BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. I. Survey Design and Initial Results

We introduce the Bias-free Extragalactic Analysis for Cosmic Origins with NIRCam (BEACON) survey, a JWST Cycle 2 program allocated up to 600 pure-parallel hours of observations. BEACON explores high-latitude areas of the sky with JWST/NIRCam over  ∼100 independent sight lines, totaling ∼0.3 deg ^2 ,...

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Main Authors: Takahiro Morishita, Charlotte A. Mason, Kimi C. Kreilgaard, Michele Trenti, Tommaso Treu, Benedetta Vulcani, Yechi Zhang, Abdurro’uf, Anahita Alavi, Hakim Atek, Yannick Bahé, Maruša Bradač, Larry D. Bradley, Andrew J. Bunker, Dan Coe, James Colbert, Viola Gelli, Matthew J. Hayes, Tucker Jones, Tadayuki Kodama, Nicha Leethochawalit, Zhaoran Liu, Matthew A. Malkan, Vihang Mehta, Benjamin Metha, Andrew B. Newman, Marc Rafelski, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Michael J. Rutkowski, Claudia Scarlata, Massimo Stiavelli, Ryo A. Sutanto, Kosuke Takahashi, Harry I. Teplitz, Xin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adbbdc
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