JWST Proposal Handbook PDFs

The official—and most up-to-date—JWST user documentation are available in the webpage articles on this website. 

Downloadable PDF collections of the documentation are provided below as a courtesy, made available and updated when feasible. 

Updated August 22, 2024

Unless otherwise noted, the PDF documents listed below were created on August 22, 2024. They include updates for APT 2024.5, as well as in-flight performance information from observatory commissioning data and Cycle 1 calibration data. 

For the duration of the Cycle 4 Call for Proposals (August 1 to October 16, 2024), content related to proposal preparation will be frozen unless there is the need for an urgent update. (Some articles requiring updates, such as those with APT 2024.5 information, were published on August 22.)

Content regarding data calibration and analysis will continue to be updated as needed. 

JWST Call for Proposals for Cycle 4 (uploaded on August 1, 2024)

JWST Proposing Opportunities

JWST Observatory

JWST Mid Infrared Instrument

JWST Near Infrared Camera

JWST Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph

JWST Near Infrared Spectrograph

JWST Proposal Preparation

JWST Proposing Tools 

JWST Observing Process (uploaded on August 1, 2024)

JWST Data




Notable updates
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    New set of PDF documents for Cycle 4 with updated content for APT 2024.5 
Originally published