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| author | Helton, Jakob M. Morrison, Jane E. Hainline, Kevin N. D'Eugenio, Francesco Rieke, George H. Alberts, Stacey Carniani, Stefano Leja, Joel Li, Yijia Rinaldi, Pierluigi Scholtz, Jan Stone, Meredith Willmer, Christopher N. A. Wu, Zihao Baker, William M. Bunker, Andrew J. Charlot, Stephane Chevallard, Jacopo Cleri, Nikko J. Curti, Mirko Curtis-Lake, Emma Egami, Eiichi Eisenstein, Daniel J. Jakobsen, Peter Ji, Zhiyuan Johnson, Benjamin D. Kumari, Nimisha Lin, Xiaojing Lyu, Jianwei Maiolino, Roberto Maseda, Michael Pérez-González, Pablo G. Rieke, Marcia J. Robertson, Brant Saxena, Aayush Sun, Fengwu Tacchella, Sandro Übler, Hannah Venturi, Giacomo Williams, Christina C. Willott, Chris Witstok, Joris Zhu, Yongda |
| author_facet | Helton, Jakob M. Morrison, Jane E. Hainline, Kevin N. D'Eugenio, Francesco Rieke, George H. Alberts, Stacey Carniani, Stefano Leja, Joel Li, Yijia Rinaldi, Pierluigi Scholtz, Jan Stone, Meredith Willmer, Christopher N. A. Wu, Zihao Baker, William M. Bunker, Andrew J. Charlot, Stephane Chevallard, Jacopo Cleri, Nikko J. Curti, Mirko Curtis-Lake, Emma Egami, Eiichi Eisenstein, Daniel J. Jakobsen, Peter Ji, Zhiyuan Johnson, Benjamin D. Kumari, Nimisha Lin, Xiaojing Lyu, Jianwei Maiolino, Roberto Maseda, Michael Pérez-González, Pablo G. Rieke, Marcia J. Robertson, Brant Saxena, Aayush Sun, Fengwu Tacchella, Sandro Übler, Hannah Venturi, Giacomo Williams, Christina C. Willott, Chris Witstok, Joris Zhu, Yongda |
| contents | JWST has discovered an early period of galaxy formation that was more vigorous than expected, which has challenged our understanding of the early Universe. In this work, we present the longest spectroscopic integration ever acquired by JWST/MIRI. This spectrum covers the brightest rest-frame optical nebular emission lines for the luminous galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 at $z > 14$. Most notably, we detect $[\mathrm{OIII}] λλ4959,5007$ at $\approx 11 σ$ and $\mathrm{H}α$ at $\approx 4 σ$ with these ultra-deep observations. These lines reveal that JADES-GS-z14-0 has low dust attenuation with a recent star-formation rate of $\mathrm{SFR} \approx 10 \pm 2\ M_{\odot} / \mathrm{yr}$, star-formation rate surface density of $Σ_{\mathrm{SFR}} \approx 23 \pm 5\ M_{\odot}/\mathrm{yr}/\mathrm{kpc}^{2}$, and ionizing photon production efficiency of $ξ_{\mathrm{ion}} \approx 10^{25.3 \pm 0.1}\ \mathrm{Hz/erg}$. Using standard strong-line diagnostics, we infer a gas-phase oxygen abundance of $[\mathrm{O/H}] \approx -1.1 \pm 0.4$ ($\approx 10\%\ Z_{\odot}$), carbon-to-oxygen ratio of $[\mathrm{C/O}] \approx -0.4 \pm 0.4$, ionization parameter of $\mathrm{log}_{10}(U) \gtrsim -2.4$, and density of $n_{\mathrm{H}} \approx 720 \pm 210\ \mathrm{cm}^{-3}$. Using detailed photoionization modeling, we instead derive $[\mathrm{O/H}] \approx -0.3_{-0.4}^{+0.4}$ ($\approx 50\%\ Z_{\odot}$) and $\mathrm{log}_{10}(U) \approx -1.5_{-0.4}^{+0.3}$. The inferred properties of JADES-GS-z14-0 are similar to those measured for similarly luminous galaxies at $z > 10$ with previous MIRI/Spectroscopy, such as GHZ2/GLASSz12, GN-z11, and MACS0647-JD1. Existing simulations are unable to reproduce the empirical and inferred properties of JADES-GS-z14-0. This work demonstrates an important step toward understanding the formation of the first stars and heavy elements in the Universe. [Abridged] |
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| spellingShingle | Ionizing Photon Production Efficiencies and Chemical Abundances at Cosmic Dawn Revealed by Ultra-Deep Rest-Frame Optical Spectroscopy of JADES-GS-z14-0 Helton, Jakob M. Morrison, Jane E. Hainline, Kevin N. D'Eugenio, Francesco Rieke, George H. Alberts, Stacey Carniani, Stefano Leja, Joel Li, Yijia Rinaldi, Pierluigi Scholtz, Jan Stone, Meredith Willmer, Christopher N. A. Wu, Zihao Baker, William M. Bunker, Andrew J. Charlot, Stephane Chevallard, Jacopo Cleri, Nikko J. Curti, Mirko Curtis-Lake, Emma Egami, Eiichi Eisenstein, Daniel J. Jakobsen, Peter Ji, Zhiyuan Johnson, Benjamin D. Kumari, Nimisha Lin, Xiaojing Lyu, Jianwei Maiolino, Roberto Maseda, Michael Pérez-González, Pablo G. Rieke, Marcia J. Robertson, Brant Saxena, Aayush Sun, Fengwu Tacchella, Sandro Übler, Hannah Venturi, Giacomo Williams, Christina C. Willott, Chris Witstok, Joris Zhu, Yongda Astrophysics of Galaxies JWST has discovered an early period of galaxy formation that was more vigorous than expected, which has challenged our understanding of the early Universe. In this work, we present the longest spectroscopic integration ever acquired by JWST/MIRI. This spectrum covers the brightest rest-frame optical nebular emission lines for the luminous galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 at $z > 14$. Most notably, we detect $[\mathrm{OIII}] λλ4959,5007$ at $\approx 11 σ$ and $\mathrm{H}α$ at $\approx 4 σ$ with these ultra-deep observations. These lines reveal that JADES-GS-z14-0 has low dust attenuation with a recent star-formation rate of $\mathrm{SFR} \approx 10 \pm 2\ M_{\odot} / \mathrm{yr}$, star-formation rate surface density of $Σ_{\mathrm{SFR}} \approx 23 \pm 5\ M_{\odot}/\mathrm{yr}/\mathrm{kpc}^{2}$, and ionizing photon production efficiency of $ξ_{\mathrm{ion}} \approx 10^{25.3 \pm 0.1}\ \mathrm{Hz/erg}$. Using standard strong-line diagnostics, we infer a gas-phase oxygen abundance of $[\mathrm{O/H}] \approx -1.1 \pm 0.4$ ($\approx 10\%\ Z_{\odot}$), carbon-to-oxygen ratio of $[\mathrm{C/O}] \approx -0.4 \pm 0.4$, ionization parameter of $\mathrm{log}_{10}(U) \gtrsim -2.4$, and density of $n_{\mathrm{H}} \approx 720 \pm 210\ \mathrm{cm}^{-3}$. Using detailed photoionization modeling, we instead derive $[\mathrm{O/H}] \approx -0.3_{-0.4}^{+0.4}$ ($\approx 50\%\ Z_{\odot}$) and $\mathrm{log}_{10}(U) \approx -1.5_{-0.4}^{+0.3}$. The inferred properties of JADES-GS-z14-0 are similar to those measured for similarly luminous galaxies at $z > 10$ with previous MIRI/Spectroscopy, such as GHZ2/GLASSz12, GN-z11, and MACS0647-JD1. Existing simulations are unable to reproduce the empirical and inferred properties of JADES-GS-z14-0. This work demonstrates an important step toward understanding the formation of the first stars and heavy elements in the Universe. [Abridged] |
| title | Ionizing Photon Production Efficiencies and Chemical Abundances at Cosmic Dawn Revealed by Ultra-Deep Rest-Frame Optical Spectroscopy of JADES-GS-z14-0 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19695 |