CEERS Key Paper. VIII. NIRSpec & NIRCam sp. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Backhaus B.E.
  2. Trump J.R.
  3. Pirzkal N.
  4. Barro G.
  5. Finkelstein S.L.,Arrabal Haro P.
  6. Simons R.C.
  7. Wessner J.
  8. Cleri N.J.
  9. Bagley M.B.,Hirschmann M.
  10. Nicholls D.C.
  11. Dickinson M.
  12. Kartaltepe J.S.
  13. Papovich C.,Kocevski D.D.
  14. Koekemoer A.M.
  15. Bisigello L.
  16. Jaskot A.E.
  17. Lucas R.A.,Jung I.
  18. Wilkins S.M.
  19. Yung L.Y.A.
  20. Ferguson H.C.
  21. Fontana A.
  22. Grazian A.,Grogin N.A.
  23. Kewley L.J.
  24. Kirkpatrick A.
  25. Lotz J.M.
  26. Pentericci L.,Perez-Gonzalez P.G.
  27. Ravindranath S.
  28. Somerville R.S.
  29. Yang G.,Holwerda B.W.
  30. Kurczynski P.
  31. Hathi N.P.
  32. Rose C.
  33. Davis K.
  34. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We use James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (NIRCam WFSS) and the Near-Infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release survey to measure rest-frame optical emission-line ratios of 155 galaxies at z>2. The blind NIRCam grism observations include a sample of galaxies with bright emission lines that were not observed on the NIRSpec masks. We study the changes of the H{alpha}, [OIII]/H{beta}, and [NeIII]/[OII] emission lines in terms of redshift by comparing to lower-redshift SDSS, CLEAR, and MOSDEF samples. We find a significant (>3{sigma}) correlation between [OIII]/H{beta} with redshift, while [NeIII]/[OII] has a marginal (2{sigma}) correlation with redshift. We compare [OIII]/H{beta} and [NeIII]/[OII] to stellar mass and H{beta} SFR. We find that both emission-line ratios have a correlation with H{beta} SFR and an anticorrelation with stellar mass across the redshifts 0<z<9. Comparison with MAPPINGS V models indicates that these trends are consistent with lower metallicity and higher ionization in low-mass and high-SFR galaxies. We additionally compare to IllustrisTNG predictions and find that they effectively describe the highest [OIII]/H{beta} ratios observed in our sample, without the need to invoke MAPPINGS models with significant shock ionization components.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. spectroscopy
  3. infrared-astronomy
  4. active-galactic-nuclei
  5. redshifted
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