De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies

R Maiolino, F Mannucci - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2019 - Springer
The evolution of the content of heavy elements in galaxies, the relative chemical
abundances, their spatial distribution, and how these scale with various galactic properties …

Observations of the Lyman-α Universe

M Ouchi, Y Ono, T Shibuya - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Hydrogen Lyman-α (Lyα) emission has been one of the major observational probes for the
high-redshift Universe since the first discoveries of high-z Lyα-emitting galaxies in the late …

The chemical enrichment in the early Universe as probed by JWST via direct metallicity measurements at z ∼ 8

M Curti, F d'Eugenio, S Carniani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the chemical properties of three z∼ 8 galaxies behind the galaxy cluster
SMACS J0723. 3-7327, observed as part of the Early Release Observations programme of …

JADES: Probing interstellar medium conditions at z∼ 5.5–9.5 with ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

AJ Cameron, A Saxena, AJ Bunker… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present emission-line ratios from a sample of 27 Lyman-break galaxies from z∼ 5.5− 9.5
with− 17.0< M 1500<− 20.4, measured from ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec multi-object …

The low-redshift Lyman continuum survey. I. New, diverse local Lyman continuum emitters

SR Flury, AE Jaskot, HC Ferguson… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The origins of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons responsible for the reionization of the
universe are as of yet unknown and highly contested. Detecting LyC photons from the Epoch …

The far-ultraviolet continuum slope as a Lyman Continuum escape estimator at high redshift

J Chisholm, A Saldana-Lopez, S Flury… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Most of the hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) was rapidly ionized at high redshifts.
While observations have established that reionization occurred, observational constraints on …

Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

Closing in on the sources of cosmic reionization: First results from the GLASS-JWST program

S Mascia, L Pentericci, A Calabrò, T Treu… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The escape fraction of Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons (f esc) is a key parameter for
determining the sources of cosmic reionization at z≥ 6. At these redshifts, owing to the …

The mass–metallicity and the fundamental metallicity relation revisited on a fully Te-based abundance scale for galaxies

M Curti, F Mannucci, G Cresci… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The relationships between stellar mass, gas-phase metallicity and star-formation rate (ie the
mass–metallicity, MZR, and the fundamental metallicity relation, FMR) in the local Universe …

The synchrony of production and escape: half the bright Lyα emitters at z ≈ 2 have Lyman continuum escape fractions ≈50

RP Naidu, J Matthee, PA Oesch… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ionizing photon escape fraction [Lyman continuum (LyC) f esc] of star-forming galaxies
is the single greatest unknown in the reionization budget. Stochastic sightline effects prohibit …