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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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Caption: Figure 2.

Left: Hα-based SFRs vs. stellar mass for our CECILIA Faint sample (pink squares and shaded rectangles), derived using a metallicity-dependent SFR conversion. The two CECILIA Faint galaxies without continuum detections are shown as shaded pink bands indicating their 68% probability ranges of possible masses along with the best estimates of their SFRs and associated uncertainties (see Section 3.1). For consistency, we recalculate the SFRs of the z ∼ 2.56 stack from R. F. Trainor et al. (2016, green circle) and the KBSS LBGs (A. L. Strom et al. 2017; gray circles) using the same method. For comparison, we also show the Hα-based SFR–M relation for 1.4 < z < 2.7 galaxies from L. Clarke et al. (2024), as well as individual lensed dwarf galaxies at z ∼ 2–3 selected as [O III] emitters in JWST/NIRISS spectroscopy by M. Li et al. (2023, teal diamonds). We generally find consistency between the CECILIA Faint sources and these comparison samples in the SFR–M* plane. Right: the MEx diagram for the CECILIA Faint galaxies and the same comparison samples as in the left panel. The gray dashed contours represent SDSS z ∼ 0 galaxies. We include the original S. Juneau et al. (2014) star-forming/AGN boundaries (purple dashed) and the redshift-adjusted versions shifted by ﹩{\rm{\Delta }}\mathrm{log}{M}_{* }=0.75﹩ dex from A. L. Coil et al. (2015), appropriate for z ∼ 2 galaxies. The CECILIA Faint galaxies broadly agree with the M. Li et al. (2023) sample at M* > 108 M, but have significantly lower O3 ratios at lower masses.

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