A magnified compact galaxy at redshift 9.51 with strong nebular emission lines

Author:

Williams Hayley1ORCID,Kelly Patrick L.1ORCID,Chen Wenlei1ORCID,Brammer Gabriel2ORCID,Zitrin Adi3ORCID,Treu Tommaso4ORCID,Scarlata Claudia1ORCID,Koekemoer Anton M.5ORCID,Oguri Masamune67ORCID,Lin Yu-Heng1ORCID,Diego Jose M.8ORCID,Nonino Mario9ORCID,Hjorth Jens10ORCID,Langeroodi Danial10ORCID,Broadhurst Tom11ORCID,Rogers Noah1ORCID,Perez-Fournon Ismael1213ORCID,Foley Ryan J.14ORCID,Jha Saurabh15ORCID,Filippenko Alexei V.16ORCID,Strolger Lou5ORCID,Pierel Justin5ORCID,Poidevin Frederick1213ORCID,Yang Lilan17ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

2. Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.

3. Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel.

4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

5. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

6. Center for Frontier Science, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.

7. Department of Physics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.

8. Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Universidad de Cantabria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 39005 Santander, Spain.

9. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, 34124 Trieste, Italy.

10. Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.

11. Donostia International Physics Center, Ikerbasque Foundation, University of the Basque Country, 20018 Donostia, Spain.

12. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

13. Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

14. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

15. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

16. Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA.

17. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8583, Japan.

Abstract

Ultraviolet light from early galaxies is thought to have ionized gas in the intergalactic medium. However, there are few observational constraints on this epoch because of the faintness of those galaxies and the redshift of their optical light into the infrared. We report the observation, in JWST imaging, of a distant galaxy that is magnified by gravitational lensing. JWST spectroscopy of the galaxy, at rest-frame optical wavelengths, detects strong nebular emission lines that are attributable to oxygen and hydrogen. The measured redshift is z = 9.51 ± 0.01, corresponding to 510 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy has a radius of 16.2 7.2 + 4.6 parsecs, which is substantially more compact than galaxies with equivalent luminosity at z ~ 6 to 8, leading to a high star formation rate surface density.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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