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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 6.

Left: direct gas-phase O/H vs. z measured in 19 CECILIA galaxies. The color of the circles represents the number of direct Te measured in each galaxy: red circles have two or more direct Te; yellow circles have a single Te. The solar O/H ratio is plotted as a dashed green line and shaded area. While the highest-z galaxies tend to show low O/H, several CECILIA galaxies show gas-phase O/H consistent with the solar ratio at z ≳ 2. Right: the N2-BPT is reproduced with the Te sample, color-coded by 12 + log(O/H). The CECILIA sample follows the expected trends in this relation: galaxies with low [N II]/Hα and high [O III]/Hβ exhibit relatively low O/H, and O/H increases with [N II]/Hα as [O III]/Hβ decreases.

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