RUBIES: A complete census of the bright and red distant Universe with JWST/NIRSpec

Graaff, Anna de; Brammer, Gabriel; Weibel, Andrea; Lewis, Zach; Maseda, Michael V.; Oesch, Pascal A.; Bezanson, Rachel; Boogaard, Leindert; Cleri, Nikko J.; Cooper, Olivia R.; Gottumukkala, Rashmi; Greene, Jenny E.; Hirschmann, Michaela; Hviding, Raphael E.; Katz, Harley; Labbé, Ivo; Leja, Joel; Matthee, Jorryt; McConachie, I.; Miller, Tim B.; Naidu, Rohan P.; Price, Sedona H.; Rix, Hans‐Walter; Setton, David J.; Suess, Katherine A.; Wang, Bingjie; Whitaker, Katherine E.; Williams, Christina C.

doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202452186

articleAstronomy and AstrophysicsApr 15, 2025DIAMOND OA

RUBIES: A complete census of the bright and red distant Universe with JWST/NIRSpec

ADAnna de Graaff GBGabriel Brammer AWAndrea Weibel ZLZach Lewis MVMichael V. Maseda

Indexed incrossrefdoaj

Abstract

We present the Red Unknowns: Bright Infrared Extragalactic Survey (RUBIES) providing JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of red sources selected across ∼150 arcmin 2 from public JWST/NIRCam imaging in the UDS and EGS fields. The novel observing strategy of RUBIES offers a well-quantified selection function. The survey has been optimised to reach high (>70%) spectroscopic completeness for bright and red (F150W−F444W>2) sources that are very rare. To place these rare sources in context, we simultaneously observed a reference sample of the 2< z <7 galaxy population, sampling sources at a rate that is inversely proportional to their number density in the 3D parameter space of F444W magnitude, F150W−F444W colour,…

Citation impact

72

total citations

FWCI: 69.27
Percentile: 100%
References: 115

Citations per year

Authors

28

Topics & keywords

Topics

Keywords

Physics
Astrophysics
Astronomy
Universe
Census
Population
Demography

No related works found for this paper.