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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 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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