Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXIV. The Mass–Metallicity Relation in Lensed Field Galaxies at Cosmic Noon with NIRISS

Xianlong He; Xin Wang; Tucker Jones; Tommaso Treu; K. Glazebrook; Matthew A. Malkan; Benedetta Vulcani; Benjamin Metha; Maruša Bradač; Gabriel Brammer; Guido Roberts-Borsani; Victoria Strait; Andrea Bonchi; Marco Castellano; Adriano Fontana; Charlotte Mason; Emiliano Merlin; Takahiro Morishita; Diego Paris; Paola Santini; Michele Trenti; Kristan Boyett; K. Grasha

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ad12cd

The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2024)

Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXIV. The Mass–Metallicity Relation in Lensed Field Galaxies at Cosmic Noon with NIRISS

Xianlong He,
Xin Wang,
Tucker Jones,
Tommaso Treu,
K. Glazebrook,
Matthew A. Malkan,
Benedetta Vulcani,
Benjamin Metha,
Maruša Bradač,
Gabriel Brammer,
Guido Roberts-Borsani,
Victoria Strait,
Andrea Bonchi,
Marco Castellano,
Adriano Fontana,
Charlotte Mason,
Emiliano Merlin,
Takahiro Morishita,
Diego Paris,
Paola Santini,
Michele Trenti,
Kristan Boyett,
K. Grasha

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Xianlong He: ORCiD; School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) , Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China ; [email protected]; School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University (WHU) , Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China
Xin Wang: ORCiD; School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) , Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China ; [email protected]; National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China; Institute for Frontiers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Beijing Normal University , Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China
Tucker Jones: ORCiD; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis , 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Tommaso Treu: ORCiD; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles , 430 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
K. Glazebrook: ORCiD; Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology , PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
Matthew A. Malkan: ORCiD; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles , 430 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Benedetta Vulcani: ORCiD; INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova , vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy
Benjamin Metha: ORCiD; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles , 430 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; School of Physics, University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) , Australia
Maruša Bradač: ORCiD; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis , 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA; University of Ljubljana , Department of Mathematics and Physics, Jadranska ulica 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Gabriel Brammer: ORCiD; Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN ), Denmark; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Guido Roberts-Borsani: ORCiD; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles , 430 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Victoria Strait: ORCiD; Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN ), Denmark; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Andrea Bonchi: ORCiD; Space Science Data Center , Italian Space Agency, via del Politecnico, I-00133 Roma, Italy; INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monteporzio Catone, Rome, Italy
Marco Castellano: ORCiD; INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monteporzio Catone, Rome, Italy
Adriano Fontana: ORCiD; INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monteporzio Catone, Rome, Italy
Charlotte Mason: ORCiD; Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN ), Denmark; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Emiliano Merlin: ORCiD; INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monteporzio Catone, Rome, Italy
Takahiro Morishita: ORCiD; IPAC, California Institute of Technology , MC 314-6, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Diego Paris: ORCiD; INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monteporzio Catone, Rome, Italy
Paola Santini: ORCiD; INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monteporzio Catone, Rome, Italy
Michele Trenti: ORCiD; School of Physics, University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) , Australia
Kristan Boyett: ORCiD; School of Physics, University of Melbourne , Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) , Australia
K. Grasha: ORCiD; ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) , Australia; Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University , Canberra, ACT 2611, Australia; Visiting Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad12cd
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 960, no. 2
p. L13

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We present a measurement of the mass–metallicity relation (MZR) at Cosmic Noon, using the JWST near-infrared wide-field slitless spectroscopy obtained by the GLASS-JWST Early Release Science program. By combining the power of JWST and the lensing magnification by the foreground cluster A2744, we extend the measurements of the MZR to the dwarf mass regime at high redshifts. A sample of 50 galaxies with several emission lines is identified across two wide redshift ranges of z = 1.8–2.3 and 2.6–3.4 in the stellar mass range of $\mathrm{log}\,({M}_{* }/{M}_{\odot })\in [6.9,10.0]$ . The observed slope of MZR is 0.223 ± 0.017 and 0.294 ± 0.010 at these two redshift ranges, respectively, consistent with the slopes measured in field galaxies with higher masses. In addition, we assess the impact of the morphological broadening on emission line measurement by comparing two methods of using 2D forward modeling and line profile fitting to 1D extracted spectra. We show that ignoring the morphological broadening effect when deriving line fluxes from grism spectra results in a systematic reduction of flux by ∼30% on average. This discrepancy appears to affect all the lines and thus does not lead to significant changes in flux ratio and metallicity measurements. This assessment of the morphological broadening effect using JWST data presents, for the first time, an important guideline for future work deriving galaxy line fluxes from wide-field slitless spectroscopy, such as Euclid, Roman, and the Chinese Space Station Telescope.

Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

ISSN: 2041-8205 (Print); 2041-8213 (Online)
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Astronomy: Astrophysics
Website: https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205

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