cases by @astrofrog in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2458</li> </ul> <h3>Other Changes</h3> <ul> <li>Added giles configuration by @astrofrog in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2460</li> <li>Add visual test for ScatterRegionLayerArtist by @jfoster17 in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2461</li> <li>Ignore all test files in coverage calculation by @astrofrog in https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/pull/2462</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/glue-viz/glue/compare/v1.14.1...v1.15.0</p&gt