SPAM: Survey Overview and JWST/NIRCam Multi-Band Photometry Catalog

Overview & Synopsis

We present the Star-formation from Photometry through the Addition of Medium-bands (SPAM) survey, a 62.9 hr JWST/NIRCam imaging program to add ten new filters, nine medium-band filters, and one broad-band filter to the CEERS legacy dataset. We describe the observation strategy, present the data, and detail the data-reduction process. We include a complete reduction of imaging in the legacy CEERS footprint, inclusive of all publicly available photometric parallel and GO observations within the legacy CEERS footprint. We present a multi-band photometric and photometric redshift catalog which includes all medium- and broad-band filters available on NIRCam. We find that adding medium bands from the SPAM and MINERVA programs improves photometric redshifts. We discuss how these data advance the SPAM survey's key science goals: better-constrained photometric redshifts, identification of high-redshift overdensity members, improved recovery of emission-line strengths, and more accurate star formation histories.