New insights into the evolution of massive stars and their effects on our understanding of early galaxies

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The observable characteristics and subsequent evolution of young stellar populations is
dominated by their massive stars. As our understanding of those massive stars and the …

The ionizing photon production efficiency at z ∼ 6 for Lyman-alpha emitters using JEMS and MUSE

C Simmonds, S Tacchella, M Maseda… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the ionizing photon production efficiency at the end of the Epoch of Reionization
(z∼ 5.4− 6.6) for a sample of 30 Ly α emitters. This is a crucial quantity to infer the ionizing …

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 …

Emission-line properties of IllustrisTNG galaxies: from local diagnostic diagrams to high-redshift predictions for JWST

M Hirschmann, S Charlot, A Feltre… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We compute synthetic, rest-frame optical and ultraviolet (UV) emission-line properties of
galaxy populations at redshifts from z≈ 0 to= 8 in a full cosmological framework. We achieve …

Strong C iv emission from star-forming galaxies: a case for high Lyman continuum photon escape

A Saxena, E Cryer, RS Ellis, L Pentericci… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Finding reliable indicators of Lyman continuum (Ly C) photon leakage from galaxies is
essential in order to infer their escape fraction in the epoch of reionization, where direct …

Modeling the High-energy Ionizing Output from Simple Stellar and X-Ray Binary Populations

K Garofali, AR Basu-Zych, BD Johnson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a methodology for modeling the joint ionizing impact due to a" simple X-ray
population"(SXP) and its corresponding simple stellar population (SSP), where" simple" …

EMPRESS. VII. Ionizing Spectrum Shapes of Extremely Metal-poor Galaxies: Uncovering the Origins of Strong He ii and the Impact on Cosmic Reionization

H Umeda, M Ouchi, K Nakajima, Y Isobe… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Strong high-ionization lines such as He ii of young galaxies are puzzling at high and low
redshift. Although recent studies suggest the existence of nonthermal sources, whether their …

Characterizing Extreme Emission Line Galaxies. II. A Self-consistent Model of Their Ionizing Spectrum

GM Olivier, DA Berg, J Chisholm, DK Erb… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations of high-redshift galaxies (z> 5) have shown that these galaxies have extreme
emission lines with equivalent widths much larger than their local star-forming counterparts …

Inferring the HII region escape fraction of ionizing photons from infrared emission lines in metal-poor star-forming dwarf galaxies

L Ramambason, V Lebouteiller, A Bik… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Local metal-poor galaxies stand as ideal laboratories for probing the properties of the
interstellar medium (ISM) in chemically unevolved conditions. Detailed studies of this …

MUSE spectroscopy of the ULX NGC 1313 X-1: A shock-ionised bubble, an X-ray photoionised nebula, and two supernova remnants

A Gúrpide, M Parra, O Godet, T Contini… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. The presence of large ionised gaseous nebulae found around some ultraluminous
X-ray sources (ULXs) provides the means to assess the mechanical and radiative feedback …