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Ionizing Photon Production Efficiencies and Chemical Abundances at Cosmic Dawn Revealed by Ultradeep Rest-frame Optical Spectroscopy of JADES-GS-z14-0

  • Authors: Jakob M. Helton, Jane E. Morrison, Kevin N. Hainline, Francesco D'Eugenio, George H. Rieke, Stacey Alberts, Stefano Carniani, Joel Leja, Yijia Li, 轶佳 李, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Jan Scholtz, Meredith Stone, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Zihao Wu, William M. Baker, Andrew J. Bunker, Stephane Charlot, Jacopo Chevallard, Nikko J. Cleri, Mirko Curti, Emma Curtis-Lake, Eiichi Egami, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Peter Jakobsen, Zhiyuan Ji, Benjamin D. Johnson, Nimisha Kumari, Xiaojing Lin, Jianwei Lyu, Roberto Maiolino, Michael Maseda, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Marcia J. Rieke, Brant Robertson, Aayush Saxena, Fengwu Sun, Sandro Tacchella, Hannah Übler, Giacomo Venturi, Christina C. Williams, Chris Willott, Joris Witstok, Yongda Zhu

Jakob M. Helton et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

Carbon-to-oxygen ratio versus gas-phase oxygen abundance. The inferred chemical abundance patterns for JADES-GS-z14-0 are compared with the same three samples of star-forming galaxies at z > 3 from Figure 4. There are two measurements provided for JADES-GS-z14-0; one at low-metallicity from standard strong-line diagnostics (Section 5.4) and the other at high-metallicity from detailed photoionization modeling (Section 6). No dust corrections have been applied to any of these galaxies. With the strong-line diagnostics, the inferred abundance patterns are highly sensitive to the assumed electron temperature. We also compare with the predicted yields from core-collapse supernovae (N. Tominaga et al. 2007) as illustrated by the gray shaded region and those from galactic chemical evolution models (C. Kobayashi et al. 2020) as illustrated by the solid black line. The inferred chemical abundance pattern for JADES-GS-z14-0 is consistent with predicted yields from core-collapse supernovae for a young, low-metallicity galaxy.

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