De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies

R Maiolino, F Mannucci - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2019 - Springer
The evolution of the content of heavy elements in galaxies, the relative chemical
abundances, their spatial distribution, and how these scale with various galactic properties …

Nitrogen enhancements 440 Myr after the big bang: supersolar N/O, a tidal disruption event, or a dense stellar cluster in GN-z11?

AJ Cameron, H Katz, MP Rey… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent observations of GN-z11 with JWST/NIRSpec revealed numerous oxygen, carbon,
nitrogen, and helium emission lines at z= 10.6. Using the measured line fluxes, we derive …

JWST Identification of Extremely Low C/N Galaxies with [N/O]≳ 0.5 at z∼ 6–10 Evidencing the Early CNO-cycle Enrichment and a Connection with Globular Cluster …

Y Isobe, M Ouchi, N Tominaga… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present chemical abundance ratios of 70 star-forming galaxies at z∼ 4–10 observed by
the JWST/NIRSpec Early Release Observations, GLASS, and CEERS programs. Among the …

The MOSDEF Survey: Electron Density and Ionization Parameter at z∼ 2.3

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, M Kriek… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Using observations from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field survey, we investigate the
physical conditions of star-forming regions in z∼ 2.3 galaxies, specifically the electron …

Metal-poor star formation at z > 6 with JWST: new insight into hard radiation fields and nitrogen enrichment on 20 pc scales

MW Topping, DP Stark, P Senchyna… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Nearly a decade ago, we began to see indications that reionization-era galaxies power hard
radiation fields rarely seen at lower redshift. Most striking were detections of nebular C iv …

The Effects of Stellar Population and Gas Covering Fraction on the Emergent Lyα Emission of High-redshift Galaxies

NA Reddy, MW Topping, AE Shapley… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform joint modeling of the composite rest-frame far-UV and optical spectra of redshift
1.85≤ z≤ 3.49 star-forming galaxies to deduce key properties of the massive stars, ionized …

The MOSDEF–LRIS Survey: the interplay between massive stars and ionized gas in high-redshift star-forming galaxies

MW Topping, AE Shapley, NA Reddy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present a joint analysis of rest-ultraviolet (UV) and rest-optical spectra obtained using
Keck/LRIS and Keck/MOSFIRE for a sample of 62 star-forming galaxies at z∼ 2.3. We divide …

The FMOS-COSMOS survey of star-forming galaxies at z∼ 1.6. IV. Excitation state and chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium

D Kashino, JD Silverman, D Sanders… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the physical conditions of ionized gas in high-z star-forming galaxies using
diagnostic diagrams based on the rest-frame optical emission lines. The sample consists of …

A novel approach to correcting Te-based mass–metallicity relations

AJ Cameron, H Katz, MP Rey - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Deriving oxygen abundances from the electron temperature (hereafter the T e method) is the
gold standard for extragalactic metallicity studies. However, unresolved temperature …

SDSS IV MaNGA: Metallicity and ionisation parameter in local star-forming galaxies from Bayesian fitting to photoionisation models

M Mingozzi, F Belfiore, G Cresci, K Bundy… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We measured gas-phase metallicity, ionisation parameter, and dust extinction for a
representative sample of 1795 local star-forming galaxies using integral field spectroscopy …