[O III] line ratios and evolution of oxygen abundance with redshift using JWST-VLT-Keck observations
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2026
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Abstract We study high-z galaxies using JWST observations and new atomic data, complemented by low-z observations from VLT and Keck, to examine a sample of 44 galaxies and analyze or re-analyze observed [O iii ] line ratios to derive electron temperatures, densities, and oxygen abundances. In addition to [O iii ] temperature diagnostics, [O ii ] and [S ii ] ratios are employed for density constraints and contour plots of physical conditions. Based on nebular temperature-abundance relations for H ii regions, we track the evolution of [12 + log(O/H)] with redshift. Our [O III] atomic model incorporates recombination-cascade contributions to forbidden lines using new level-specific recombination rate coefficients and transition probabilities, together with collision strengths computed in earlier works. We find that individual galaxies show a large and systematic variation with electron temperature in the nebular range 5000-25000K, and O-abundance down to 6.75 compared to the solar value 8.70. The oxygen abundances vs. z display a broadly decreasing trend toward high-z ~ 10, with a best fit ranging from 8.25 to 7.50 from the present epoch at z = 0, generally consistent with previous works on metallicity-redshift variation. The present analysis employs a collisional-radiative-recombination model that also considers possible (e + O iv ) –> O iii recombination-cascade contributions to [O iii ] forbidden lines, but is found to be negligible. We also explore AI Machine Learning models to predict and complement directly derived results, with preliminary simulations trained on observed flux ratios and PyNeb-simulated datasets that are promising but limited by current sample sizes. Future work may expand these datasets and further refine statistical models.
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| Authors | Vidit Bhandari, Mingyi Xu, Sultana N. Nahar, Anil K. Pradhan |
| Journal | monthly notices of the royal astronomical society |
| Year | 2026 |
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10.1093/mnras/stag955
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