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CECILIA: The Mass–Metallicity Relation of Low-mass Galaxies at Cosmic Noon

  • Authors: Menelaos Raptis, Gwen C. Rudie, Ryan F. Trainor, Noah S. J. Rogers, Allison L. Strom, Nathalie A. Korhonen Cuestas, Caroline von Raesfeld, Ye Lin, Ojima Ojodomo Abraham, Christopher Chapman, Charles C. Steidel, Michael V. Maseda

Menelaos Raptis et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 .

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MZR for our CECILIA Faint sample compared to individual 1.8 < z < 3.4 lensed dwarf galaxies from M. Li et al. (2023), with metallicities using the O3-based calibration of K. Nakajima et al. (2022), with both the lower- and upper-branch solutions for each source (upward and downward calculated teal triangles, respectively). Open triangles connected by gray lines denote cases where the measured O3 lies above the shown peak of the K. Nakajima et al. (2022) calibration curve, as described in the text. At masses M > 108 M, all CECILIA Faint galaxies have N2 values consistent with the high-metallicity branch solution, and these galaxies appear to agree well with the high-metallicity branch O3-based metallicity inferences for the M. Li et al. (2023) sample. At lower masses, where all CECILIA faint galaxies have N2 values consistent with the low-metallicity K. Nakajima et al. (2022) solution, the CECILIA Faint sample exhibits systematically lower inferred O/H compared to the M. Li et al. (2023) sample, regardless of which branch is selected.

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