Space Telescope Science Institute TOGGLE SEARCH SEARCH MENU Main Navigation WHITE PAPERS JWST Home About News & Events Instrumentation Science Planning Science Execution Documentation Breadcrumbs Navigation Home James Webb Space Telescope About History Introduction Potential Science with JWST In the course of working on the development of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Science Working Group and other scientists have written a variety of white papers describing science programs that might be accomplished with JWST. Several of these are listed below. Astronomers interested in learning more will find these papers a good place to start. These white papers reflect the thoughts and advice of the Science Working Group (SWG) and other project scientists on the capabilities to build into the JWST system. They do not imply what science must be carried out with JWST, since nearly all of the observing time on the observatory will be subject to open competitions. There are, of course, many other discussions of potential JWST science in the refereed literature. Search: Title Author Publication Date Astro 2020 White Paper: Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exoplanets with JWST Beichman et al. March 11, 2019 Astro 2020 White Paper: Characterizing Transiting Exoplanets with JWST Guaranteed Time and ERS Observations Greene et al. March 11, 2019 Astro 2020 White Paper: Solar System Science with JWST Hammel et al. March 11, 2019 Astro 2020 White Paper: Comparing Key Compositional Indicators in Jupiter with Those in Extra-solar Giant Planets Lunine et al. March 11, 2019 Astro 2020 White Paper: Infrared Stellar Populations: Probing the Beginning and the End Meixner et al. March 11, 2019 Astro 2020 White Paper: JWST GTO/ERS Deep Surveys Reike et al. March 11, 2019 Astro 2020 White Paper: JWST/MIRI Surveys in GOODS-S Rieke et al. March 11, 2019 Astro 2020 White Paper: On the Observability of Individual Population III Stars and Their Stellar-mass Black Hole Accretion Disks through Cluster Caustic Transits Windhorst et al. March 11, 2019 Observations of Transiting Exoplanets with the JWST Beichman et al. November 6, 2014 Solar System Observations with JWST Norwood et al. March 24, 2014 Transiting Exoplanet Simulations with the James Webb Space Telescope Batalha et al. December 20, 2013 James Webb Space Telescope Project: Science Requirements Document Gardner et al. July 10, 2012 Frontier Science Opportunities with JWST Kalirai June 8, 2011 Comparative Planetology: Transiting Exoplanet Science with JWST Clampin et al. February 13, 2009 James Webb Space Telescope Studies of Dark Energy Gardner et al. March 18, 2010 JWST Planetary Observations within the Solar System Lunine et al. March 9, 2010 Scientific Role of the James Webb Space Telescope in “New Worlds, New Horizons” Hammel et al. September 1, 2010 First Light and Reionization: Open Questions in the Post-JWST Era Stiavelli et al. February 14, 2009 Galaxies Across Cosmic Time with JWST Windhorst et al. February 13, 2009 The Scientific Capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope Gardner et al. February 14, 2009 Stellar Populations with JWST: The Beginning and the End Meixner et al. February 13, 2009 JWST Study of Planetary Systems and Solar System Objects Sonneborn et al. February 13, 2009 Studying Resolved Stellar Populations with the James Webb Space Telescope Brown et al. October 22, 2008 Coronagraphic Detection of Exosolar Planets with JWST Clampin et al. April 17, 2007 Detection of Planetary Transits with the James Webb Space Telescope Clampin et al. April 2, 2007 A Strategy To Study First Light with JWST Stiavelli et al. May 10, 2007 Added JWST Science Cases for the Timeframe 2012-2015 Calzetti et al. June 24, 2005 Astrobiology and JWST Seager et al. March 30, 2004 Subscribe to the JWST Observer News Mailing List Get the latest news delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe Follow JWST Observer on social media: Link tofacebook Link totwitter Link toyoutube For technical assistance, please contact the JWST Help Desk . The NASA James Webb Space Telescope, developed in partnership with ESA and CSA, is operated by AURA’s Space Telescope Science Institute. Back to top Footer STScI Secondary Navigation Who We Are Webcasts MAST News Center MyST Contact Us Opportunities Events Follow us on our social media channels. Link tofacebook Link totwitter Link toinstagram Link toyoutube Utility Navigation Sitemap Copyright Privacy