PDRs4All: A JWST Early Release Science Program on Radiative Feedback from Massive Stars
Journal article, 2022
Massive stars disrupt their natal molecular cloud material through radiative and mechanical feedback processes. These processes have profound effects on the evolution of interstellar matter in our Galaxy and throughout the universe, from the era of vigorous star formation at redshifts of 1-3 to the present day. The dominant feedback processes can be probed by observations of the Photo-Dissociation Regions (PDRs) where the far-ultraviolet photons of massive stars create warm regions of gas and dust in the neutral atomic and molecular gas. PDR emission provides a unique tool to study in detail the physical and chemical processes that are relevant for most of the mass in inter- and circumstellar media including diffuse clouds, proto-planetary disks, and molecular cloud surfaces, globules, planetary nebulae, and star-forming regions. PDR emission dominates the infrared (IR) spectra of star-forming galaxies. Most of the Galactic and extragalactic observations obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will therefore arise in PDR emission. In this paper we present an Early Release Science program using the MIRI, NIRSpec, and NIRCam instruments dedicated to the observations of an emblematic and nearby PDR: the Orion Bar. These early JWST observations will provide template data sets designed to identify key PDR characteristics in JWST observations. These data will serve to benchmark PDR models and extend them into the JWST era. We also present the Science-Enabling products that we will provide to the community. These template data sets and Science-Enabling products will guide the preparation of future proposals on star-forming regions in our Galaxy and beyond and will facilitate data analysis and interpretation of forthcoming JWST observations.
Author
Olivier Berne
University of Toulouse
Emilie Habart
University Paris-Saclay
Els Peeters
Western University
SETI Institute
Alain Abergel
University Paris-Saclay
Edwin A. Bergin
University of Michigan
Jeronimo Bernard-Salas
Innovative Common Laboratory For Space Spectroscopy (INCLASS)
CERGA (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche de Grasse ACRI)
Emeric Bron
Université Paris PSL
Jan Cami
Western University
SETI Institute
Emmanuel Dartois
University Paris-Saclay
Asuncion Fuente
Yebes Observatory
Javier R. Goicoechea
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Karl D. Gordon
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Ghent university
Yoko Okada
University of Cologne
Takashi Onaka
University of Tokyo
Meisei University
Massimo Robberto
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Johns Hopkins University
Markus Rollig
University of Cologne
Alexander G. G. M. Tielens
Leiden University
University of Maryland
Silvia Vicente
Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA)
Mark G. Wolfire
University of Maryland
Felipe Alarcon
University of Michigan
C. Boersma
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Amelie Canin
University of Toulouse
Ryan Chown
Western University
Daniel Dicken
University Paris-Saclay
David Languignon
Université Paris PSL
Romane Le Gal
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
University of Toulouse
Grenoble Alpes University
Marc W. Pound
University of Maryland
Boris Trahin
University Paris-Saclay
Thomas Simmer
University Paris-Saclay
Ameek Sidhu
Western University
Dries Van de Putte
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Sara Cuadrado
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Claire Guilloteau
ENSEEIHT Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electrotechnique, d'Electronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications
University of Toulouse
Alexandros Maragkoudakis
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Bethany R. Schefter
Western University
Thiébaut-Antoine Schirmer
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics
Stephanie Cazaux
Delft University of Technology
Isabel Aleman
Federal University of Itajubá
Louis Allamandola
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAER)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Rebecca Auchettl
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Giuseppe Antonio Baratta
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Salma Bejaoui
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Partha P. Bera
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAER)
Goranka Bilalbegovic
University of Zagreb
John H Black
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics
Francois Boulanger
Paris Descartes University
Jordy Bouwman
University of Colorado at Boulder
Bernhard Brandl
Delft University of Technology
Leiden University
Philippe Brechignac
University Paris-Saclay
Sandra Brunken
Radboud University
Andrew Burkhardt
Wellesley College
Alessandra Candian
Delft University of Technology
Leiden University
Jose Cernicharo
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Marin Chabot
University Paris-Saclay
Shubhadip Chakraborty
University of Rennes 1
Jason Champion
University of Toulouse
Sean W. J. Colgan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Ilsa R. Cooke
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Audrey Coutens
University of Toulouse
Nick L. J. Cox
ACRI-ST
Karine Demyk
University of Toulouse
Jennifer Donovan Meyer
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Cecile Engrand
University Paris-Saclay
Sacha Foschino
University of Toulouse
Pedro Garcia-Lario
European Space Agency (ESA)
Lisseth Gavilan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Maryvonne Gerin
Sorbonne University
Marie Godard
University Paris-Saclay
Carl A. Gottlieb
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Pierre Guillard
Institut Universitaire de France
Sorbonne University
Antoine Gusdorf
Paris Descartes University
Sorbonne University
Patrick Hartigan
Rice University
Jinhua He
Chinese Academy of Sciences
University of Chile (UCH)
Eric Herbst
University of Virginia
Liv Hornekaer
Aarhus University
Cornelia Jaeger
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Eduardo Janot-Pacheco
University of Sao Paulo (USP)
Christine Joblin
University of Toulouse
Michael Kaufman
San Jose State University
Francisca Kemper
European Southern Observatory Santiago
Academia Sinica
Sarah Kendrew
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Maria S. Kirsanova
Russian Academy of Sciences
Pamela Klaassen
Royal Observatory
Collin Knight
Western University
Sun Kwok
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Alvaro Labiano
European Space Agency (ESA)
Thomas S-Y Lai
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Timothy J. Lee
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Bertrand Lefloch
Grenoble Alpes University
Franck Le Petit
Université Paris PSL
Aigen Li
University of Missouri
Hendrik Linz
Max Planck Society
Cameron J. Mackie
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California at Berkeley
Suzanne C. Madden
University Paris-Saclay
Joelle Mascetti
University of Bordeaux
Brett A. McGuire
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Pablo Merino
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Elisabetta R. Micelotta
University of Helsinki
Karl Misselt
University of Arizona
Jon A. Morse
BoldlyGo Institute
Giacomo Mulas
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
University of Toulouse
Naslim Neelamkodan
National Institutes of Natural Sciences
United Arab Emirates University
Ryou Ohsawa
University of Tokyo
Alain Omont
Sorbonne University
Roberta Paladini
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Maria Elisabetta Palumbo
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Amit Pathak
Banaras Hindu University
Yvonne J. Pendleton
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Annemieke Petrignani
University of Amsterdam
Thomas Pino
University Paris-Saclay
Elena Puga
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Naseem Rangwala
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Mathias Rapacioli
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
University of Toulouse
Alessandra Ricca
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
SETI Institute
Julia Roman-Duval
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Joseph Roser
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
SETI Institute
Evelyne Roueff
Université Paris PSL
Gael Rouille
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Farid Salama
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Dinalva A. Sales
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Karin Sandstrom
University of California at San Diego (UCSD)
Peter Sarre
University of Nottingham
Ella Sciamma-O'Brien
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Kris Sellgren
Ohio State University
Matthew J. Shannon
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Sachindev S. Shenoy
Space Science Institute
David Teyssier
European Space Agency (ESA)
Richard D. Thomas
Stockholm University
Aditya Togi
Texas State University
Laurent Verstraete
University Paris-Saclay
Adolf N. Witt
University of Toledo
Alwyn Wootten
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Nathalie Ysard
University Paris-Saclay
Henning Zettergren
Stockholm University
Yong Zhang
Sun Yat-Sen University
Ziwei E. Zhang
RIKEN
Junfeng Zhen
University of Science and Technology of China
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
0004-6280 (ISSN) 1538-3873 (eISSN)
Vol. 134 1035 054301Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
DOI
10.1088/1538-3873/ac604c