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The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public Near-Infrared Slitless Survey Epoch 1 (NGDEEP-NISS1): Extra-Galactic Star-formation and Active Galactic Nuclei at 0.5 < z < 3.6
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Pirzkal, Nor; Rothberg, Barry; Papovich, Casey; Shen, Lu; Leung, Gene C. K.; Bagley, Micaela B.; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Vanderhoof, Brittany N.; Lotz, Jennifer M.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Hathi, Nimish P.; Cheng, Yingjie; Cleri, Nikko J.; Grogin, Norman A.; Yung, L. Y. Aaron; Dickinson, Mark; Ferguson, Henry C.; Gardner, Jonathan P.; Jung, Intae; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Ryan, Russell; Simons, Raymond C.; Ravindranath, Swara; Berg, Danielle A.; Backhaus, Bren E.; Casey, Caitlin M.; Castellano, Marco; Ortiz, Óscar A. Chávez; Chworowsky, Katherine; Cox, Isabella G.; Davé, Romeel; Davis, Kelcey; Estrada-Carpenter, Vicente; Fontana, Adriano; Fujimoto, Seiji; Giavalisco, Mauro; Grazian, Andrea; Hutchison, Taylor A.; Jaskot, Anne E.; Kewley, Lisa J.; Kirkpatrick, Allison; Kocevski, Dale D.; Larson, Rebecca L.; Matharu, Jasleen; Natarajan, Priyamvada; Pentericci, Laura; Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Snyder, Gregory F.; Somerville, Rachel S.; Trump, Jonathan R.; Wilkins, Stephen M.
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The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) survey program was designed specifically to include Near Infrared Slitless Spectroscopic observations (NGDEEP-NISS) to detect multiple emission lines in as many galaxies as possible and across a wide redshift range using the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS). We present early results obtained from the the first set of observations (Epoch 1, 50$\%$ of the allocated orbits) of this program (NGDEEP-NISS1). Using a set of independently developed calibration files designed to deal with a complex combination of overlapping spectra, multiple position angles, and multiple cross filters and grisms, in conjunction with a robust and proven algorithm for quantifying contamination from overlapping dispersed spectra, NGDEEP-NISS1 has achieved a 3$\sigma$ sensitivity limit of 2 $\times$ 10$^{-18}$ erg/s/cm$^2$. We demonstrate the power of deep wide field slitless spectroscopy (WFSS) to characterize the star-formation rates, and metallicity ([OIII]/H$\beta$), and dust content, of galaxies at $1