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Evidence for a Shallow Evolution in the Volume Densities of Massive Galaxies at z = 4–8 from CEERS

  • Authors: Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Elizabeth J. McGrath, Kartheik G. Iyer, Casey Papovich, Mark Dickinson, Anthony J. Taylor, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Micaela B. Bagley, Bren E. Backhaus, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Yingjie Cheng, Nikko J. Cleri, Justin W. Cole, M. C. Cooper, Luca Costantin, Avishai Dekel, Maximilien Franco, Seiji Fujimoto, Christopher C. Hayward, Benne W. Holwerda, Marc Huertas-Company, Michaela Hirschmann, Taylor A. Hutchison, Anton M. Koekemoer, Rebecca L. Larson, Zhaozhou Li, Arianna S. Long, Ray A. Lucas, Nor Pirzkal, Giulia Rodighiero, Rachel S. Somerville, Brittany N. Vanderhoof, Alexander de la Vega, Stephen M. Wilkins, Guang Yang, Jorge A. Zavala

Katherine Chworowsky et al 2024 The Astronomical Journal 168 .

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Examples of spectroscopic observations of sources within our sample of ﹩{\mathrm{log}}_{10}({M}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })\gt 10﹩ galaxies. The top five panels show spectra for the five sources with NIRSpec PRISM observations (one additional source, presented in Larson et al. 2023, has a NIRSpec grating redshift). Each galaxy shows clearly detected [O III] doublet + Hβ and Hα emission at λ rest = 5007 Å and 6563 Å, respectively. The bottom eight panels show line detections made with the GRISM, with the top row showing Hα and the bottom row shows the [O III] doublet + Hβ. The red (blue) shows the row (column) dispersion. Here we smooth the GRISM data using a Gaussian filter with a width of one spectral element for clarity. 28 sources have clear emission lines providing robust spectroscopic redshift confirmation of many of the sources in our sample.

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