jwst-comets

Tools, tips, tricks for comet observations with JWST. Some may even be useful for asteroids.

• For Exposure Time Calculator tips and a tool for estimating comet brightness, see estimations.
• For Astronomer’s Proposal Tool (APT) tips and a tool for visualizing moving targets in APT, see apt-targets.
• For some tips measuring astrometry with NIRCam, see astrometry.
• To plot the fields of view of JWST data with respect to a moving target position, see instrument-fov.
• For some tips on processing NIRSpec data, see nirspec.
• I tried to do some cube cleaning on MIRI data with mixed results, see cube-cleaning
• To find comets in the MAST Duplicate Observations tool, search with column LEVEL1=comet

References

File naming scheme: https://jwst-pipeline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jwst/data_products/file_naming.html

Data products info: https://jwst-pipeline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jwst/data_products/index.html

Science product info (e.g., FITS extensions): https://jwst-pipeline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jwst/data_products/science_products.html

Calibration files at: https://jwst-crds.stsci.edu/

Updated NIRCam calibration constants, ca. Aug 2022: Boyer et al. 2022 (data behind the figure).

Author: Michael S. P. Kelley