Nitrogen abundances in star-forming galaxies 2.2 Gyr after the Big Bang are not elevated
University of Geneva(日内瓦大学);CNRS, IRAP(法国国家科学研究中心,天体物理研究所);Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine(乌克兰国家科学院博戈留博夫理论物理研究所);California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院);University of California, Riverside(加利福尼亚大学河滨分校);University of California, Los Angeles(加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校);Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)(奥地利科学技术研究院);The University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校);University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学);Johns Hopkins University(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学)
D. Schaerer, Y. I. Izotov, R. Marques-Chaves, C. C. Steidel, N. Reddy, A. E. Shapley, S. Mascia, J. Chisholm, S. R. Flury, N. Guseva, T. Heckman, A. Henry, A. K… 展开作者
D. Schaerer, Y. I. Izotov, R. Marques-Chaves, C. C. Steidel, N. Reddy, A. E. Shapley, S. Mascia, J. Chisholm, S. R. Flury, N. Guseva, T. Heckman, A. Henry, A. K. Inoue, I. Jung, H. Kusakabe, K. Mawatari, P. Oesch, G. Oestlin, L. Pentericci, N. Roy, A. Saldana-Lopez, R. Sato, E. Vanzella, A. Verhamme, B. Wang
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7 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics (after 1st revision)
Using deep medium-resolution JWST rest-optical spectra of a sample of typical star-forming galaxies (Lyman break galaxies and Lyman-$α$ emitters) from the LyC22 survey at $z \sim 3$, we determined the nebular abundances of N, O, and Ne relative to H for a subsample of 25 objects with the direct method, based on auroral [OIII]4363 line detections. Our measurements increases the number of accurate N/O determinations at $z \sim 2-4$ using a homogeneous approach. We found a mean value of $\log({\rm N/O})=-1.29^{+0.25}_{-0.21} $ over a metallicity range 12+log(O/H)=7.5 to 8.44. The observed N/O ratio and scatter are indistinguishable from that observed in low-z galaxies and HII regions over the same metallicity range, showing thus no redshift evolution of N/O for typical galaxies over a significant fraction of cosmic time. We also show that typical $z \sim 3$ galaxies show a similar offset in the BPT diagram as galaxies from the low-z Lyman Continuum Survey (LzLCS), when compared to the average of SDSS galaxies, and show that this offset is not due to enhanced nitrogen abundances. Our results establish a basis for future studies of the evolution of N and O at higher redshifts.
Only Nitrogen-Enhanced Galaxies Have Detectable UV Nitrogen Emission Lines at High Redshift
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学天文与天体物理研究学院);Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校天文学系);Cosmic Frontier Center, The University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校宇宙前沿中心)
CLASSY XII: Nitrogen Enrichment Shaped by Gas Density and Feedback
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学天文研究所);Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校天文学系);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia ‘Ettore Majorana’, Università degli Studi di Catania(卡塔尼亚大学埃托雷·马约纳物理与天文系);Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University(西北大学天体物理学跨学科探索与研究中心);Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota(明尼苏达大学天体物理研究所);Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)(安达卢西亚天体物理研究所);Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS(巴黎天文台);Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学天体物理科学中心);Stockholm University(斯德哥尔摩大学);Centre for Astrophysics Research, Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire(赫特福德大学物理、天文和数学中心天体物理研究中心);Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara(加州大学圣巴巴拉分校物理系);Swinburne University of Technology(斯威本科技大学);Carnegie Observatories(卡内基观测站);Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(墨西哥国立自治大学天体物理研究所);Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学天文与天体物理研究学院);Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian(哈佛史密森尼天体物理中心)
Tracing nitrogen enrichment across cosmic time with JWST
Università di Firenze(佛罗伦萨大学);INAF – Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory(意大利国家天体物理研究所阿切特里天文台);European Southern Observatory(欧洲南方天文台);Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学卡文迪许实验室);Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学卡弗里宇宙学研究所)
Very Massive Stars and High N/O: A Tale of the Nitrogen-enriched Super Star Cluster in the Sunburst Arc
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto(加拿大理论天体物理研究所,多伦多大学);David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto(多伦多大学大卫·邓普克天文与天体物理系)
SPURS: An Ultra-deep View Inside the Compact, Nitrogen-Enriched Nuclei of Little Red Dots
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交大东京镭研究所);School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学物理与天文学院);State Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学暗物质物理国家重点实验室);Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校天文学系);Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)(宇宙黎明中心(DAWN));Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学尼尔斯·玻尔研究所);Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis(加州大学戴维斯分校物理与天文系)
Nearly pristine gas in a galaxy 1 billion years after the Big Bang
University of Heidelberg(海德堡大学);Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie(马克斯·普朗克天文学研究所);Durham University(杜伦大学);INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste(意大利国家天体物理研究所的里雅斯特天文台);International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab(国际双子座天文台/美国国家科学基金会NOIR实验室);Indian Institute of Technology Indore(印度印多尔理工学院)
JADES: Evolution of nitrogen abundances in star-forming galaxies from z ~ 1.5-7
Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)(宇宙黎明中心);Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学尼尔斯·玻尔研究所);Department of Physics, University of Oxford(牛津大学物理系);Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile(智利大学天文学系);Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London(伦敦大学学院物理与天文系);Scuola Normale Superiore(比萨高等师范学院);Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris(索邦大学,法国国家科学研究中心,UMR 7095,巴黎天体物理学研究所)
JADES 研究了 z ~ 1.5-7 星系中氮丰度的演化,发现低金属丰度系统中氮丰度与恒星形成率和质量相关,而高金属丰度系统中则与质量相关,且极端恒星burst 导致极端氮增强。
1000-10,000 M$_\odot$ Primordial Stars Created the Nitrogen Excess in GS 3073 at $z = 5.55$
University of Virginia(弗吉尼亚大学);Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian(哈佛-史密森尼天体物理中心);Portsmouth University(朴茨茅斯大学);United Arab Emirates University(阿拉伯联合酋长国大学);Monash University(蒙纳士大学)
研究指出 GS 3073 中高达 0.46 的极端 N/O 比例无法由已知恒星解释,提出 1000-10,000 M$_\odot$ 原初恒星是唯一能解释该星系氮超丰及 C/O、Ne/O 比例的候选者,为宇宙黎明时期存在超大质量 Pop III 恒星提供了首个确凿证据。
A Tale of Two Origins: In-Situ versus Accreted Nitrogen-Rich Field Stars in the MW
School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学物理学院);CSST Science Center for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area(粤港澳大湾区嫦娥科学中心);Universidad Católica del Norte(北天主教学会大学);Department of Astronomy, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University(斯德哥尔摩大学阿尔巴诺瓦大学中心天文学系);Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(加那利天体物理学研究所);Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna(拉古纳大学天体物理学系);CAS Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院国家天文台光学天文重点实验室);School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University(南京大学天文与空间科学学院)
On the importance of the IGM/CGM enrichment in determining chemical abundances during the first 600 Myr
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sam Houston State University(萨姆休斯顿州立大学物理与天文学系);Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota(明尼苏达大学明尼苏达天体物理研究所)
Towards Reconciling Reionization with JWST: The Role of Bright Galaxies and Strong Feedback
University of Maryland, College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);University of Zurich(苏黎世大学);University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学);University of the Western Cape(西开普大学);New Mexico State University(新墨西哥州立大学);University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学);Technical University of Denmark(丹麦技术大学)
Origins of Extreme Emission-Line Ratios in z > 3 Galaxies: Insights from the Lumen Model
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)(洛桑联邦理工学院);INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste(意大利国家天体物理研究所的里雅斯特天文台);Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris(索邦大学、法国国家科学研究中心、巴黎天体物理研究所);Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute(平顿研究所计算天体物理学中心);University of Hertfordshire(赫特福德大学);INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri(意大利国家天体物理研究所阿尔切特里天文台);Département d’Astronomie, Université de Genève(日内瓦大学天文学系)
An Ultra-Faint, Chemically Primitive Galaxy Forming in the Reionization Era
Kanazawa University(金泽大学);National Astronomical Observatory of Japan(日本国立天文台);The University of Tokyo(东京大学);SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)(综合研究大学院大学);Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo(东京大学宇宙物质量子研究所(WPI));Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)(意大利国家天体物理研究所);University of Cambridge(剑桥大学)
Connecting JWST discovered N/O-enhanced galaxies to globular clusters: Evidence from chemical imprints
Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学宇宙学卡弗里研究所);Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学卡文迪许实验室);Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学天文学研究所);Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London(伦敦大学学院物理与天文系);Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University(早稻田大学理工学研究科理工学研究院);Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago(芝加哥大学天文与天体物理系);Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago(芝加哥大学宇宙物理学卡弗里研究所);Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago(芝加哥大学恩里科·费米研究所);Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik(马克斯·普朗克地外物理学研究所)
The MOSDEF Survey: Excitation Properties of $z\sim 2.3$ Star-forming Galaxies
本文利用MOSFIRE深演化场巡天(MOSDEF)的早期观测结果,对z~2.3星系的激发特性进行了研究。由于覆盖了全套强静止框架光学发射线,MOSDEF提供了一个遥远恒星形成星系代表性样本的静止框架光谱的前所未有的视图。我们研究了z~2.3 MOSDEF星系在多重发射线诊断图中的位置。这些图包括[OIII]/Hb对[NII]/Ha和[OIII]/Hb对[SII]/Ha“BPT”图,以及O_32对R_23激发图。我们恢复著名的偏移量的恒星形成序列的高红移星系在[OIII]/血红蛋白与[NII]/哈BPT图相对于SDSS恒星形成星系。然而,在z~2处,我们的静止坐标系光学选择样本的位移不如静止坐标系UV选择和发射线选择星系的显著。此外,我们发现,偏移量是质量相关的,只出现在z~2.3 MOSDEF样本的低质量的一半,在那里的星系被转移到更高的[NII]/Ha在固定的[OIII]/Hb。在[OIII]/Hb vs. [SII]/Ha和O_32 vs. R_23图中,我们发现z~2.3星系的分布类似于局域星系,因此将[OIII]/Hb vs. [NII]/Ha BPT图中的移动归因于低质量(M_*<10^10 M_sun)高红移星系中N/O丰度比的升高。N/O比值的变化使基于氮线的氧丰度指标在高红移处的使用受到质疑,但O_32-R_23图中激发序列与红移的明显不变性为在宽红移范围内使用O_…
The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: NIRSpec IFU Data Processing and Spatially-resolved Views of Chemical Enrichment in Normal Galaxies at z=4-6
University of Toronto(多伦多大学);Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics(邓普尔天文学与天体物理学研究所);California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院);The University of Tokyo(东京大学);University of California, Riverside(加利福尼亚大学河滨分校);The University of Western Australia(西澳大学);Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学);Université Côte d'Azur(蔚蓝海岸大学);Université Paris-Saclay(巴黎萨克雷大学);Hiroshima University(广岛大学);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);Gemini Observatory(双子星天文台);University of California, Davis(加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校);National Centre for Nuclear Research(国家核研究中心);University of Bologna(博洛尼亚大学);University of Hawaii(夏威夷大学)
The Collective Voice of Ly$α$ Emitters: Insights from JWST Stacked Spectroscopy
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma(意大利国家天体物理研究所罗马天文台);IFPU - Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe(宇宙基础物理研究所);Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik(马克斯·普朗克天体物理研究所);Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学卡弗里宇宙学研究所);Cavendish Laboratory – Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学卡文迪许实验室天体物理学组);Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB), CSIC-INTA(西班牙国家航空航天技术研究所/西班牙高等科学研究理事会天体生物学中心)
Low [O/Fe] Ratio in a Luminous Galaxy at the Early Cosmic Epoch ($z>10$): Signature of Short Delay Time or Bright Hypernovae/Pair-Instability Supernovae?
The dark side of early galaxies: $\texttt{geko}$ uncovers dark-matter fractions at $z\sim4-6$
University of Cambridge(剑桥大学);Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学卡弗里宇宙学研究所);Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学卡文迪许实验室);Department of Physics, University of Oxford(牛津大学物理系);University of Oxford(牛津大学);Centre for Astrophysics Research, Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire(赫特福德大学物理、天文与数学系天体物理学研究中心);University of Hertfordshire(赫特福德大学);Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie(马克斯·普朗克天文学研究所);Steward Observatory, University of Arizona(亚利桑那大学斯图尔德天文台);University of Arizona(亚利桑那大学)