############################## ### CEERS Data Release 0.5 ### ############################## Date Released: 2 November, 2022 Here we provide our team's reductions of the first set of CEERS observations, MIRI primary imaging of four pointings with NIRCam imaging in parallel. These CEERS Epoch 1 observations are of pointings 1, 2, 3 and 6, and were obtained on 21 June and 28 June 2022. All our data products are available at MAST as a High Level Science Product via DOI 10.17909/z7p0-8481. ############ ### Summary Instrument: MIRI Mode: Imaging Calibration Pipeline Used: jwst v1.7.2 CRDS Context pmap: 0970 Target: MIRI Pointings 1, 2, 3, 6 (as primary with parallel NIRCam imaging) Filters: F560W, F770W, F1000W, F1280W, F1500W, F1800W, F2100W Readout: SLOWR1 (F560W and F770W), FASTR1 (all other filters) Observation specification: Groups and integrations vary by filter and pointing Dithers: 3 point dither in each filter, optimized for MIRI+NIRCam coordinated parallels Contact: Guang Yang: gyang206265@gmail.com Casey Papovich: papovich@tamu.edu ########################################## ### Epoch 1 MIRI Imaging and Reduction This 0.5 data release includes CEERS MIRI pointings 1, 2, 3 and 6. For each pointing we provide fully reduced mosaics in all available filters. Note that the pixel scale is 0.09 arcsec/pixel (not the default 0.11 arcsec/pixel). This means the AB-mag zeropoint = 25.70091 mag. The mosaics are pixel-aligned across all filters. Each mosaic is a FITS file with 11 extensions, described below. For each pointing, we also provide a gzipped tarball (tar.gz) containing mosaics for all filters. We have reduced the raw images through the JWST Calibration Pipeline (v1.7.2) with custom modifications and reduction steps designed to address additional features and challenges with the data such as outlier detection, background subtraction and astrometric alignment. We have also produced custom RMS maps using astroRMS (https://github.com/mmechtley/astroRMS, based on the science image and weight map in the pipeline produced outputs). This RMS is typically larger than the pipeline-produced ERR map due to positive pixel-correlated noise. We include this RMS map as an extension in the FITS file (see below) and strongly recommend using it instead of the ERR map. The data reduction is described in detail in Yang et al. (2023, submitted). (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230714509Y/abstract) Please cite this paper if you use the reduced images or reduction scripts for your project. We present the reduction of our pre-flight simulated MIRI images in Yang et al., 2021, ApJ, 908, 144. (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ...908..144Y/abstract) ####################### ### Directory Contents Mosaics for each pointing are stored in separate directories. The MIRI mosaic filenames are of the form: [pointing]/hlsp_ceers_jwst_miri_[pointing]_[filter]_dr0.5_i2d.fits where: - [pointing] is one of 'miri1', 'miri2', 'miri3' or 'miri6' - [filter] is one of 'f115w', 'f150w', 'f200w', 'f277w', 'f356w', 'f410m', or 'f444w' The gzipped tarballs [pointing].tar.gz include all MIRI mosaics for each pointing. #################### ### File structure The MIRI images are multi-extension fits files with 11 extensions: 0. PRIMARY header 1. SCI - 2D science image, in units of MegaJansky per steradian [MJy/sr] 2. RMS - the RMS map produced by astroRMS 3. ERR - 2D array of uncertainties, given as standard deviation and constructed as the sum in quadrature of the resampled variance maps 4. CON - 2D context image, encoding info about which input images contribution to each output pixel 5. WHT - 2D weight image giving the relative weight of the output pixels, constructed from the VAR_RNOISE map during resampling 6. VAR_POISSON - 2D variance array based on Poisson noise only 7. VAR_RNOISE - 2D variance array based on read noise only 8. VAR_FLAT - 2D variance array based on uncertainty in the flat-field 9. HDRTAB - table containing metadata (FITS keyword values) for all the input images 10. ASDF - meta data for the JWST data model For more information on JWST file names and extension explanations, see: jwst-pipeline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jwst/data_products/science_products.html JWST images can be read in several ways. For example, with astropy: >>> from astropy.io import fits >>> with fits.open('hlsp_ceers_jwst_miri_miri1_f115w_dr0.5_i2d.fits') as hdu: ... hdu.info() Or using the jwst datamodels: >>> from jwst.datamodels import ImageModel >>> with ImageModel('hlsp_ceers_jwst_miri_miri1_f115w_dr0.5_i2d.fits.gz') as im: ... im.info() For more information on JWST Data Models, see: jwst-pipeline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jwst/datamodels/index.html