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Recent JWST observations with superb angular resolution have revealed the existence of clumpy galaxies at high redshift through the detection of rest-frame optical emission lines. We use the FirstLight simulation to study the properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Yurina Nakazato , Daniel Ceverino , Naoki Yoshida

We perform a simulation with Galacticus, a semi-analytical galaxy formation model, to predict the number counts of H$\alpha$ and [OIII] emitting galaxies. With a state-of-the-art N-body simulation, UNIT, we first calibrate Galacticus with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-28 Zhongxu Zhai , Andrew Benson , Yun Wang , Gustavo Yepes , Chia-Hsun Chuang

We present a study of the [OIII]5007/[OII]3727 (O32) ratios of star-forming galaxies drawn from MUSE data spanning a redshift range 0.28<z<0.85. Recently discovered Lyman continuum (LyC) emitters have extremely high oxygen line ratios:…

Over the last decade, observations of the cool interstellar medium in distant galaxies via molecular and atomic fine structure line emission has gone from a curious look into a few extreme, rare objects, to a mainstream tool to study galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris Carilli , Fabian Walter

We use three semi-analytic models (SAMs) of galaxy formation and evolution, run on the same 1$h^{-1}$Gpc MultiDark Planck2 cosmological simulation, to investigate the properties of [OII] emission line galaxies in the redshift range…

This paper presents the first results from a model for chemical evolution that can be applied to N-body cosmological simulations and quantitatively compared to measured stellar abundances from large astronomical surveys. This model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-29 Brian D. Crosby , Brian W. O'Shea , Timothy C. Beers , Jason Tumlinson

Current models of the formation of first galaxies predict low masses and faint objects at extremely high redshifts, z=9-15. However, the first observations of this epoch indicate a higher-than-expected number of bright (sometimes massive)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-24 Daniel Ceverino , Yurina Nakazato , Naoki Yoshida , Ralf Klessen , Simon Glover

A new generation of cosmological experiments will spectroscopically detect the H$\alpha$ line from ELGs at optical/near-infrared frequencies. Other emission lines will also be present, which may come from the same H$\alpha$ sample or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-02 José Fonseca , Stefano Camera

Promising methods for studying galaxy evolution rely on optical emission line width measurements to compare intermediate-redshift objects to galaxies with equivalent masses at the present epoch. However, emission lines can be misleading. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elizabeth Barton Gillespie , Liese van Zee

Recent ALMA observations reveal diffuse [CII] emission (``[CII] halos") extending to $\sim 10\,$kpc in galaxies at $4 < z < 6$. These measurements provide new insights into high-redshift galactic ecosystems and processes that drive metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-06 Lun-Jun Liu , Guochao Sun , Andreas L. Faisst , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère , Adam Lidz

We compute synthetic, rest-frame optical and ultraviolet (UV) emission-line properties of galaxy populations at redshifts from z$\approx$0 to z=8 in a full cosmological framework. We achieve this by coupling, in post-processing, the…

We utilize medium-resolution JWST/NIRSpec observations of 164 galaxies at $z=2.0-9.3$ from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey to investigate the evolution of the excitation and ionization properties of galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Ryan L. Sanders , Alice E. Shapley , Michael W. Topping , Naveen A. Reddy , Gabriel B. Brammer

We examine the luminosity function (LF) of [OII] emission-line galaxies in the high-resolution cosmological simulation MassiveBlack-II (MBII). From the spectral energy distribution of each galaxy, we select a sub-sample of star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 KwangHo Park , Tiziana Di Matteo , Shirley Ho , Rupert Croft , Stephen M. Wilkins , Yu Feng , Nishikanta Khandai

Although measuring the gas metallicity in galaxies at various redshifts is crucial to constrain galaxy evolutionary scenarios, only rest-frame optical emission lines have been generally used to measure the metallicity. This has prevented us…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tohru Nagao , Roberto Maiolino , Alessandro Marconi , Hideo Matsuhara

Rest-frame UV emission lines offer the possibility to directly image the gas around high-redshift galaxies with upcoming optical instruments. We use a suite of large, hydrodynamical simulations to predict the nature and detectability of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Serena Bertone , Joop Schaye

We discuss the chemical properties of a sample of UV-selected intermediate-redshift (0 < z < 0.4) galaxies in the context of their physical nature and star formation history. This work represents an extension of our previous studies (Treyer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Contini , M. A. Treyer , M. Sullivan , R. S. Ellis

We present the results of near-infrared spectroscopic observations for a sample of 12 star-forming galaxies at 1.0<z<1.5, drawn from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey. H-beta, [OIII], H-alpha, and [NII] emission-line fluxes are measured for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alice E. Shapley , Alison Coil , Chung-Pei Ma , Kevin Bundy

We have made the first detections of the 88 micron [OIII] line from galaxies in the early Universe, detecting the line from the lensed AGN/starburst composite systems APM 08279+5255 at z = 3.911 and SMM J02399-0136 at z = 2.8076. The line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-12 C. Ferkinhoff , S. Hailey-Dunsheath , T. Nikola , S. C. Parshley , G. J. Stacey , D. J. Benford , J. G. Staguhn

Neutral-oxygen [OI] far-infrared emission lines at $63\mu$m and $145\mu$m are powerful probes of the physical conditions in the interstellar medium, although they have not been fully exploited in high-redshift studies. We investigate the…

The latest ALMA and JWST observations provide new information on the birth and evolution of galaxies in the early Universe, at the epoch of reionization. Of particular importance are measurements at redshift $ z > 5$ of their cold-gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-15 Benedetta Casavecchia , Umberto Maio , Céline Péroux , Benedetta Ciardi