The cold interstellar medium of galaxies in the local universe

A Saintonge, B Catinella - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The cold interstellar medium (ISM) plays a central role in the galaxy evolution process. It is
the reservoir that fuels galaxy growth via star formation, the repository of material formed by …

Understanding galaxy evolution through emission lines

LJ Kewley, DC Nicholls… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review the use of emission lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on
excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure, and electron density. We …

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 …

CEERS spectroscopic confirmation of NIRCam-selected z≳ 8 galaxy candidates with JWST/NIRSpec: initial characterization of their properties

S Fujimoto, PA Haro, M Dickinson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy for 11 galaxy candidates with photometric
redshifts of z≃ 9− 13 and M UV∈[− 21,− 18] newly identified in NIRCam images in the …

First look with JWST spectroscopy: Resemblance among z∼ 8 galaxies and local analogs

D Schaerer, R Marques-Chaves, L Barrufet… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Deep images and near-IR spectra of galaxies in the field of the lensing cluster SMACS
J0723. 3− 7327 were recently taken as part of the Early Release Observations (EROs) …

Evidence from the h3 survey that the stellar halo is entirely comprised of substructure

RP Naidu, C Conroy, A Bonaca… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In the ΛCDM paradigm, the Galactic stellar halo is predicted to harbor the accreted debris of
smaller systems. To identify these systems, the H3 Spectroscopic Survey, combined with …

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 …

The MOSDEF Survey: The Evolution of the Mass–Metallicity Relation from z= 0 to z∼ 3.3

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, T Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the evolution of galaxy gas-phase metallicity (O/H) over the range z= 0–3.3
using samples of∼ 300 galaxies at z∼ 2.3 and∼ 150 galaxies at z∼ 3.3 from the MOSDEF …

Evidence for two early accretion events that built the Milky Way stellar halo

GC Myeong, E Vasiliev, G Iorio… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Gaia Sausage is the major accretion event that built the stellar halo of the Milky
Way galaxy. Here, we provide dynamical and chemical evidence for a second substantial …

The ALMA REBELS Survey: cosmic dust temperature evolution out to z ∼ 7

L Sommovigo, A Ferrara, A Pallottini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT ALMA observations have revealed the presence of dust in the first generations
of galaxies in the Universe. However, the dust temperature T d remains mostly …