Team Deep JWST

Team Resources

Resources

• DAWN JWST Archive: https://dawn-cph.github.io/dja/  

• UCDMCMC fitting code: https://github.com/aburgasser/ucdmcmc  

• SPLAT analysis code: https://github.com/aburgasser/splat 

• TAPS - Evan's & Marylin's analysis code: https://github.com/e-pritchard/TAPS 

Relevant Publications

• Nonino et al. (2023): "Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XIII. A Faint, Distant, and Cold Brown Dwarf"- first detection of a distant brown dwarf in GLASS survey https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...942L..29N/abstract 

• Burgasser et al. (2024): "UNCOVER: JWST Spectroscopy of Three Cold Brown Dwarfs at Kiloparsec-scale Distances" - 3 distant T dwarfs in UNCOVER survey  https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ...962..177B/abstract 

• Hainline et al. (2024): "Brown Dwarf Candidates in the JADES and CEERS Extragalactic Surveys"- photometric selection of 21 brown dwarfs in JADES & CEERS surveys https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ...964...66H/abstract 

• Hainline et al. (2024): "Cosmic evolution early release science survey (CEERS): multiclassing galactic dwarf stars in the deep JWST/NIRCam"- photometric selection of M dwarfs in CEERS using kNN machine learning methods https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRAS.529.1067H/abstract 

• Tu et al. (2025): "Three Brown Dwarfs Masquerading as High-redshift Galaxies in JWST Observations"- 3 brown dwarfs in RUBIES survey https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025ApJ...980..230T/abstract 

• Chen et al. (2025): "Brown dwarf number density in the JWST COSMOS-Web field"- use of photometric selection in COSMOS-Web survey to identify 25 T and Y dwarfs and estimate the space density of brown dwarfs https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025PASA...42...42C/abstract 

• Merlin et al. (2025): "ASTRODEEP-JWST: NIRCam-HST multi-band photometry and redshifts for half a million sources in six extragalactic deep fields " - photometric catalog for JWST deep fields https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26A...691A.240M/abstract 

• Hainline et al. (2025): "JADES: An Abundance of Ultra-Distant T- and Y-Dwarfs in Deep Extragalactic Data" https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv251000111H/abstract ← photometric selection of 41 T & Y dwarf candidates (may also contain some needed JADES photometry!)

• Tu et al. (2025): "A Large Sample of JWST/NIRSpec Brown Dwarfs: New Distant Discoveries" https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025ApJS..281...49T/abstract ← VERY SIMILAR to what we're working on, looking through DJA and pulling out spectral candidates

• Gandolfi et al. (2026): "Mysteries of Capotauro: Investigating the puzzling nature of an extreme F356W-dropout" https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026A%26A...706A.364G/abstract - A mystery object that might be a high redshift quasar or a Y-type brown dwarf

• Li et al. (2026): "Two late-T dwarfs at kiloparsec distances revealed by JWST UNCOVER survey" https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026MNRAS.547ag227L/abstract - Two more T dwarfs and an L subdwarf candidates found photometrically in the UNCOVER survey

• Morrissey et al. (2026): "Discovery of Seven Cold and Distant Brown Dwarfs with JWST RUBIES" https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv251101167M/abstract - discovery and model fitting of 7 brown dwarfs in RUBIES data  

• Bradac et al. (2026): "Two Exciting High-redshift Galaxy Candidates Turn Out to Be Two Exciting Ultra-cool Brown Dwarfs" https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026arXiv260423668B/abstract - discovery of 2 Y dwarfs in deep spectroscopic data of the Bullet Cluster