articleMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyJan 5, 2026GOLD OA

REBELS-IFU: evidence for metal-rich massive galaxies at z ∼ 6−8

LELucie E. RowlandMSMauro StefanonRJR. J. BouwensJHJacqueline HodgeHAHiddo Algera

Leiden University · Universitat de València · +33 more institutions

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ABSTRACT Metallicity is a crucial tracer of galaxy evolution, providing insights into gas accretion, star formation, and feedback. At high redshift, these processes reveal how early galaxies assembled and enriched their interstellar medium. In this work, we present rest-frame optical spectroscopy of 12 massive ($\log (M_*/\mathrm{{\rm M}_{\odot }})>9$) galaxies at $z\sim 6$–8 from the Reionization Era Bright Emission Line Survey (REBELS) Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) large program, observed with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRSpec integral field unit spectroscopy in the prism mode. These observations span emission lines from [O ii]$\lambda\lambda$3727,9 to [S…

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  • Galaxy
  • Metallicity
  • Reionization
  • Interstellar medium
  • Spectroscopy
  • Star formation
  • Line (geometry)
  • James Webb Space Telescope
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