University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校国家超级计算应用中心);University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);UC San Diego(加州大学圣地亚哥分校);Johns Hopkins University(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学);Steward Observatory, University of Arizona(亚利桑那大学斯图尔德天文台)
Ming-Yang Zhuang, Yue Shen, Junyao Li, Zhiwei Pan, Lei Hu, Adam J. Burgasser, David A. Coulter, Jenny E. Greene, Feige Wang
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This is an arXiv-only document that describes the quick data releases from the NEXUS-JWST program through 2028. This document will be updated regularly to follow the cadenced observations from NEXUS (with a delay of ~2 months after each epoch). Data products are available at https://ariel.astro.illinois.edu/nexus/qdr/. Please send comments and suggestions to M. Zhuang and Y. Shen
NEXUS is a JWST Multi-Cycle (Cycles 3-5) GO Treasury imaging and spectroscopic survey around the North Ecliptic Pole during 2024-2028. It contains two overlapping tiers in depth and area coverage. The Wide tier ($\sim 400~{\rm arcmin}^2$) performs NIRCam/WFSS 2.4-5 $μ$m grism spectroscopy with three annual epochs over 3 years (final spectral continuum ${\rm S/N/pixel>3}$ at F444W $<22.2$), accompanied by NIRCam multi-band imaging in F090W, F115W, F150W, F200W, F356W and F444W. The Deep tier ($\sim 50~{\rm arcmin}^2$) performs high-multiplexing NIRSpec 0.54-5.5 $μ$m MOS/PRISM spectroscopy for ~10,000 targets in total, over 18 epochs with a 2-month cadence, along with F200W+F444W NIRCam imaging for each epoch. Parallel imaging observations with MIRI and additional NIRCam filters are also performed within the Wide and Deep tiers. The primary data covering the Deep tier (including NIRCam imaging, NIRSpec/MSA spectra, and vetted MSA spectroscopic redshifts) are released in regular Quick Data Releases to facilitate follow-up studies. This evolving document describes the MSA targeting information and observing status for each of the 18 Deep epochs, which started in May 2025 and continue on the regular 2-month cadence. We also describe the content and caveats of the quick release data and report selected cases of diverse scientific interests.
Light curves feature many kinds of variability, including instrumental systematics, intrinsic stellar variability such as pulsations, and flux changes caused by transiting exoplanets or eclipsing binary stars. Detrending is a key pre-planet-search data processing step that aims to remove variability not due to transits. This data release note describes improvements to the Quick-Look Pipeline's detrending algorithm via the inclusion of quaternion data to remove short-timescale systematics. We describe updates to our procedure, intermediate data products outputted by the algorithm, and improveme…
TESS will target the ecliptic plane in Sectors 42 - 46. These sectors overlap with campaigns from the K2 mission, providing a unique opportunity for multi-mission light curve analysis. This data release note describes the combined analysis of K2 and TESS light curves as part of the Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP) procedure, which processes light curves for all targets in TESS Full-Frame Images (FFIs) down to TESS magnitude T = 13.5. We describe updates to our codebase, and the planet transit search, candidate triage, and report generation that are affected by this combined analysis.
The Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP; Huang et al. 2020, Kunimoto et al. 2021 and references therein) searches for transit signals in the multi-sector light curves of several hundreds of thousand stars observed by TESS every 27.4-day sector. The computational expense of the planet search has grown considerably over time, especially as the TESS observing baseline continues to increase in the second Extended Mission. Starting in Sector 59, QLP has switched to a significantly faster GPU-based transit search capable of searching an entire sector in only ~1 day. We describe its implementation and performan…
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q2) -- The Euclid Galactic Bulge Survey
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris(巴黎天体物理学研究所);University of Tasmania(塔斯马尼亚大学);Université de Franche-Comté(弗朗什-孔泰大学);Sorbonne Université(索邦大学);University of Manchester(曼彻斯特大学);Louisiana State University(路易斯安那州立大学);ESAC/ESA(欧洲空间应用与技术中心/欧洲空间局)
Euclid: Quick Data Release (Q1) -- Watching ICM-selected galaxy clusters with Euclid eyes -- prospects of Euclid data in the context of large SZ and X-ray based surveys
We present the first major data release of the largest single key-project in area carried out in open time with the Herschel Space Observatory. The Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) is a survey of 600 deg^2 in five photometric bands - 100, 160, 250, 350 and 500 um - with the PACS and SPIRE cameras. In this paper and a companion paper (Bourne et al. 2016) we present the survey of three fields on the celestial equator, covering a total area of 161.6 deg^2 and previously observed in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) spectroscopic survey. This paper describes the Hersc…
QLP Data Release Notes 004: TESS-Gaia Light Curve Photometry Implementation
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院卡弗里天体物理与空间研究所);Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of California, Irvine(加州大学尔湾分校物理与天文学系)
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): Euclid spectroscopy of quasars. 1. Identification and redshift determination of 3500 bright quasars
Leiden University(莱顿大学);University of Groningen(格罗宁根大学);Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)(宇宙黎明中心(DAWN));INAF-Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna(意大利国家天体物理研究所博洛尼亚天文与空间科学观测站);Università di Firenze(佛罗伦萨大学);University of Trento(特伦托大学);INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri(意大利国家天体物理研究所阿尔切特里天文台);SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research(荷兰空间研究研究所)
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). AstroVink: A vision transformer approach to find strong gravitational lens systems
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Northwestern Switzerland(西北瑞士应用科学艺术大学);University of Portsmouth(朴茨茅斯大学);Oxford University(牛津大学);Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna(博洛尼亚大学);INAF-Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna(博洛尼亚天文物理与空间科学国家研究所);INFN-Sezione di Bologna(意大利国家核物理研究所博洛尼亚分部)
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Searching for giant gravitational arcs in galaxy clusters with mask region-based convolutional neural networks
Università degli Studi di Ferrara(费拉拉大学);INAF-Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna(博洛尼亚天文物理与空间科学研究所);INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte(卡波迪蒙特天文台);Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli", Università degli Studi di Milano(米兰大学阿尔多·蓬特罗利物理系);INFN-Sezione di Bologna(博洛尼亚意大利国家核物理研究所);Instituto de Física de Cantabria(坎塔布里亚物理研究所);INAF-IASF Milano(米兰天文物理与空间科学研究所)
We describe 14 years of public data from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA), an ongoing project that is producing precise measurements of pulse times of arrival from 26 millisecond pulsars using the 64-m Parkes radio telescope with a cadence of approximately three weeks in three observing bands. A comprehensive description of the pulsar observing systems employed at the telescope since 2004 is provided, including the calibration methodology and an analysis of the stability of system components. We attempt to provide full accounting of the reduction from the raw measured Stokes parameters to…