Abstract
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) presents the opportunity to transform our understanding of planets and the origins of life by revealing the atmospheric compositions, structures, and dynamics of transiting exoplanets in unprecedented detail. However, the high-precision, timeseries observations required for such investigations have unique technical challenges, and prior experience with Hubble, Spitzer, and other facilities indicates that there will be a steep learning curve when JWST becomes operational. In this paper, we describe the science objectives and detailed plans of the Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science (ERS) Program, which is a recently approved program for JWST observations early in Cycle 1. We also describe the simulations used to establish the program. The goal of this project, for which the obtained data will have no exclusive access period, is to accelerate the acquisition and diffusion of technical expertise for transiting exoplanet observations with JWST, while also providing a compelling set of representative data sets that will enable immediate scientific breakthroughs. The Transiting Exoplanet Community ERS Program will exercise the timeseries modes of all four JWST instruments that have been identified as the consensus highest priorities, observe the full suite of transiting planet characterization geometries (transits, eclipses, and phase curves), and target planets with host stars that span an illustrative range of brightnesses. The observations in this program were defined through an inclusive and transparent process that had participation from JWST instrument experts and international leaders in transiting exoplanet studies. The targets have been vetted with previous measurements, will be observable early in the mission, and have exceptional scientific merit. Community engagement in the project will be centered on a twophase Data Challenge that culminates with the delivery of planetary spectra, timeseries instrument performance reports, and open-source data analysis toolkits in time to inform the agenda for Cycle 2 of the JWST mission.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 114402 |
| Journal | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
| Volume | 130 |
| Issue number | 993 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2018 |
Keywords
- Methods: Observational
- Planets and satellites: Atmospheres
- Planets and satellites: Individual
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Space and Planetary Science
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The transiting exoplanet community early release science program for JWST. / Bean, Jacob L.; Stevenson, Kevin B.; Batalha, Natalie M.; Berta-Thompson, Zachory; Kreidberg, Laura; Crouzet, Nicolas; Benneke, Björn; Line, Michael; Sing, David K.; Wakeford, Hannah R.; Knutson, Heather A.; Kempton, Eliza M.R.; Désert, Jean Michel; Crossfield, Ian; Batalha, Natasha E.; de Wit, Julien; Parmentier, Vivien; Harrington, Joseph; Moses, Julianne I.; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Alam, Munazza K.; Blecic, Jasmina; Bruno, Giovanni; Carter, Aarynn L.; Chapman, John W.; Decin, Leen; Dragomir, Diana; Evans, Thomas M.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Fraine, Jonathan D.; Gao, Peter; Muñoz, Antonio García; Gibson, Neale P.; Goyal, Jayesh M.; Heng, Kevin; Hu, Renyu; Kendrew, Sarah; Kilpatrick, Brian M.; Krick, Jessica; Lagage, Pierre Olivier; Lendl, Monika; Louden, Tom; Madhusudhan, Nikku; Mandell, Avi M.; Mansfield, Megan; May, Erin M.; Morello, Giuseppe; Morley, Caroline V.; Nikolov, Nikolay; Redfield, Seth; Roberts, Jessica E.; Schlawin, Everett; Spake, Jessica J.; Todorov, Kamen O.; Tsiaras, Angelos; Venot, Olivia; Waalkes, William C.; Wheatley, Peter J.; Zellem, Robert T.; Angerhausen, Daniel; Barrado, David; Carone, Ludmila; Casewell, Sarah L.; Cubillos, Patricio E.; Damiano, Mario; Borro, Miguel De Val; Drummond, Benjamin; Edwards, Billy; Endl, Michael; Espinoza, Nestor; France, Kevin; Gizis, John E.; Greene, Thomas P.; Henning, Thomas K.; Hong, Yucian; Ingalls, James G.; Iro, Nicolas; Irwin, Patrick G.J.; Kataria, Tiffany; Lahuis, Fred; Leconte, Jérémy; Lillo-Box, Jorge; Lines, Stefan; Lothringer, Joshua D.; Mancini, Luigi; Marchis, Franck; Mayne, Nathan; Palle, Enric; Rauscher, Emily; Roudier, Gaël; Shkolnik, Evgenya; Southworth, John; Swain, Mark R.; Taylor, Jake; Teske, Johanna; Tinetti, Giovanna; Tremblin, Pascal; Tucker, Gregory S.; Boekel, Roy Van; Waldmann, Ingo P.; Weaver, Ian C.; Zingales, Tiziano.
In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 130, No. 993, 114402, 11.2018.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - The transiting exoplanet community early release science program for JWST
AU - Bean, Jacob L.
AU - Stevenson, Kevin B.
AU - Batalha, Natalie M.
AU - Berta-Thompson, Zachory
AU - Kreidberg, Laura
AU - Crouzet, Nicolas
AU - Benneke, Björn
AU - Line, Michael
AU - Sing, David K.
AU - Wakeford, Hannah R.
AU - Knutson, Heather A.
AU - Kempton, Eliza M.R.
AU - Désert, Jean Michel
AU - Crossfield, Ian
AU - Batalha, Natasha E.
AU - de Wit, Julien
AU - Parmentier, Vivien
AU - Harrington, Joseph
AU - Moses, Julianne I.
AU - Lopez-Morales, Mercedes
AU - Alam, Munazza K.
AU - Blecic, Jasmina
AU - Bruno, Giovanni
AU - Carter, Aarynn L.
AU - Chapman, John W.
AU - Decin, Leen
AU - Dragomir, Diana
AU - Evans, Thomas M.
AU - Fortney, Jonathan J.
AU - Fraine, Jonathan D.
AU - Gao, Peter
AU - Muñoz, Antonio García
AU - Gibson, Neale P.
AU - Goyal, Jayesh M.
AU - Heng, Kevin
AU - Hu, Renyu
AU - Kendrew, Sarah
AU - Kilpatrick, Brian M.
AU - Krick, Jessica
AU - Lagage, Pierre Olivier
AU - Lendl, Monika
AU - Louden, Tom
AU - Madhusudhan, Nikku
AU - Mandell, Avi M.
AU - Mansfield, Megan
AU - May, Erin M.
AU - Morello, Giuseppe
AU - Morley, Caroline V.
AU - Nikolov, Nikolay
AU - Redfield, Seth
AU - Roberts, Jessica E.
AU - Schlawin, Everett
AU - Spake, Jessica J.
AU - Todorov, Kamen O.
AU - Tsiaras, Angelos
AU - Venot, Olivia
AU - Waalkes, William C.
AU - Wheatley, Peter J.
AU - Zellem, Robert T.
AU - Angerhausen, Daniel
AU - Barrado, David
AU - Carone, Ludmila
AU - Casewell, Sarah L.
AU - Cubillos, Patricio E.
AU - Damiano, Mario
AU - Borro, Miguel De Val
AU - Drummond, Benjamin
AU - Edwards, Billy
AU - Endl, Michael
AU - Espinoza, Nestor
AU - France, Kevin
AU - Gizis, John E.
AU - Greene, Thomas P.
AU - Henning, Thomas K.
AU - Hong, Yucian
AU - Ingalls, James G.
AU - Iro, Nicolas
AU - Irwin, Patrick G.J.
AU - Kataria, Tiffany
AU - Lahuis, Fred
AU - Leconte, Jérémy
AU - Lillo-Box, Jorge
AU - Lines, Stefan
AU - Lothringer, Joshua D.
AU - Mancini, Luigi
AU - Marchis, Franck
AU - Mayne, Nathan
AU - Palle, Enric
AU - Rauscher, Emily
AU - Roudier, Gaël
AU - Shkolnik, Evgenya
AU - Southworth, John
AU - Swain, Mark R.
AU - Taylor, Jake
AU - Teske, Johanna
AU - Tinetti, Giovanna
AU - Tremblin, Pascal
AU - Tucker, Gregory S.
AU - Boekel, Roy Van
AU - Waldmann, Ingo P.
AU - Weaver, Ian C.
AU - Zingales, Tiziano
N1 - Funding Information: 1Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; jbean@astro.uchicago.edu 2Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA 3NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 244-30, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA 4Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA 5Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 6Harvard Society of Fellows, 78 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 7Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C. Vía Láctea s/n, E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain 8Universidad de La Laguna, Dept. de Astrofísica, E-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain 9Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montreal, H3T 1J4, Canada 10School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, PO Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA 11Physics and Astronomy, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK 12Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 13Department of Physics, Grinnell College, 1116 8th Avenue, Grinnell, IA 50112, USA 14Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 15Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands 16Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 37-241, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 17Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 18Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LAM, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France 19Planetary Sciences Group, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816-2385, USA 20Space Science Institute, 4750 Walnut St, Suite 205, Boulder, CO 80301, USA 21New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE 22Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA 23Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium 24Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 25Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 26Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Technische Universität Berlin, D-10623 Berlin, Germany 27Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queens University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK 28University of Bern, Center for Space and Habitability, Gesellschaftsstraβe 6, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland 29European Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218, USA 30Department of Physics, Box 1843, Brown University, Providence, RI 02904, USA 31IPAC, MC314-6, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 32Irfu, CEA, Universit Paris-Sacaly, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France 33Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstraβe 6, A-8042, Graz, Austria 34Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK 35Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK 36Solar System Exploration Division, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA 37Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 38Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 1085 S. University, 311 West Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 39Astronomy Department and Van Vleck Observatory, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA 40Steward Observatory, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA 41Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK 42Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC) et Université Paris Diderot (UPD), Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Créteil, France 43Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern, Gesellschaftsstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland 44Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, 1001 4th Avenue, Suite 3201, Seattle, Washington 98154, USA 45Depto. Astroísica, Centro de Astrobioloía (CSIC-INTA), ESAC campus, Camino Bajo del Castillo s/n, 28692, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain 46Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany 47Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK 48INAFOsservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, I-90134 Palermo, Italy 49NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA 50Department of Physics, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA 51McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USA 52Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, 600 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA 53Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716, USA 54NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science and Astrobiology Division, MS 245-6, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA 55Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Space Sciences Building, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA 56IPAC, Mail Code 314-6, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 57Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Tuerkenschanzstraβe 17, A-1180 Wien, Austria 58Department of Physics (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics), University of Oxford, Parks Rd, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK 59SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands 60Laboratoire dastrophysique de Bordeaux, Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, B18N, allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 33615 Pessac, France 61European Southern Observatory, Avda. Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago 19, Chile 62Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA 63Department of Physics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133, Rome, Italy 64INAF—Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, via Osservatorio 20, I-10025, Pino Torinese, Italy 65SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA 66Astrophysics Group, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK 67Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015-1305, USA 68Maison de la Simulation, CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, UVSQ, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France Publisher Copyright: © 2018. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) presents the opportunity to transform our understanding of planets and the origins of life by revealing the atmospheric compositions, structures, and dynamics of transiting exoplanets in unprecedented detail. However, the high-precision, timeseries observations required for such investigations have unique technical challenges, and prior experience with Hubble, Spitzer, and other facilities indicates that there will be a steep learning curve when JWST becomes operational. In this paper, we describe the science objectives and detailed plans of the Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science (ERS) Program, which is a recently approved program for JWST observations early in Cycle 1. We also describe the simulations used to establish the program. The goal of this project, for which the obtained data will have no exclusive access period, is to accelerate the acquisition and diffusion of technical expertise for transiting exoplanet observations with JWST, while also providing a compelling set of representative data sets that will enable immediate scientific breakthroughs. The Transiting Exoplanet Community ERS Program will exercise the timeseries modes of all four JWST instruments that have been identified as the consensus highest priorities, observe the full suite of transiting planet characterization geometries (transits, eclipses, and phase curves), and target planets with host stars that span an illustrative range of brightnesses. The observations in this program were defined through an inclusive and transparent process that had participation from JWST instrument experts and international leaders in transiting exoplanet studies. The targets have been vetted with previous measurements, will be observable early in the mission, and have exceptional scientific merit. Community engagement in the project will be centered on a twophase Data Challenge that culminates with the delivery of planetary spectra, timeseries instrument performance reports, and open-source data analysis toolkits in time to inform the agenda for Cycle 2 of the JWST mission.
AB - The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) presents the opportunity to transform our understanding of planets and the origins of life by revealing the atmospheric compositions, structures, and dynamics of transiting exoplanets in unprecedented detail. However, the high-precision, timeseries observations required for such investigations have unique technical challenges, and prior experience with Hubble, Spitzer, and other facilities indicates that there will be a steep learning curve when JWST becomes operational. In this paper, we describe the science objectives and detailed plans of the Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science (ERS) Program, which is a recently approved program for JWST observations early in Cycle 1. We also describe the simulations used to establish the program. The goal of this project, for which the obtained data will have no exclusive access period, is to accelerate the acquisition and diffusion of technical expertise for transiting exoplanet observations with JWST, while also providing a compelling set of representative data sets that will enable immediate scientific breakthroughs. The Transiting Exoplanet Community ERS Program will exercise the timeseries modes of all four JWST instruments that have been identified as the consensus highest priorities, observe the full suite of transiting planet characterization geometries (transits, eclipses, and phase curves), and target planets with host stars that span an illustrative range of brightnesses. The observations in this program were defined through an inclusive and transparent process that had participation from JWST instrument experts and international leaders in transiting exoplanet studies. The targets have been vetted with previous measurements, will be observable early in the mission, and have exceptional scientific merit. Community engagement in the project will be centered on a twophase Data Challenge that culminates with the delivery of planetary spectra, timeseries instrument performance reports, and open-source data analysis toolkits in time to inform the agenda for Cycle 2 of the JWST mission.
KW - Methods: Observational
KW - Planets and satellites: Atmospheres
KW - Planets and satellites: Individual
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