As a result of continued analysis of calibration observations and improvements in code and algorithms, significant updates to the Imaging and Coronagraphic Imaging flux calibration reference files are now available.
Calibration data reveals a reduced count rate in the long-wavelength filters of the MIRI Imager.
Multiple updates to the MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) pipeline and the associated reference files are now available.
This update reports on a careful study of the impact the measured MIRI MRS decrease count rate has on science data, as well as on the upcoming pipeline mitigation.
Routine performance monitoring has revealed an anomaly in the MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer.
After a thorough investigation, the MIRI MRS mode will gradually return to full science scheduling.
Scientists who are interested in mid-infrared observations with JWST can now use MIRISim to generate their own simulated observations.
The coronagraphic capabilities provided by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will reveal faint structures otherwise hidden by the glare of a bright point source.
The MIRI imager and Medium-Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) can be operated simultaneously, resulting in more accurate construction of the MRS data cube and bonus observations of a nearby field.
This past winter, the JWST Integrated Systems Instrument Module (ISIM) underwent its third and final round of testing in a "Space Environment Simulator'' at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
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The NASA James Webb Space Telescope, developed in partnership with ESA and CSA, is operated by AURA’s Space Telescope Science Institute.