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CECILIA: Gas-phase Physical Conditions and Multielement Chemistry at Cosmic Noon

  • Authors: Noah S. J. Rogers, Allison L. Strom, Gwen C. Rudie, Ryan F. Trainor, Caroline von Raesfeld, Menelaos Raptis, Nathalie A. Korhonen Cuestas, Tim B. Miller, Charles C. Steidel, Michael V. Maseda, Yuguang Chen, 昱光 陈, David R. Law

Noah S. J. Rogers et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 997 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Density trends in the CECILIA galaxies (red circles) and local EELGs (light-blue squares). Each point represents the simultaneous measurement of ne[O II] and ne[S II], and the dotted line reflects equivalent densities. The dark-red and light-blue stars are the average ne measured in CECILIA and at z = 0, respectively. The top panel plots the histogram distribution of 23 ne[S II] measurements in the CECILIA sample, where the red bins represent the galaxies with simultaneous ne[O II]. In agreement with previous findings, the direct measurements of ne[S II] and ne[O II] from the CECILIA galaxies indicate that the ISM density at Cosmic Noon is elevated with respect to the ne measured in the local Universe. Furthermore, ne[S II] and ne[O II] show good agreement, as may be expected for two ions primarily originating in the same ionization zone.

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