NGC 1333 will be a target of an upcoming JWST Guaranteed time program that our group is involved in. Credits: NASA/CXC/JPL

NASA has put out a press release detailing the plan to study very low mass brown dwarfs with JWST though time guaranteed to the instrument teams. From our group, Michael Meyer is a member of the NIRISS and NIRCam instrument teams and is co-Investigator on these exciting programs. Alexandra Greenbaum is part of the NIRISS AMI working group, and is Co-I to a program that will use interferometric methods to search for binaries around a few very low mass objects.

To see the press release: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-webb-telescope-to-investigate-mysterious-brown-dwarfs

A related program on NIRCam led by our group will search for very low mass free floating objects in NGC 2024, taking advantage of the low thermal background provided by JWST. Veenu Suri from our group will be presenting a poster based on his work from the past year at the American Astronomical Society winter meeting this Thurs Jan 11 (2018). His poster is number 355.10.  Veenu explored various combinations of filters on NIRCam that would provide the most information for distinguishing young, low gravity objects, from line-of-sight field objects.