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JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: stellar population catalogue for galaxies in GOODS-N and GOODS-S

Qiao Duan , Sandro Tacchella , Benjamin D. Johnson , Brant Robertson , Charlotte Simmonds , William M. Baker , Andrew J. Bunker , Stefano Carniani
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Courtney Carreira St\'ephane Charlot Jacopo Chevallard Emma Curtis-Lake A. Lola Danhaive Francesco D'Eugenio Daniel J. Eisenstein Sophia Geris Kevin N. Hainline Ryan Hausen Jakob M. Helton Patricia Iglesias-Navarro Yuki Isobe Zhiyuan Ji Maria Koller Tobias J. Looser Roberto Maiolino Robert G. Pascalau Pablo G. P\'erez-Gonz\'alez D\'avid Pusk\'as Marcia Rieke Bruno Rodr\'iguez Del Pino Pierluigi Rinaldi Jan Scholtz Amanda Stoffers Yang Sun James A. A. Trussler Hannah \"Ubler Christina C. Williams Lily Whitler Zihao Wu Yongda Zhu
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JADES DR5 supplies stellar parameters for half a million galaxies

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The paper releases a catalogue of stellar population parameters for roughly 500,000 galaxies in the GOODS-N and GOODS-S fields based on JADES DR5 data. The authors use Bayesian modelling with the Prospector code on JWST and multi-wavelength observations to infer properties including stellar masses and star formation histories. An evolving star-forming main sequence prior is used to guide the flexible non-parametric SFHs, which helps in producing a consistent dataset for exploring galaxy growth over time.

Core claim

The JADES DR5 stellar population catalogue delivers homogeneous Bayesian inferences of galaxy physical properties such as stellar masses, SFRs, SFHs, dust attenuation, metallicities, and AGN contributions for sources in GOODS-N and GOODS-S. Deep JWST/NIRCam and MIRI imaging combined with ancillary data and the use of an evolving SFMS prior in non-parametric modelling enable robust measurements to low mass limits and reduce degeneracies, particularly for faint high-redshift sources.

What carries the argument

The evolving star-forming main sequence prior that shapes the long-term form of non-parametric star formation histories while permitting substantial deviations where data support them.

If this is right

  • The catalogue supplies a uniform set of stellar population parameters for statistical studies of galaxy growth, quenching, and stellar mass build-up.
  • It supports improved constraints on recent star-formation activity for approximately 350,000 galaxies at redshifts 1 to 9.
  • The approach reduces unphysical solutions and degeneracies that commonly affect faint sources.
  • The public release enables large-scale analyses of how galaxies evolve across cosmic time.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The catalogue could be cross-matched with other JWST or ground-based datasets to test consistency of mass and SFR estimates at the faint end.
  • Similar evolving priors might improve parameter recovery in upcoming wide-field surveys that reach even lower masses.
  • Direct comparison of the inferred SFHs against outputs from cosmological simulations would test whether the prior reproduces realistic scatter at high redshift.

Load-bearing premise

The evolving star-forming main sequence prior provides a physically-motivated long-term shape of star formation histories while retaining non-parametric flexibility and mitigating degeneracies between redshift, age, dust, and metallicity.

What would settle it

A systematic mismatch between the catalogue's stellar masses or star formation histories and independent measurements from spectroscopy or hydrodynamical simulations would show that the prior or modelling choices do not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.21599 by A. Lola Danhaive, Amanda Stoffers, Andrew J. Bunker, Benjamin D. Johnson, Brant Robertson, Bruno Rodr\'iguez Del Pino, Charlotte Simmonds, Christina C. Williams, Courtney Carreira, Daniel J. Eisenstein, D\'avid Pusk\'as, Emma Curtis-Lake, Francesco D'Eugenio, Hannah \"Ubler, Jacopo Chevallard, Jakob M. Helton, James A. A. Trussler, Jan Scholtz, Kevin N. Hainline, Lily Whitler, Marcia Rieke, Maria Koller, Pablo G. P\'erez-Gonz\'alez, Patricia Iglesias-Navarro, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Qiao Duan, Robert G. Pascalau, Roberto Maiolino, Ryan Hausen, Sandro Tacchella, Sophia Geris, Stefano Carniani, St\'ephane Charlot, Tobias J. Looser, William M. Baker, Yang Sun, Yongda Zhu, Yuki Isobe, Zhiyuan Ji, Zihao Wu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Number of available filter bands in the JADES DR5 release across the GOODS-S and GOODS-N fields. A total of 469 arcmin2 is covered, with 245 arcmin2 in GOODS-S and 224 arcmin2 in GOODS-N. We plot each galaxy as a point, with the color indicating the number of available photometric bands used for the SED fitting. Top panels: Combined HST and JWST/NIRCam coverage, with GOODS-S observed in 27 bands (9 HST and… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: SFH trajectories derived from the star-forming main sequence (SFMS). The background rainbow curves represent the SFMS fitted to the data from Simmonds et al. (2025), using the parameterisation described in Equation 2, with redshift indicated by the colour bar. While the observational constraints from Simmonds et al. (2025) span 3 ≤ 𝑧 ≤ 9, the SFMS is extrap￾olated beyond this range following the adopted pa… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Base of the star-forming main sequence (SFMS) prior introduced in this work, around which the SFHs are allowed to vary. Left Panel: Example base SFHs derived from the SFMS for galaxies at stellar mass log10 (𝑀∗/M⊙ ) = 8.0 at 12 discrete redshifts spanning 1 ≤ 𝑧 ≤ 16, with curves colour-coded by redshift. These SFHs represent the baseline trajectories implied by the SFMS prior, rather than the final inferre… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Prospector SED fit for a galaxy at 𝑧spec = 7.43, using 28-band photometry from HST/ACS+WFC3 (9 bands), JWST/NIRCam (11 bands), and MIRI (8 bands). The photometric coverage spans key spectral features, including the Lyman break, optical emission-lines, dust continuum, and potential AGN contributions. Left panels: The modelled photometry and spectrum are shown as blue square and a black curve, respectively, … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: SFHs inferred using the non-parametric SFMS prior based on photometric data alone for 16 spectroscopically confirmed quiescent galaxies from the literature (Carnall et al. 2023; D’Eugenio et al. 2024; Looser et al. 2024; Baker et al. 2025b; Pascalau et al. 2026b; Baker et al. 2026). For each galaxy, we show the modelled SFH on the left, and the corresponding RGB cutout, together with the stellar mass and s… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Distribution of 𝜒 values across all HST and NIRCam filter bands from all galaxies, computed as 𝜒 = ( 𝑓obs − 𝑓Prospector)/𝜎obs. Top panel: 𝜒 distributions for individual bands, shown as violin plots. Circles indicate NIRCam bands and triangles indicate HST bands; vertical error bars denote the 1𝜎 spread. The low 𝜒 values across all filters reflect the high fidelity of the SED fits. Bottom panel: 𝜒 as a func… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence for the 18 free parameters in our Prospector SED model. For each parameter, we compute the KL divergence across the full galaxy sample, with the bar height indicating the median value and the error bars showing the 16th and 84th percentiles. A strongly data-driven constraint corresponds to KL > 1.0, i.e., log10 (KL) > 0.0, as indicated by the horizontal line. Each parameter… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Hexbin plot showing log10 (𝑀∗/M⊙ ) as a function of log10 (F444WKRON-Conv [nJy] ), across 12 redshift bins. Hexbins are shown wherever at least three data point is present. Galaxies with bin centers in the range 0.5 ≤ 𝑧 ≤ 8.5 are shown using a green–blue colormap, while those in the range 8.5 ≤ 𝑧 ≤ 16.5 are shown with a purple–pink colormap. A linear model with intrinsic scatter (see Section C) is fit to e… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Hexbin plot showing the uncertainty in stellar mass, 𝜎𝑀∗ = 𝜎[log10 (𝑀∗/M⊙ ) ], as a function of log10 (SNRF444W) across 12 redshift bins. Hexbins are shown wherever at least three data point is present. Galaxies with bin centers in the range 0.5 ≤ 𝑧 ≤ 8.5 are shown in a green–blue colormap, while those in 8.5 ≤ 𝑧 ≤ 16.5 are shown in purple–pink. For each redshift bin, we fit the binned data using the funct… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Two plots showing photometric redshift accuracy by comparing it with 16,320 robust spectroscopic redshifts. Hexbins are shown wherever at least one 1 point is present. Top panel: Assessment of Prospector photometric redshift accuracy. Photometric redshifts are compared with spectroscopic redshifts for 16,320 galaxies with highly robust and secure spectroscopic measurements. The six panels show the full sa… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Comparison between SFRH𝛼, derived from H𝛼 emission using the R1000 grating, and SFR10 Myr, inferred from the SFH using Prospector. Spectroscopically confirmed Type-I and Type-II AGN are excluded. We find a tight correlation, with a median residual (SFR10Myr− SFRH𝛼) of −0.017+0.380 −0.349 dex. This agreement demonstrates that the extensive medium￾band coverage in GOODS-S and GOODS-N provided by the JADES D… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Histograms of log10 (fAGN ) for galaxies in the HST + NIRCam + MIRI + Spec-z sample (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Comparison of redshift, stellar mass, and SFR with and without the inclusion of of medium band, using 15,990 detected galaxies (SNRF444W ≥ 3) with deep exposure and ≥ 7 medium-bands in GOODS-S. Top panel: Redshift comparison with spectroscopic redshifts (3,397/15,990) of these two runs. Normalised median absolute deviation, 𝜎NMAD, and outlier fractions, 𝜂, are shown. Both runs have good redshift quality. … view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: In this figure, we demonstrate how the inclusion of NIRCam medium-band photometry improves stellar mass uncertainty estimates, using 15,990 detected galaxies (SNRF444W ≥ 3) with deep exposure and ≥ 7 medium-bands in GOODS-S. Top panel: We show the stacked stellar mass posteriors for galaxies in each redshift bin. For each galaxy, the stellar mass posterior is shifted such that its 50th percentile is cente… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Stellar mass residuals shown as a function of stellar mass derived from HST + NIRCam alone. The residuals are defined as (HST + NIRCam + MIRI minus HST + NIRCam, Equation 19). We find excellent agreement across the full stellar mass range, with an average offset of +0.008+0.139 −0.147 dex, well within the typical stellar mass uncertainties. We further examine potential redshift dependence and find that th… view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: In this figure, we compare the inferred stellar masses and SFHs obtained using the SFMS prior introduced in this work with those derived from two SFH priors commonly adopted in the literature. The comparison is performed using a sample of 40,641 galaxies with SNRF444W > 5.0 and at least 20 HST+NIRCam bands. Setup-1 Prior: 𝜎 = 0.3, 𝜇 = 0 (Leja et al. 2017; Tacchella et al. 2022c; Simmonds et al. 2024b); Se… view at source ↗
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We present the galaxy stellar population catalogue from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5 (DR5), providing homogeneous Bayesian inference of physical galaxy properties in GOODS-N and GOODS-S. Using deep JWST/NIRCam and MIRI imaging combined with ancillary multi-wavelength data, we model the spectral energy distributions of ~500,000 sources with the Prospector framework. Our modelling incorporates flexible non-parametric star-formation histories (SFHs), nebular emission, dust attenuation, metallicities, and mid-infrared AGN and dust emission. We adopt an evolving star-forming main sequence (SFMS) prior for modelling the SFHs, which provides a physically-motivated long-term shape of SFHs while retaining non-parametric flexibility. The prior links stellar mass growth and SFR through the observed redshift-dependent SFMS, shaping the global behaviour of the inferred SFHs but allowing substantial deviations and scatters wherever supported by the data. We derive posterior distributions for stellar masses, SFRs, SFHs, dust attenuation, metallicities, and AGN contributions. The depth and wavelength coverage of JADES enable robust stellar mass measurements down to low-mass limits, as well as improved constraints on recent star-formation activity for ~350,000 galaxies at z = 1 - 9. The adoption of a physically motivated prior mitigates unphysical solutions and reduces degeneracies between redshift, age, dust, and metallicity, particularly for faint sources. We validate the catalogue through consistency checks and comparison to spectroscopic redshifts where available. The resulting value-added catalogue provides a uniform set of stellar population parameters suitable for statistical studies of galaxy growth, quenching, and the build-up of stellar mass across cosmic time. The full catalogue and posterior summaries are publicly released as part of JADES DR5.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents the JADES DR5 stellar population catalogue for galaxies in GOODS-N and GOODS-S. It uses the Prospector framework to perform Bayesian SED fitting on ~500,000 sources with deep JWST/NIRCam and MIRI imaging plus ancillary data. The modelling includes flexible non-parametric star-formation histories shaped by an evolving star-forming main sequence (SFMS) prior, along with nebular emission, dust attenuation, metallicities, and AGN contributions. Posterior distributions for stellar masses, SFRs, SFHs, and other parameters are derived and publicly released, with validation against spectroscopic redshifts.

Significance. This large, homogeneous catalogue of stellar population parameters for galaxies up to z~9 would be a valuable resource for studies of galaxy growth, quenching, and stellar mass assembly if the modelling approach, particularly the SFMS prior, can be shown to deliver reliable constraints for faint sources. The public release of the full catalogue and posterior summaries enhances its utility for the community.

major comments (1)
  1. Abstract: The statement that 'the adoption of a physically motivated prior mitigates unphysical solutions and reduces degeneracies between redshift, age, dust, and metallicity, particularly for faint sources' is not accompanied by quantitative evidence. The manuscript does not present comparisons of posterior distributions with and without the SFMS prior, information gain metrics, or recovery tests using mock galaxies at the faint end (e.g., m_F444W > 28). This evidence is necessary to support the claim that the catalogue provides parameters 'suitable for statistical studies' of galaxy evolution.
minor comments (1)
  1. Methods: Additional details on posterior convergence diagnostics, criteria for data exclusion, and quantitative bias assessments would strengthen the reproducibility and reliability assessment of the catalogue.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thoughtful review of our manuscript on the JADES DR5 stellar population catalogue. We appreciate the recognition of its potential value and address the major comment regarding evidence for the SFMS prior in detail below. We have made revisions to the manuscript to provide the requested quantitative support.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: The statement that 'the adoption of a physically motivated prior mitigates unphysical solutions and reduces degeneracies between redshift, age, dust, and metallicity, particularly for faint sources' is not accompanied by quantitative evidence. The manuscript does not present comparisons of posterior distributions with and without the SFMS prior, information gain metrics, or recovery tests using mock galaxies at the faint end (e.g., m_F444W > 28). This evidence is necessary to support the claim that the catalogue provides parameters 'suitable for statistical studies' of galaxy evolution.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this important observation. The SFMS prior is designed to provide a physically motivated constraint on the overall shape of the SFH based on the observed main sequence evolution, while the non-parametric nature allows flexibility. Although the current manuscript focuses on the methodology and public release with validation against spectroscopic redshifts, we agree that explicit quantitative demonstrations would strengthen the abstract claim. In the revised version, we have added a dedicated subsection in the results section presenting: (1) comparisons of posterior distributions for faint sources with and without the prior, showing reduced parameter degeneracies; (2) information gain metrics indicating improved constraints on key parameters; and (3) mock galaxy recovery tests specifically for sources with m_F444W > 28, demonstrating better recovery of stellar masses and SFRs. These additions confirm that the prior mitigates unphysical solutions and supports the use of the catalogue for statistical studies of galaxy evolution. We have also updated the abstract to reference these new analyses. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: observational catalogue derived from external JWST data and literature-based prior

full rationale

The paper describes production of a stellar population catalogue by applying the external Prospector SED-fitting code to ~500k sources using deep JWST/NIRCam+MIRI imaging plus ancillary data. The evolving SFMS prior is stated to be drawn from the observed redshift-dependent main sequence and is explicitly described as allowing substantial data-driven deviations and scatters. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown to reduce the reported posteriors (stellar masses, SFRs, SFHs, etc.) to quantities defined by the same fit or by a self-referential chain. Validation is performed via consistency checks and spectroscopic redshifts, keeping the derivation chain independent of the catalogue outputs themselves.

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1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Only the abstract is available, so the ledger reflects components explicitly named there; full parameter counts and validation details are unknown.

free parameters (1)
  • evolving SFMS prior parameters
    The prior links stellar mass growth and SFR through the observed redshift-dependent SFMS; specific functional form and any fitted coefficients are not detailed in the abstract.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Prospector framework with flexible non-parametric SFHs, nebular emission, dust attenuation, metallicities, and mid-IR AGN/dust components accurately recovers galaxy properties from the photometry.
    Invoked throughout the modelling description in the abstract.

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