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 log(M∗/M⊙) ∈ [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.
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXIV. The Mass–Metallicity Relation in Lensed Field Galaxies at Cosmic Noon with NIRISS*
- Creators
- He, Xianlong
- Wang, Xin
- Jones, Tucker
- Treu, Tommaso
- Glazebrook, K.
- Malkan, Matthew A.
- Vulcani, Benedetta
- Metha, Benjamin
- Bradač, Maruša
- Brammer, Gabriel
- Roberts-Borsani, Guido
- Strait, Victoria
- Bonchi, Andrea
- Castellano, Marco
- Fontana, Adriano
- Mason, Charlotte
- Merlin, Emiliano
- Morishita, Takahiro
- Paris, Diego
- Santini, Paola
- Trenti, Michele
- Boyett, Kristan
- Grasha, K.
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Acknowledgement
We would like to thank the anonymous referee for the constructive comments that help us improve the clarity of this Letter. This Letter is dedicated to the memory of our beloved colleague Mario Nonino who passed away prematurely. We miss him and are indebted to him for his countless contributions to the GLASS-JWST project. This work is based on observations made with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The data were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-03127 for JWST. These observations are associated with program JWST-ERS-1324. We acknowledge financial support from NASA through grant JWST-ERS-1324. X.H. thanks Xiaolei Meng, Lei Sun, and Lilan Yang for the useful discussion. We thank the entire GLASS team that helped shape the manuscript. X.W. is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research, grant No. YSBR-062. This research is supported in part by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), through project number CE170100013. We acknowledge support from the INAF Large grant 2022 "Extragalactic Surveys with JWST" (PI Pentericci). B.M. is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. K.G. is supported by the Australian Research Council through the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship (project number DE220100766) funded by the Australian Government.
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JWST (NIRISS - , NIRCame) - , HST (ACS - , WFC3) -
Software References
Grizli (Brammer & Matharu 2021), Bagpipes (Carnall et al. 2018), LMfit (Newville et al. 2021), Emcee (Foreman-Mackey et al. 2013)
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- ISSN
- 2041-8213
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NAS 5-03127
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- JWST-ERS-1324
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- YSBR-062
- Australian Research Council
- CE170100013
- National Institute for Astrophysics
- Australian Research Council
- DE220100766
- Caltech groups
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)