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We present nitrogen abundance measurements based on the low-ionisation [NII]6583 emission line for 588 galaxies between 1.5<z<7.0 from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). We detect the temperature-sensitive [OIII]4363…

Using deep medium-resolution JWST rest-optical spectra of a sample of typical star-forming galaxies (Lyman break galaxies and Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters) from the LyC22 survey at $z \sim 3$, we determined the nebular abundances of N, O, and Ne…

We present measurements of the gas-phase Oxygen and Nitrogen abundances obtained by applying the direct method to JWST NIRspec $R\sim1000$ spectroscopy for 6 galaxies at redshift greater than 3. Our measurements are based on rest-frame…

We present chemical abundance ratios of 8 nitrogen-rich ([N/O]$>0.3$) galaxies at $z\sim 6-12$ identified by the first 4 years of the JWST observations, and compare these ratios with chemical evolution models. We reanalyze the JWST/NIRSpec…

The detections of bright UV nitrogen emission lines in some high-redshift galaxies suggest unexpectedly high nitrogen-to-oxygen ratios ($\log(\rm N/O)\gtrsim-1.0$) compared to local values ($\log(\rm N/O)\gtrsim-1.5$) at similar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-06 Peixin Zhu , Lisa J. Kewley , Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao , James Trussler

Recent JWST observations have revealed a population of high-redshift galaxies ($z\gtrsim5$) exhibiting unexpectedly bright ultraviolet (UV) nitrogen emission lines. The strong N III] and N IV] features imply nitrogen-to-oxygen abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-04 Peixin Zhu , James Trussler , Lisa J. Kewley

We study the redshift evolution of the gas-phase O/H and N/O abundances, both (i) for individual ISM regions within single spatially-resolved galaxies and (ii) when dealing with average abundances in the whole ISM of many unresolved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Chiaki Kobayashi

Utilizing the observational data of 55,318 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) selected from the catalog of MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for the SDSS DR8, we investigate the galaxy downsizing effect of their O and N enrichments, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-12 Yu-Zhong Wu , Shuang-Nan Zhang

We present N/O abundance ratios, ionization parameters {$q_{\rm ion}$}, and oxygen abundance O/H for a total of 41 galaxies (11 individual galaxies and a 30-galaxy stack) including {Ly$\alpha$} emitters and Lyman break galaxies at $z\sim…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Takashi Kojima , Masami Ouchi , Kimihiko Nakajima , Takatoshi Shibuya , Yuichi Harikane , Yoshiaki Ono

Recent work has demonstrated that widely used strong-line oxygen abundance indicators, such as O3N2, $\rm R23$, and $\widehat{\rm R}$, suffer from large uncertainties when applied to high-redshift galaxies. We show that this loss of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-29 Shihong Liu , Yu Rong , Tie Li , Yao Yao , Cheng Jia , Enci Wang , Hongxin Zhang , Zhicheng He , Huiyuan Wang , Xu Kong

The Nitrogen-to-Oxygen (N/O) abundance ratio is an important diagnostic of galaxy evolution since the ratio is closely tied to the growth of metallicity and the star formation history in galaxies. Estimates for the N/O ratio are…

We analyze the rest-frame near-UV and optical nebular spectra of three $z > 7$ galaxies from the Early Release Observations taken with the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These three high-z…

We present deep JWST NIRSpec observations in the sightline of MACS J1149.5+2223, a massive cluster of galaxies at $z=0.54$. We report the spectroscopic redshift of 28 sources at $3<z<9.1$, including 9 sources with the detection of the…

We present chemical evolution models aimed at reproducing the observed (N/O) vs. (O/H) abundance pattern of star forming galaxies in the Local Universe. We derive gas-phase abundances from SDSS spectroscopy and a complementary sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Francesco Belfiore , Roberto Maiolino , Francesca Matteucci , Paolo Ventura

The oxygen and nitrogen abundance evolutions with redshift and galaxy stellar mass in emission-line SDSS galaxies are investigated. This is the first such study for nitrogen abundances, and it provides an additional constraint for the study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. X. Thuan , L. S. Pilyugin , I. A. Zinchenko

We present ultra-deep Keck/MOSFIRE rest-optical spectra of two star-forming galaxies at z=2.18 in the COSMOS field with bright emission lines, representing more than 20~hours of total integration. The fidelity of these spectra enabled the…

We investigate the chemical evolution of N/O using a sample of 45 local star-forming galaxies (SFGs) from the CLASSY survey. This sample spans a wide range of galaxy properties, with robust determinations of nitrogen and oxygen abundances…

We derive the nitrogen and oxygen abundances in the Narrow Line Regions (NLRs) of a sample of 38 local ($z \: < \: 0.4$) Seyfert~2 nuclei. For that, we consider narrow optical emission line intensities and direct estimates of the electron…

JWST observations have revealed rare galaxies with UV spectra exhibiting intense lines of nitrogen, indicative of super-solar N/O abundances at low metallicity. To better understand these enigmatic objects and provide new constraints on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 I. Morel , D. Schaerer , R. Marques-Chaves , N. Prantzos , C. Charbonnel , G. Brammer , M. Xiao , M. Dessauges-Zavadsky

Recent observations of GN-z11 with JWST/NIRSpec revealed numerous oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium emission lines at $z=10.6$. Using the measured line fluxes, we derive abundance ratios of individual elements within the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Alex J. Cameron , Harley Katz , Martin P. Rey , Aayush Saxena
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