Welch, Brian and Coe, Dan and Zackrisson, Erik and de Mink, S. E. and Ravindranath, Swara and Anderson, Jay and Brammer, Gabriel and Bradley, Larry and Yoon, Jinmi and Kelly, Patrick and Diego, Jose M. and Windhorst, Rogier and Zitrin, Adi and Dimauro, Paola and Jiménez-Teja, Yolanda and Nonino, Mario and Acebron, Ana and Andrade-Santos, Felipe and Avila, Roberto J. and Bayliss, Matthew B. and Benítez, Alex and Broadhurst, Tom and Bhatawdekar, Rachana and Bradač, Maruša and Caminha, Gabriel B. and Chen, Wenlei and Eldridge, Jan and Farag, Ebraheem and Florian, Michael and Frye, Brenda and Fujimoto, Seiji and Gomez, Sebastian and Henry, Alaina and Hsiao, Tiger Y.-Y and Hutchison, Taylor A. and James, Bethan L. and Joyce, Meridith and Jung, Intae and Khullar, Gourav and Larson, Rebecca L. and Mahler, Guillaume and Mandelker, Nir and McCandliss, Stephan and Morishita, Takahiro and Newshore, Rosa and Norman, Colin and O’Connor, Kyle and Oesch, Pascal A. and Oguri, Masamune and Ouchi, Masami and Postman, Marc and Rigby, Jane R. and Ryan Jr, Russell E. and Sharma, Soniya and Sharon, Keren and Strait, Victoria and Strolger, Louis-Gregory and Timmes, F. X. and Toft, Sune and Trenti, Michele and Vanzella, Eros and Vikaeus, Anton (2022) JWST Imaging of Earendel, the Extremely Magnified Star at Redshift z = 6.2. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 940 (1). Art. No. L1. ISSN 2041-8205. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac9d39. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20221206-901635600.8
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Abstract
The gravitationally lensed star WHL 0137–LS, nicknamed Earendel, was identified with a photometric redshift z_phot = 6.2 ± 0.1 based on images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Here we present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Camera images of Earendel in eight filters spanning 0.8–5.0 μm. In these higher-resolution images, Earendel remains a single unresolved point source on the lensing critical curve, increasing the lower limit on the lensing magnification to μ > 4000 and restricting the source plane radius further to r T_(eff) ≃ 13,000–16,000 K, assuming the light is dominated by a single star. The delensed bolometric luminosity in this case ranges from log(L) = 5.8 to 6.6 L_⊙, which is in the range where one expects luminous blue variable stars. Follow-up observations, including JWST NIRSpec scheduled for late 2022, are needed to further unravel the nature of this object, which presents a unique opportunity to study massive stars in the first billion years of the universe.
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| Additional Information: | This work is based on observations made with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The data were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-03127 for JWST. These observations are associated with program JWST GO 2282. E.Z. acknowledges support from the Swedish National Space Board. M.B. acknowledges support from the Slovenian national research agency ARRS through grant N1-0238. A.Z. acknowledges support by grant No. 2020750 from the United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) and grant No. 2109066 from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) and by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Israel. M.T. acknowledges support by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) through project No. CE170100013. The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under grant No. 140. J.M.D. acknowledges the support of projects PGC2018-101814-B-100 and MDM-2017-0765. Y.J.-T. acknowledges financial support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 898633, the MSCA IF Extensions Program of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa award to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (SEV-2017-0709). P.A.O. acknowledges support by the Swiss National Science Foundation through project grant 200020_207349. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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