1605.06334
The impact of JWST broad-band filter choice on photometric redshift estimation
Bisigello, et al
The determination of galaxy redshifts in JWST's blank-field surveys will mostly rely on photometric estmiantes, based on the data provided by JWST's NIRCam at 0.6-5.0 um and Mid Infrared instrument (MIRI) at lambda>5.0 um. In this work, analyse the impact of choosing different combinations of NIRCam and MIRI broad-band filters (F070W to F770W), as well as having ancillary data at lambda<0.6 um, on the derived photo-z of a total of 5921 real and simulated galaxies, with known input redshifts z=0-10. Find that observations at lambda<0.6um are necessary to control the contamination of high-z samples by low-z interlopers. Adding MIRI (F560W and F770W) photometry to the NIRCam data mitigates the absence of ancillary observations at lambda<0.6um and improves the redshift estimation, both reducing the fraction of high-z contaminants and preventing the leakage of high-z sources towards low z. At z=7-10, accurate zphot can be obtained with the NIRCam broad bands alone when S/N>=10, but the zphot quality significantly degrades at S/N<=5. Adding MIRI photometry with one magnitude brighter depth than the NIRCam depth allows for a redshift recovery of 83-99%, depending on SED type, and its effect is particularly noteworthy for galaxies with nebular emission. The vast majority of NIRCam galaxies with [F150W]=29 AB mag at z=7-10 will be detected with MIRI at [F560W,F770W]<28 mag if these sources are at least mildly evolved or have spectra with emission lines boosting the mid-infrared fluxes.
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