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 …

The GLASS-JWST early release science program. I. Survey design and release plans

T Treu, G Roberts-Borsani, M Bradac… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science (hereafter GLASS-JWST-ERS) Program
will obtain and make publicly available the deepest extragalactic data of the ERS campaign …

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 …

Direct T e-based metallicities of z= 2–9 galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec: empirical metallicity calibrations applicable from reionization to cosmic noon

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, MW Topping… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report detections of the [O iii] λ4364 auroral emission line for 16 galaxies at z= 2.1–8.7,
measured from JWST/NIRSpec observations obtained as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early …

The physical conditions of emission-line galaxies at cosmic dawn from JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy in the SMACS 0723 early release observations

JR Trump, PA Haro, RC Simons… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present rest-frame optical emission-line flux ratio measurements for five z> 5 galaxies
observed by the James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) in …

Bubbles and outflows: The novel JWST/NIRSpec view of the z= 1.59 obscured quasar XID2028

G Cresci, G Tozzi, M Perna, M Brusa… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Quasar feedback in the form of powerful outflows is invoked as a key mechanism to quench
star formation in galaxies, although direct observational evidence is still scarce and debated …

Reconciling the stellar and nebular spectra of high-redshift galaxies

CC Steidel, AL Strom, M Pettini, GC Rudie… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a combined analysis of rest-frame far-UV (FUV; 1000–2000 Å) and rest-frame
optical (3600–7000 Å) composite spectra formed from very deep Keck/LRIS and …

Strong nebular line ratios in the spectra of z∼ 2–3 star forming galaxies: first results from KBSS-MOSFIRE

CC Steidel, GC Rudie, AL Strom, M Pettini… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present initial results of a deep near-IR spectroscopic survey covering the 15 fields of the
Keck Baryonic Structure Survey using the recently commissioned MOSFIRE spectrometer on …

The MOSDEF survey: direct-method metallicities and ISM conditions at z ∼ 1.5–3.5

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, NA Reddy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present detections of [O iii] λ4363 and direct-method metallicities for star-forming
galaxies at z= 1.7–3.6. We combine new measurements from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution …

A cosmic UV/X-ray background model update

CA Faucher-Giguere - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present an updated model of the cosmic ionizing background from the UV to the X-rays.
Relative to our previous model, the new model provides a better match to a large number of …