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Discovery of 17 Transients (z_host=0.520-2.325) in the JADES GOODS-N JWST/NIRCam Images

Paper abstract: We report the discovery of 17 transient sources likely at redshifts z = 0.520-2.325, each discovered in the GOODS-North (GOODS-N) field using the 9-band JWST/NIRCam imaging data obtained by the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). These transients appear as point sources in the NIRCam Short-Wavelength (SW) images but are not seen in any of the archived GOODS-S HST images over the same wavelength range.