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Caption: Figure 8.
Constraints on physical properties using photoionization modeling. We utilize Cue (Y. Li et al. 2024, 2025) to simultaneously infer various physical properties for JADES-GS-z14-0 by modeling observations of nebular emission lines. Lower left: the joint posterior distributions are shown for ionizing photon production efficiency, gas-phase oxygen abundance, carbon-to-oxygen ratio, nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio, ionization parameter, and electron density. The contours in the off-diagonal panels represent the 68%, 95%, and 99% confidence intervals of the modeling. The dashed and dotted lines in the diagonal panels represent the medians and 68% confidence intervals. The black solid lines represent the properties inferred using the standard strong-line diagnostics described in Section 5. Upper right: the predicted line luminosities are compared with observed quantities, demonstrating consistency between the model predictions and observations. All panels: the source of the intrinsic ionizing spectrum (ξion) along with the state of the interstellar medium (U and nH) are well constrained by existing spectroscopic observations while the chemical abundance patterns (N/O and C/O) are poorly constrained by the data. The results from our emission line modeling demonstrate extreme ionization conditions and relatively high metallicities within JADES-GS-z14-0.
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