AGU Special Collection

Solar System Science from JWST

Submission Open: 1 September 2022

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2023

A web-based collection of JWST Solar System papers in JGR-Planets, JGR-Space Physics, and Geophysical Research Letters. The latter is ideal for short-format and high-impact papers.

Special Collection Organizers:

Leigh N. Fletcher, University of Leicester
Heidi Hammel, AURA
Imke de Pater, UC Berkeley
Stefanie Milam, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center
Thierry Fouchet, Observatoire de Paris

Background

JWST will provide unprecedented new insights into numerous Solar System targets during its first year of science operations. Scheduled observations will target the Giant Planets and their active satellites; Mars’s atmosphere; dwarf planets from Centaurs to the Kuiper Belt; asteroids and comets; and even potential interstellar objects. Results are expected to span planetary origins, atmospheres, magnetospheres, surfaces, and more. JWST can track moving targets, and its instruments provide opportunities for spatially-resolved spectroscopy, high-resolution imaging, aperture-masked interferometry, and more. Furthermore, JWST infrared datasets will be supported by observatories operating on the ground and in space, providing novel datasets that can be combined with JWST data. This AGU special collection will bring together a diverse set of scientific discoveries and techniques, enabled by the Guaranteed Time, Early-Release, and Guest Observer science observations during Cycle 1, as a resource for the community making use of JWST in future cycles.

Instructions for Authors

The collection will open for submissions on September 1, 2022 and will close on December 31, 2023. We encourage authors to act in a timely manner and remain responsive throughout the review process. Authors should submit through the submission portals below. When authors submit a manuscript, they should select the collection’s title from the dropdown menu in the Special Collection field of the submission form.

Please review the AGU data policy and information on unpublished references, and note that submitted manuscripts may cite other pending (in prep/submitted/in revision) submissions to the collection and that the corresponding authors should upload drafts of any unpublished work they cite under the “Related Manuscript” file type for peer review. We also encourage the use of the preprint server ESSOAr to publish preprints of manuscripts that reference each other, which relieves authors of uploading drafts of unpublished references as part of their submission package. (There is a 1-click transfer option to ESSOAr on our submission site.)

To submit your manuscript, use the submission site for JGR-Planets, JGR-Space Physics, and Geophysical Research Letters, and select the collection’s title from the drop down menu in the Special Section field of the submission form.

Open Research Section

AGU requires that data needed to understand, evaluate, and build upon the reported research must be available at the time of peer review and publication. Additionally, authors should make available software that has a significant impact on the research. Data, software, and other research objects (e.g. notebooks) should be made available in repositories that support preservation and reuse.

Specifically:

An Availability Statement in the Open Research section of the paper is required describing where readers can find and access the data and software.
A full citation in the References section for all data and software that has a persistent identifier or URL is required. A corresponding in-text citation should be included in the Open Research section.
The Reference List entries for the data and software citation (e.g., DOI, URL) should include a bracketed description of their contents. For example, if the Reference List entry corresponds to a dataset, please include [Dataset] in the Reference List entry. Guidance on what the Availability Statement and Citation should include along with a checklist, templates and examples can be found at Data & Software for Authors.

Some example citaton commands are provided below:

@data{MAST_OPAL,
	author = ,
	date-added = {2023-05-25 10:01:56 +0100},
	date-modified = {2023-05-25 10:02:31 +0100},
	doi = {10.17909/T9G593},
	title = ,
	url = {https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/opal/},
	year = {2022},
	bdsk-url-1 = {https://github.com/spacetelescope/jwst},
	bdsk-url-2 = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7038885}}

@software{23king_pipeline,
	author = {King, Oliver R.T. and Harkett, Jake and Fletcher, L. N. and Melin, H.},
	date-added = {2023-05-25 09:54:04 +0100},
	date-modified = {2023-05-25 09:55:28 +0100},
	doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7891560},
	title = ,
	url = {https://github.com/JWSTGiantPlanets/pipelines/},
	year = {2023},
	bdsk-url-1 = {https://github.com/spacetelescope/jwst},
	bdsk-url-2 = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7038885}}

@software{23bushouse,
	author = {Bushouse, Howard and Eisenhamer, Jonathan and Dencheva, Nadia and Davies, James and Greenfield, Perry and Morrison, Jane and Hodge, Phil and Simon, Bernie and Grumm, David and Droettboom, Michael and Slavich, Edward and Sosey, Megan and Pauly, Tyler and Miller, Todd and Jedrzejewski, Robert and Hack, Warren and Davis, David and Crawford, Steven and Law, David and Gordon, Karl and Regan, Michael and Cara, Mihai and MacDonald, Ken and Bradley, Larry and Shanahan, Clare and Jamieson, William and Teodoro, Mairan and Williams, Thomas},
	date-added = {2023-05-25 09:47:49 +0100},
	date-modified = {2023-05-25 09:55:55 +0100},
	doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7038885},
	month = apr,
	title = ,
	url = {https://github.com/spacetelescope/jwst},
	version = {1.10.2},
	year = {2023},
	bdsk-url-1 = {https://github.com/spacetelescope/jwst},
	bdsk-url-2 = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7038885}}