sci25001 — Announcement

Special Session on JWST Data Pipeline at EAS 2025

20 March 2025

-By Chris Evans, Paule Sonnentrucker & Macarena Garcia Marin-

We are delighted to announce a Special Session on the JWST Data Pipeline at this year’s European Astronomical Society (EAS) meeting in Cork, Ireland. The session will be held on Friday 27 June, and will be a hands-on opportunity for researchers from across Europe to build their expertise and confidence with JWST data.

The session is primarily intended for researchers who have yet to work with JWST data, or have had limited experience so far. The session will aim to provide a foundation in the basics of the calibration pipeline and to walk attendees through examples of the reduction and calibration of JWST data. Our goal is that if you attend you will be better prepared afterwards to embark on analysis of data, whether from your own programmes or using the publicly available data from the first three years of observations that are now available in the mission archives.

The Special Session will include introductory talks from our ESA team that supports JWST Science Operations, including a summary of the status of the observatory and the data pipeline. The majority of the 3 x 1.5-hour programme will be hands-on exercises that will feature some of the most used scientific modes of the observatory.

If you are registered for the EAS and would like to join this Special Session, please also register separately here by Friday 9 May so that we can send you information ahead of the session. To ensure a good balance of instructors to participants, the number of available places will be limited, so please also give a brief motivation of your reasons to attend when you register.

Preparatory work will be required ahead of the Special Session. You will need to install the JWST calibration pipeline and download relevant datasets, so that everything is set up and ready to use at the start. Please note that MacOS and Linux platforms are tested and supported by the pipeline, but Windows machines are not currently supported, owing to a lack of the required compilers. We ask that those planning to attend the session secure the use of a Mac or Linux laptop.

If you would like to learn more about ESA’s missions and data archives during the EAS week, there are lunch sessions on the ESA Science Programme and the ESA Space Science Archives. We look forward to seeing many of you in Ireland in June!

Contacts

Chris Evans
ESA/HST & ESA/JWST Project Scientist
ESA Office, STScI Baltimore, USA
Email: [email protected]