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    JWST and ALMA Multiple-line Study in and around a Galaxy at z=8.496: Optical to Far-Infrared Line Ratios and the Onset of an Outflow Promoting Ionizing Photon Escape
    (2024) Fujimoto, Seiji; Ouchi, Masami; Nakajima, Kimihiko; Harikane, Yuichi; Isobe, Yuki; Brammer, Gabriel; Oguri, Masamune; Gimenez-Arteaga, Clara; Heintz, Kasper E.; Kokorev, Vasily; Bauer, Franz E.; Ferrara, Andrea; Kojima, Takashi; Lagos, Claudia del P.; Laura, Sommovigo; Schaerer, Daniel; Shimasaku, Kazuhiro; Hatsukade, Bunyo; Kohno, Kotaro; Sun, Fengwu; Valentino, Francesco; Watson, Darach; Fudamoto, Yoshinobu; Inoue, Akio K.; Gonzalez-Lopez, Jorge; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Knudsen, Kirsten; Lee, Minju M.; Magdis, Georgios E.; Richard, Johan; Strait, Victoria B.; Sugahara, Yuma; Tamura, Yoichi; Toft, Sune; Umehata, Hideki; Walth, Gregory
    We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) deep spectroscopy for a lensed galaxy at z(spec) = 8.496 with log(M-star/M-circle dot) similar to 7.8 whose optical nebular lines and stellar continuum are detected by JWST/NIRSpec and NIRCam Early Release Observations in the field of SMACS J0723.3-7327. Our ALMA spectrum shows [O III] 88 mu m and [C II] 158 mu m line detections at 4.0 sigma and 4.5 sigma, respectively. The redshift and position of the [O III] line coincide with those of the JWST source, while the [C II] line is blueshifted by 90 km s(-1) with a spatial offset of 0.'' 5 (approximate to 0.5 kpc in the source plane) from the centroid of the JWST source. The NIRCam F444W image, including [O III] lambda 5007 and H beta line emission, spatially extends beyond the stellar components by a factor of >8. This indicates that the z = 8.5 galaxy has already experienced strong outflows as traced by extended [O III] lambda 5007 and offset [C II] emission, which would promote ionizing photon escape and facilitate reionization. With careful slit-loss corrections and the removal of emission spatially outside the galaxy, we evaluate the [O III] 88 mu m/lambda 5007 line ratio, and derive the electron density n (e) by photoionization modeling to be 220(-130)(+230) cm(-3), which is comparable with those of z similar to 2-3 galaxies. We estimate an [O III] 88 mu m/[C II] 158 mu m line ratio in the galaxy of >4, as high as those of known z similar to 6-9 galaxies. This high [O III] 88 mu m/[C II] 158 mu m line ratio is generally explained by the high n(e) as well as the low metallicity (Z(gas)/Z(circle dot)=0.04(-0.02)(+0.02)), high ionization parameter (log U > -2.27), and low carbon-to-oxygen abundance ratio (log(C/O) = [-0.52: -0.24]) obtained from the JWST/NIRSpec data; further [C II] follow-up observations will constrain the covering fraction of photodissociation regions.