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Updated High-Level Science Products in September include new Hubble maps for the gas giant planets, new SEDs for 11 exoplanet-hosting stars that have guaranteed JWST time, and a number of updates with new TESS light curves and full-frame images.
TESS Sector 66 data validation products have been updated in MAST; any products downloaded prior to 2023-09-06 should be replaced with the latest version.
After six weeks of hard work, twelve interns presented their pieces of art, each inspired by data from MAST. Missed the event? Fortunately, the art has been digitized and is available online!
A new High-Level Science Product added a collection of data that significantly expand the area imaged around all 6 of the galaxy clusters in the Hubble Frontier Fields program. A number of updated collections also added new images from JWST, XMM-Newton X-ray data, and a large number of new light curves from TESS.
New HLSPs this month include two JWST surveys and two HST surveys. Updates were made to several TESS-based HLSPs and the HST-based Reference-Atlases collection.
This month, two new HLSPs were added: a JWST deep imaging survey and a catalog of planetary nebulae. Updates were made to several TESS-based HLSPs.
New High-Level Science Products at MAST include the first two collections based on data from JWST: the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS), and the JWST Advanced Deep Survey (JADES). Updates were also added to several TESS-based collections.
Missed the April 13th Day of Accessibility? You can now watch a YouTube playlist of the recorded sessions.
One new HLSP has been added, a library of UV spectra produced by Hubble's STIS. Four TESS HLSPs have new lightcurves, two of which now have complete collections for TESS Extended Mission 1. An update to REFERENCE-ATLASES includes better IR models for previously poorly constrained G-type stars.
Data from the FIMS-SPEAR mission are now available in MAST. This is the first "Community Contributed" Mission to be added to the Archive.
The MAST Catalogs Guide, a new section in MAST Data Holdings, was published this week. This new release includes the highly-anticipated chapter on the Guide Star Catalog.
The Day of Accessibility will feature talks and activities to engage STEM students and practitioners in making science and technology more inclusive for individuals with disabilities. Registration by April 6th is required for all who wish to attend this public event, whether in-person or virtually.
The names of the JWST science instruments, as viewed in MAST, have been supplemented with configuration information. This enables users to create more precise queries in different MAST services.
New High-Level Sciece Products at MAST include a study of Lyman-⍺ equivalent width distribution within the GOODS-N and GOODS-S fields, a reverberation mapping experimentation of a Seyfert 1 galaxy, as well as updates to several TESS-based collections, and the ULLYSES UV legacy survey.
Full-frame images produced by the TESS Image CAlibrator (TICA) are now available in the TESSCut cutout service, bringing earlier access to the latest TESS pixel data for users of this MAST service. This update includes integration in both the browser-based interface tool, and the astroquery.mast Python library.
