PHANGS-JWST: Data-processing Pipeline and First Full Public Data Release

Thomas G. Williams; Janice C. Lee; Kirsten L. Larson; Adam K. Leroy; Karin Sandstrom; Eva Schinnerer; David A. Thilker; Francesco Belfiore; Oleg V. Egorov; Erik Rosolowsky; Jessica Sutter; Joseph DePasquale; Alyssa Pagan; Travis A. Berger; Gagandeep S. Anand; Ashley T. Barnes; Frank Bigiel; Médéric Boquien; Yixian Cao; Jérémy Chastenet; Mélanie Chevance; Ryan Chown; Daniel A. Dale; Sinan Deger; Cosima Eibensteiner; Eric Emsellem; Christopher M. Faesi; Simon C.O. Glover; Kathryn Grasha; Stephen Hannon; Hamid Hassani; Jonathan D. Henshaw; María J. Jiménez-Donaire; Jaeyeon Kim; Ralf S. Klessen; Eric W. Koch; Jing Li; Daizhong Liu; Sharon E. Meidt; J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado; Eric J. Murphy; Justus Neumann; Lukas Neumann; Nadine Neumayer; Elias K. Oakes; Debosmita Pathak; Jérôme Pety; Francesca Pinna; Miguel Querejeta; Lise Ramambason; Andrea Romanelli; Mattia C. Sormani; Sophia K. Stuber; Jiayi Sun; Yu Hsuan Teng; Antonio Usero; Elizabeth J. Watkins; Tony D. Weinbeck

doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ad4be5

PHANGS-JWST: Data-processing Pipeline and First Full Public Data Release

Thomas G. Williams
, Janice C. Lee
, Kirsten L. Larson
, Adam K. Leroy
, Karin Sandstrom
, Eva Schinnerer
, David A. Thilker
, Francesco Belfiore
, Oleg V. Egorov
, Erik Rosolowsky
, Jessica Sutter
, Joseph DePasquale
, Alyssa Pagan
, Travis A. Berger
, Gagandeep S. Anand
, Ashley T. Barnes
, Frank Bigiel
, Médéric Boquien
, Yixian Cao
, Jérémy Chastenet

Mélanie Chevance, Ryan Chown, Daniel A. Dale, Sinan Deger, Cosima Eibensteiner, Eric Emsellem, Christopher M. Faesi, Simon C.O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Stephen Hannon, Hamid Hassani, Jonathan D. Henshaw, María J. Jiménez-Donaire, Jaeyeon Kim, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric W. Koch, Jing Li, Daizhong Liu, Sharon E. Meidt, J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, Eric J. Murphy, Justus Neumann, Lukas Neumann, Nadine Neumayer, Elias K. Oakes, Debosmita Pathak, Jérôme Pety, Francesca Pinna, Miguel Querejeta, Lise Ramambason, Andrea Romanelli, Mattia C. Sormani, Sophia K. Stuber, Jiayi Sun, Yu Hsuan Teng, Antonio Usero, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Tony D. Weinbeck

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The exquisite angular resolution and sensitivity of JWST are opening a new window for our understanding of the Universe. In nearby galaxies, JWST observations are revolutionizing our understanding of the first phases of star formation and the dusty interstellar medium. Nineteen local galaxies spanning a range of properties and morphologies across the star-forming main sequence have been observed as part of the PHANGS-JWST Cycle 1 Treasury program at spatial scales of ∼5-50 pc. Here, we describe pjpipe, an image-processing pipeline developed for the PHANGS-JWST program that wraps around and extends the official JWST pipeline. We release this pipeline to the community as it contains a number of tools generally useful for JWST NIRCam and MIRI observations. Particularly for extended sources, pjpipe products provide significant improvements over mosaics from the MAST archive in terms of removing instrumental noise in NIRCam data, background flux matching, and calibration of relative and absolute astrometry. We show that slightly smoothing F2100W MIRI data to 0.″9 (degrading the resolution by about 30%) reduces the noise by a factor of ≈3. We also present the first public release (DR1.1.0) of the pjpipe processed eight-band 2-21 μm imaging for all 19 galaxies in the PHANGS-JWST Cycle 1 Treasury program. An additional 55 galaxies will soon follow from a new PHANGS-JWST Cycle 2 Treasury program.

Original language	English
Article number	13
Journal	Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Volume	273
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ad4be5
State	Published - Jul 1 2024

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© 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

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This work has been carried out as part of the PHANGS collaboration. This work is based on observations made with the NASA/ESA/CSA JWST. The data were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-03127 for JWST. These observations are associated with program 2107. The specific observations analyzed can be accessed via doi:10.17909/ew88-jt15. The authors would like to thank the anonymous referee for the constructive comments, which have improved this work. We also thank M. García Marín for comments on the manuscript. T.G.W. would like to personally thank P. Woolford for technical assistance throughout the preparation of this work, as well as Beryl Williams for everything throughout the years. K.S. and J.S. acknowledge funding from JWST-GO-2107.006-A. R.S.K. and S.C.O.G. acknowledge funding from the European Research Council via the Synergy Grant “ECOGAL” (project ID 855130), from the German Excellence Strategy via the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence (EXC 2181-390900948) “STRUCTURES,” and from the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the project “MAINN” (funding ID 50OO2206). A.K.L., D.P., and R.C. gratefully acknowledge support by grants 1653300 and 2205628 from the National Science Foundation, by award JWST-GO-02107.009-A, JWST-GO-03707.001-A, JWST-GO-04256.001-A, and by a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. M.C. gratefully acknowledges funding from the DFG through an Emmy Noether Research Group (grant No. CH2137/1-1). COOL Research DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization supporting research in astrophysics aimed at uncovering our cosmic origins. J.K. is supported by a Kavli Fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). J.Pe. acknowledges support by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche through the DAOISM grant ANR-21-CE31-0010 and by the Programme National “Physique et Chimie du Milieu Interstellaire” (PCMI) of CNRS/INSU with INC/INP, co-funded by CEA and CNES. O.E. acknowledges funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Research Foundation) in the form of an Emmy Noether Research Group (grant No. KR4598/2-1, PI Kreckel). JDH gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Royal Society (University Research Fellowship; URF/R1/221620). E.S. acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 694343). S.D. is supported by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unionâs Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 101018897 CosmicExplorer).

Funders	Funder number
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
European Space Agency
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
Instituto Nacional del Cáncer
German Research Foundation (DFG) within the German Excellence Strategy
CNRS Programme National Physique Chimie du Milieu Interstellaire
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
Instituto Nacional de Pediatria
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
H2020 European Research Council	855130
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	KR4598/2-1
French Agence Nationale de la Recherche	ANR-21-CE31-0010
German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action	2205628, 1653300, 50OO2206
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung	CH2137/1-1
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	694343
Royal Society of Medicine	URF/R1/221620
European Unionâs Horizon 2020 research and innovation program	101018897
German Excellence Strategy in the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence STRUCTURES	EXC 2181-390900948
Canadian Space Agency	NAS 5-03127
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/V00087X/1

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Williams, T. G., Lee, J. C., Larson, K. L., Leroy, A. K., Sandstrom, K., Schinnerer, E., Thilker, D. A., Belfiore, F., Egorov, O. V., Rosolowsky, E., Sutter, J., DePasquale, J., Pagan, A., Berger, T. A., Anand, G. S., Barnes, A. T., Bigiel, F., Boquien, M., Cao, Y., ... Weinbeck, T. D. (2024). PHANGS-JWST: Data-processing Pipeline and First Full Public Data Release. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, 273(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ad4be5

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