Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)

We present an overview of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), an ambitious program of infrared imaging and spectroscopy in the GOODS-S and GOODS-N deep fields, designed to study galaxy evolution from high redshift to cosmic noon. JADES uses about $770$ hours of Cycle $1$ guaranteed time largely from the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument teams. In GOODS-S, in and around the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and Chandra Deep Field South, JADES produces a deep imaging region of $\sim 45\ \mathrm{arcmin}^{2}$ with an average of $\sim 130\ \mathrm{hours}$ of exposure time spread over $9$ NIRCam filters. This is extended at medium depth in GOODS-S and GOODS-N with NIRCam imaging of $\sim 175\ \mathrm{arcmin}^{2}$ with an average exposure time of $\sim 20\ \mathrm{hours}$ spread over $8-10$ filters. In both fields, we conduct extensive NIRSpec multi-object spectroscopy, including $2$ deep pointings of $\sim 55\ \mathrm{hours}$ exposure time, $14$ medium pointings of $\sim 12\ \mathrm{hours}$ , and $15$ shallower pointings of $\sim 4\ \mathrm{hours}$ , targeting over $5000$ HST and JWST-detected faint sources with $5$ low, medium, and high-resolution dispersers covering $0.6-5.3\ \mathrm{microns}$ . Finally, JADES extends redward via coordinated parallels with the JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), featuring $\sim 9\ \mathrm{arcmin}^{2}$ with $\sim 43\ \mathrm{hours}$ hours of exposure at $7.7\ \mathrm{microns}$ and twice that area with $2.0-6.5\ \mathrm{hours}$ hours of exposure at $12.8\ \mathrm{microns}$ . For nearly $30$ years, the GOODS-S and GOODS-N fields have been developed as the premier deep fields on the sky; JADES is now providing a compelling start on the JWST legacy in these fields.

eprint arXiv:2306.02465