Appendix A - Science Categories and Keywords
This appendix includes tables listing the Science Keywords that are valid for use in the APT proposal preparation.
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Proposals can designate both a Scientific Category and an Alternate Category. Designating an Alternate Category enables usage of keywords from multiple categories. STScI reserves the right to re-classify proposals. For additional information on the proposal sorting into each panel, see JWST How Your Proposal is Evaluated.
Within a panel, proposals are assigned to individual reviewers based on the reviewers' expertise and based partly on the keywords given in the proposal and partly on analysis of the proposal text. Generally, the more keywords the proposer selects the better the match to reviewers' expertise. Please give as many keywords as possible, but not more than ten. You must give at least three.
The JWST Scientific Categories and Keywords were developed using the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus.
Galactic Panels
Solar System Astronomy |
Asteroids |
Exoplanet Atmospheres and Habitability |
| Astronomical models Astronomical simulations Biomarkers Brown dwarfs Chemical composition Exoplanet atmospheres Exoplanet atmospheric composition Exoplanet atmospheric variability Exoplanet detection methods Exoplanet dynamics Exoplanet structure Exoplanet surfaces Exoplanet systems Extrasolar gaseous giant planets Extrasolar ice giants Extrasolar rocky planets Extrasolar sub-Neptunes High contrast techniques Natural satellites (Extrasolar) Phase curves Planet hosting stars Space weather Transits White dwarfs stars |
Exoplanetary Systems and Dynamics |
| Astronomical models Astronomical simulations Chemical composition Circumstellar disks Circumstellar dust Circumstellar gas Debris disks Exoplanet detection methods Exoplanet dynamics Exoplanet systems Extrasolar gaseous giant planets Free floating planets High contrast techniques Microlensing Natural satellites (Extrasolar) Planet hosting stars Protoplanetary disks (Extrasolar) Stellar accretion disks Transits White dwarfs stars |
Stars and Stellar Populations |
Astrometry |
Interstellar Gas and Dust |
Astrochemistry |
Extragalactic Panels
Galaxy Evolution and the Nearby Universe |
Astronomical models |
Galaxy Frontiers and the Distant Universe |
| Astronomical models Astronomical simulations Balmer break Chemical abundances Circumgalactic medium Cosmic dawn Cosmic infrared background Cosmological parameters Cosmology Damped Lyman-alpha systems Dark matter distribution Dwarf galaxies Elliptical galaxies Emission line galaxies Extragalactic legacy and deep fields Galaxy clusters Galaxy dark matter halos Galaxy disks Galaxy environments Galaxy groups Galaxy kinematics Galaxy mergers Galaxy structure Galaxy winds Gamma-ray bursts Gravitational lensing GRB host galaxies Gunn-Peterson effect High-redshift galaxies Hubble constant Infrared photometry Interacting galaxies Intergalactic dust clouds Intergalactic medium Interstellar dust Intracluster medium Irregular galaxies Large-scale structure of the universe Little red dots Local analogs Luminous infrared galaxies Lyman-alpha forest Lyman-break galaxies Metallicity Metal line absorbers Overdensities Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Population III stars Post-starburst galaxies Protoclusters Protogalaxies Quenched galaxies Reionization Scaling relations Spectral energy distribution Star formation Starburst galaxies Stellar distance Stellar feedback Stellar populations Submillimeter galaxies Supernovae Warm-hot intergalactic medium |
Supermassive Black Holes and Active Galaxies |
| AGN feedback AGN host galaxies Astronomical models Astronomical simulations Blazars Broad-absorption line quasar Circumgalactic medium Cooling flows Damped Lyman-alpha systems Emission line galaxies Galaxy jets Galaxy winds Gunn-Peterson effect High contrast techniques High-luminosity active galactic nuclei Intergalactic medium LINER galaxies Little red dots Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei Lyman-alpha forest Markarian galaxies M-Sigma relation Overdensities Protoclusters Quasars Quenched galaxies Radio cores Reionization Reverberation mapping Seyfert galaxies Stellar accretion disks Supermassive black holes Transient sources Warm-hot intergalactic medium X-Ray active galactic nuclei |
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