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CEERS Key Paper. VIII. Emission-line Ratios from NIRSpec and NIRCam Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy at z > 2

Backhaus, Bren E.
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Trump, Jonathan R.
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Pirzkal, Nor
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February 1, 2024
The Astrophysical Journal

We use James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (NIRCam WFSS) and the Near-Infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release survey to measure rest-frame optical emission-line ratios of 155 galaxies at z > 2. The blind NIRCam grism observations include a sample of galaxies with bright emission lines that were not observed on the NIRSpec masks. We study the changes of the H alpha, [O III]/H beta, and [Ne III]/[O II] emission lines in terms of redshift by comparing to lower-redshift SDSS, CLEAR, and MOSDEF samples. We find a significant (>3 sigma) correlation between [O III]/H beta with redshift, while [Ne III]/[O II] has a marginal (2 sigma) correlation with redshift. We compare [O III]/H beta and [Ne III]/[O II] to stellar mass and H beta SFR. We find that both emission-line ratios have a correlation with H beta SFR and an anticorrelation with stellar mass across the redshifts 0 < z < 9. Comparison with MAPPINGS V models indicates that these trends are consistent with lower metallicity and higher ionization in low-mass and high-SFR galaxies. We additionally compare to IllustrisTNG predictions and find that they effectively describe the highest [O III]/H beta ratios observed in our sample, without the need to invoke MAPPINGS models with significant shock ionization components.

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DOI
10.3847/1538-4357/ad1520
Web of Science ID

WOS:001173963000001

Author(s)
Backhaus, Bren E.
Trump, Jonathan R.
Pirzkal, Nor
Barro, Guillermo
Finkelstein, Steven L.
Arrabal Haro, Pablo
Simons, Raymond C.
Wessner, Jessica
Cleri, Nikko J.
Bagley, Micaela B.
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Date Issued

2024-02-01

Publisher

Iop Publishing Ltd

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

962

Issue

2

Start page

195

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Emission Line Galaxies

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Galaxy Evolution

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Galaxies

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Active Galaxies

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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GALSPEC  
FunderGrant Number

NASAhttps://doi.org/10.13039/100007710

JWST-ERS-01345

NASA

CAREER-1945546

NSF

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April 3, 2024
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