Target Descriptions
The Fixed Targets form is used to specify fixed targets in some JWST observations. This article provides a list of target descriptions for the Astronomer’s Proposal Tool (APT).
Target Descriptions
Table 1. Descriptive Keywords for Clusters of Galaxies
Descriptive Keywords for Clusters of Galaxies | |
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Abell clusters | Intergalactic voids |
Brightest cluster galaxies | Intracluster medium |
Coma Cluster | Large Magellanic Cloud |
Einstein rings | Magellanic Stream |
Galaxy collisions | Perseus Cluster |
Galaxy groups | Poor clusters |
Galaxy mergers | Rich clusters |
Galaxy tides | Small Magellanic Cloud |
Galaxy voids | Superclusters |
Hickson compact group | Virgo Cluster |
High-redshift clusters | Virgo Supercluster |
Interacting galaxies |
Table 2. Descriptive Keywords for Galaxy
Descriptive Keywords for Galaxy | |||
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Active galactic nuclei | E+A galaxies | Interacting galaxies | Radio jets |
Active galaxies | Einstein rings | Irregular galaxies | Radio lobes |
Amorphous Irregular Galaxies | Elliptical galaxies | LINER galaxies | Radio loud quasars |
Astrophysical masers | Emission line galaxies | Lenticular galaxies | Radio plumes |
BL Lacertae objects | Field galaxies | Low Surface Brightness galaxies | Radio quiet quasars |
Barred spiral galaxies | Galactic accretion disks | Lyman-alpha galaxies | Relativistic disks |
Blazars | Galaxy bulges | Lyman-break galaxies | Relativistic jets |
Blue compact dwarf galaxies | Galaxy circumnuclear disk | Magellanic Clouds | Ring galaxies |
Brightest cluster galaxies | Galaxy disks | Magellanic Irregular Galaxies | Seyfert galaxies |
Broad-absorption line quasar | Galaxy halos | Markarian galaxies | Spiral arms |
Compact dwarf galaxy | Galaxy jets | Nucleated dwarf galaxies | Spiral galaxies |
Compact galaxies | Galaxy nuclei | Polar jets | Starburst galaxies |
D galaxies | Galaxy voids | Primordial galaxies | Tidal tails |
Disk galaxies | Giant elliptical galaxies | Protogalaxies | Ultracompact dwarf galaxies |
Double quasars | Giant galaxies | Quasar-galaxy pairs | Ultraluminous infrared galaxies |
Dwarf elliptical galaxies | Haro galaxies | Quasars | X-ray quasars |
Dwarf galaxies | High-redshift galaxies | Radio cores | cD galaxies |
Dwarf irregular galaxies | Infrared excess galaxies | Radio galaxies | |
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies | Infrared galaxies | Radio hot spots |
Table 3. Descriptive Keywords for ISM
Descriptive Keywords for ISM | |||
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Astrophysical masers | Gaseous nebulae | Interstellar dust | Protoplanetary nebulae |
Astrospheres | H I regions | Interstellar magnetic fields | Protostars |
Bipolar nebulae | H II regions | Interstellar molecules | Reflection nebulae |
Bright nebulae | Herbig Ae/Be stars | Intracluster medium | Ring nebulae |
Cocoon stars | Herbig-Haro objects | Lyman limit systems | Silicon monoxide masers |
Cold neutral medium | High-velocity clouds | Lyman-alpha forest clouds | Stellar jets |
Cometary nebulae | Hot intergalactic medium | Magellanic Stream | Stellar wind bubbles |
Compact nebulae | Hot ionized medium | Megamasers | Stellar winds |
Cool intergalactic medium | Hydroxyl masers | Metal line absorbers | Superbubbles |
Damped Lyman-alpha systems | Intercloud medium | Molecular clouds | Supernova remnants |
Dark interstellar clouds | Intergalactic clouds | Molecular gas | Supernova remnants |
Dark matter | Intergalactic dust clouds | Nebulae | Tidal tails |
Dense interstellar clouds | Intergalactic filaments | Neutral hydrogen clouds | Warm ionized medium |
Diffuse interstellar clouds | Intergalactic gas | Photodissociation regions | Warm neutral medium |
Diffuse nebulae | Intergalactic medium | Planetary nebulae | Warm-hot intergalactic medium |
Dust nebulae | Intergalactic voids | Plasma clouds | |
Emission nebulae | Intermediate-velocity clouds | Pre-main sequence stars | |
Evaporating gaseous globules | Interstellar absorption | Pre-solar nebulae | |
Filamentary nebulae | Interstellar clouds | Proplyds |
Table 4. Descriptive Keywords for Star
Descriptive Keywords for Stars | |||
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53 Persei stars | DQ stars | Interacting binary stars | Protostars |
A dwarfs | DZ stars | Irregular variable stars | Pulsars |
A giants | Debris disks | K dwarfs | Pulsating variable stars |
A stars | Delta Delphini stars | K giants | RR Lyrae variable stars |
A subdwarfs | Delta cephei | K stars | RS Canum Venaticorum variables |
A subgiants | Detached binary stars | K subdwarfs | Recurrent novae |
A supergiants | Disk stars | K subgiants | Red giants |
AM Herculis stars | Double-mode Cepheids | K supergiants | Red stragglers |
Asymptotic giant branch | Dust shell | L dwarfs | Red supergiants |
B dwarfs | Dwarf novae | L subdwarfs | S stars |
B giants | Eclipsing binary stars | Late-type giants | Semi-detached binary stars |
B stars | Ejecta | Long period variables | Semiregular variables |
B subdwarfs | Ellipsoidal variable stars | Low-mass X-ray binary stars | Shell stars |
B subgiants | Emission line stars | Luminous blue variables | Slow irregular variables |
B supergiants | Eruptive variables | M dwarfs | Stellar winds |
Barium stars | Eta Carinae stars | M giants | Substellar companions |
Beta Lyrae stars | Exomoons | M stars | Supernovae |
Binary pulsars | Exoplanet Systems | M subdwarfs | Symbiotic binary stars |
Black holes | Exoplanets | M subgiants | T Tauri stars |
Blue stragglers | F dwarfs | M supergiants | T dwarfs |
Bok globules | F giants | Magnetic stars | T subdwarfs |
Brown dwarfs | F stars | Magnetic variable stars | Type II supernovae |
Carbon stars | F subdwarfs | Mira variables | Type Ia supernovae |
Cataclysmic variable stars | F subgiants | Multiple stars | Type Ib supernovae |
Cepheids | F supergiants | Neutron stars | UV transients |
Circumstellar clouds | FU Orionis stars | Nova-like variable stars | W Ursae Majoris variable stars |
Circumstellar disks | Flare stars | Novae | WC stars |
Circumstellar dust | Flash stars | O dwarfs | WN stars |
Circumstellar gas | G dwarfs | O giants | White dwarfs |
Circumstellar masers | G giants | O stars | Wolf-Rayet stars |
Circumstellar matter | G stars | O subdwarfs | X-ray binary stars |
Classical novae | G subdwarfs | O supergiants | X-ray bursters |
Cocoon stars | G subgiants | OB stars | X-ray novae |
Cometary nebulae | G supergiants | PG 1159 stars | X-ray stars |
Compact binary stars | Gamma Ray bursters | Periodic variable stars | X-ray transients |
Compact binary systems | Gamma Ray transients | Planetary nebulae nuclei | Y dwarfs |
Companion stars | Giant stars | Population I stars | Yellow stragglers |
Contact binary stars | H-alpha stars | Population II stars | Young disk Cepheids |
DA stars | Heavy metal stars | Population III stars | Young stellar objects |
DB stars | Herbig Ae/Be stars | Post-asymptotic giant branch | ZZ Ceti stars |
DC stars | Herbig-Haro objects | Pre-main sequence stars | |
DO stars | High-mass X-ray binary stars | Proplyds | |
DQ Herculis stars | Horizontal branch stars | Protoplanetary disks |
Table 5. Descriptive Keywords for Stellar Cluster
Descriptive Keywords for Stellar Cluster | |
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Globular star clusters | Protoclusters |
Moving clusters | R associations |
O associations | Stellar associations |
O clusters | T associations |
OB associations | Young associations |
Open star clusters | Young star clusters |
Table 6. Descriptive Keywords for Unidentified
Descriptive Keywords for Unidentified | |
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Blank field | Ultraviolet sources |
High latitude field | Variable radiation sources |
Infrared sources | Visible sources |
Parallel field | X-ray sources |
Radio sources |
Table 7. Descriptive Keywords for Calibration
Descriptive Keywords for Calibration | ||
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Aperture location | Photometric | A stars |
Astrometric | Point spread function | Binary stars |
Coronagraphic | Pointing and jitter test | Emission nebulae |
Detector linearity test | Spectrophotometric | Emission line stars |
External flat field | Stray light test | G stars |
Focus test | Target acquisition test | Open star clusters |
Line spread function | Telescope/sky background | Planetary nebulae |
Persistence test | Wavelength | White dwarfs |