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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
卷 134, 期 1035, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ac604c
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资金
- STScI under NASA [NAS5-03127, 1288]
- Univ. of Maryland [1288]
- Univ. of Michigan [1288]
- Univ. of Toledo [1288]
- Programme National Physique et Chimie du Milieu Interstellaire (PCMI) of CNRS/INSU
- INC/INP - CEA
- CNES
- APR grants by CNES [6315, 6410]
- National Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant program [RGPIN-2020-06434, RGPIN-2021-04197]
- Western Strategic Support Accelerator Grant [0000050636]
- Spanish MCINN [PID2019-106110GB-I00]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [184018867]
- JSPS Bilateral Program [120219939]
- NASA Astrophysics Data Analysis Program [80NSSC19K0573]
- NASA Ames Research Center through the San Jose State University Research Foundation [NNX17AJ88A]
- Internal Scientist Funding Model (ISFM) Directed Work Package at NASA Ames titled: Laboratory Astrophysics-The NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database
Massive stars disrupt the molecular cloud material through radiative and mechanical feedback processes, impacting the evolution of interstellar matter. Observations of Photo-Dissociation Regions (PDRs) provide insights into physical and chemical processes in interstellar and circumstellar media. PDR emission dominates infrared spectra of star-forming galaxies and will be a focus of observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Massive stars disrupt their natal molecular cloud material through radiative and mechanical feedback processes. These processes have profound effects on the evolution of interstellar matter in our Galaxy and throughout the universe, from the era of vigorous star formation at redshifts of 1-3 to the present day. The dominant feedback processes can be probed by observations of the Photo-Dissociation Regions (PDRs) where the far-ultraviolet photons of massive stars create warm regions of gas and dust in the neutral atomic and molecular gas. PDR emission provides a unique tool to study in detail the physical and chemical processes that are relevant for most of the mass in inter- and circumstellar media including diffuse clouds, proto-planetary disks, and molecular cloud surfaces, globules, planetary nebulae, and star-forming regions. PDR emission dominates the infrared (IR) spectra of star-forming galaxies. Most of the Galactic and extragalactic observations obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will therefore arise in PDR emission. In this paper we present an Early Release Science program using the MIRI, NIRSpec, and NIRCam instruments dedicated to the observations of an emblematic and nearby PDR: the Orion Bar. These early JWST observations will provide template data sets designed to identify key PDR characteristics in JWST observations. These data will serve to benchmark PDR models and extend them into the JWST era. We also present the Science-Enabling products that we will provide to the community. These template data sets and Science-Enabling products will guide the preparation of future proposals on star-forming regions in our Galaxy and beyond and will facilitate data analysis and interpretation of forthcoming JWST observations.
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