We present an imaging survey of the Spitzer~I star-forming region in NGC 6822
conducted with the NIRCam and MIRI instruments onboard JWST. Located at a
distance of 490 kpc, NGC 6822 is the nearest non-interacting low-metallicity
(∼0.2 Z⊙) dwarf galaxy. It hosts some of the brightest known HII
regions in the local universe, including recently discovered sites of
highly-embedded active star formation. Of these, Spitzer I is the youngest and
most active, and houses 90 color-selected candidate young stellar objects
(YSOs) identified from Spitzer Space Telescope observations. We revisit the YSO
population of Spitzer~I with these new JWST observations. By analyzing
color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) constructed with NIRCam and MIRI data, we
establish color selection criteria and construct spectral energy distributions
(SEDs) to identify candidate YSOs and characterize the full population of young
stars, from the most embedded phase to the more evolved stages. In this way, we
have identified 129 YSOs in Spitzer I. Comparing to previous Spitzer studies of
the NGC 6822 YSO population, we find that the YSOs we identify are fainter and
less massive, indicating that the improved resolution of JWST allows us to
resolve previously blended sources into individual stars.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, to be submitted to ApJ, comments
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