Journal article
JWST Imaging of Earendel, the Extremely Magnified Star at Redshift z = 6.2
B Welch, D Coe, E Zackrisson, SE de Mink, S Ravindranath, J Anderson, G Brammer, L Bradley, J Yoon, P Kelly, JM Diego, R Windhorst, A Zitrin, P Dimauro, Y Jiménez-Teja, undefined Abdurro’uf, M Nonino, A Acebron, F Andrade-Santos, RJ Avila Show all
Astrophysical Journal Letters | Published : 2022
Abstract
The gravitationally lensed star WHL 0137-LS, nicknamed Earendel, was identified with a photometric redshift z phot = 6.2 ± 0.1 based on images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Here we present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Camera images of Earendel in eight filters spanning 0.8-5.0 μm. In these higher-resolution images, Earendel remains a single unresolved point source on the lensing critical curve, increasing the lower limit on the lensing magnification to μ > 4000 and restricting the source plane radius further to r < 0.02 pc, or ∼4000 au. These new observations strengthen the conclusion that Earendel is best explained by an individual star or multiple star system an..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work is based on observations made with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The data were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-03127 for JWST. These observations are associated with program JWST GO 2282.E.Z. acknowledges support from the Swedish National Space Board. M.B. acknowledges support from the Slovenian national research agency ARRS through grant N1-0238. A.Z. acknowledges support by grant No. 2020750 from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) and grant No. 2109066 from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) and by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Israel. M.T. acknowledges support by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) through project No. CE170100013. The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under grant No. 140. J.M.D. acknowledges the support of projects PGC2018-101814-B-100 and MDM-2017-0765. Y.J.-T. acknowledges financial support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 898633, the MSCA IF Extensions Program of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa award to the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709). P.A.O. acknowledges support by the Swiss National Science Foundation through project grant 200020_207349.The data presented in this paper were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The specific observations analyzed can be accessed via 10.17909/2x4w-pd04. Facilities: JWST(NIRCam), HST(WFC3). Software: grizli (Brammer & Matharu 2021), astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013, 2018), photutils (Bradley et al. 2022b), SExtractor (Bertin & Arnouts 1996), EAZY (Brammer et al. 2008).