CANUCS/Technicolor Data Release 1: Imaging, Photometry, Slit Spectroscopy, and Stellar Population Parameters

Abstract

We present the first data release of the Canadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS), a JWST Cycle 1 GTO program targeting five lensing clusters and flanking fields in parallel (A370, MACS0416, MACS0417, MACS1149, and MACS1423; survey area ∼100 arcmin2), with NIRCam imaging, NIRISS slitless spectroscopy, and NIRSpec prism multiobject spectroscopy. Fields centered on cluster cores include imaging in eight bands from 0.9-4.4 μm, alongside continuous NIRISS coverage from 1.15-2 μm, while the NIRCam flanking fields provide five wide-band and nine medium-band filters for exceptional spectral sampling, all to ∼29 magAB. We also present JWST in Technicolor, a Cycle 2 follow-up GO program targeting three CANUCS clusters (A370, MACS0416, and MACS1149). The Technicolor program adds NIRISS slitless spectroscopy in F090W to the cluster fields while adding eight wide-, medium-, and narrowband filters to the flanking fields. This provides NIRCam imaging in all wide- and medium-band filters over ∼30 arcmin2. This paper describes our data reduction and photometry methodology. We release NIRCam, NIRISS, and Hubble Space Telescope imaging, point-spread functions (PSFs), PSF-matched imaging, photometric catalogs, and photometric and spectroscopic redshifts. We provide lens models and stellar population parameters in up to 19 filters for ∼53,000 galaxies in the cluster fields, and ∼44,000 galaxies in up to 29 filters in the flanking fields. We further present 733 NIRSpec spectra and redshift measurements up to z = 10.8. Comparing against our photometric redshifts, we find catastrophic outlier rates of only 4%-7% and scatter of σNMAD of 0.01-0.03.