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In a large spiral galaxy at cosmic noon, a heavily obscured bulge assembled most of its stars in the past while outer clumps host the current star formation, pointing to inside-out growth.

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Resolving stellar populations, star formation, and interstellar medium conditions with JWST in a large spiral galaxy at zapprox2

Eleonora Parlanti , Giulia Tozzi , Natascha M. F\"orster Schreiber , Claudia Pulsoni , Letizia Scaloni , Stavros Pastras , Pascal Oesch , Capucine Barfety
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Francesco Belfiore Jianhang Chen Giovanni Cresci Ric Davies Frank Eisenhauer Juan M. Espejo Salcedo Reinhard Genzel Rodrigo Herrera-Camus Jean-Baptiste Jolly. Lilian L. Lee Minju M. Lee Daizhong Liu Dieter Lutz Filippo Mannucci Giovanni Mazzolari Thorsten Naab Amit Nestor Shachar Sedona H. Price Alvio Renzini T. Taro Shimizu Amiel Sternberg Martina Scialpi Eckhard Sturm Linda J. Tacconi Hannah \"Ubler Stijn Wuyts
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This paper tries to establish how a large, well-formed spiral galaxy at the peak epoch of galaxy assembly grows, by resolving its stellar populations, ongoing star formation, and interstellar medium on kiloparsec scales. Using space-based near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy combined with ground-based adaptive-optics velocity maps, the authors find that the central bulge is modestly massive, heavily obscured, and formed most of its stars over the past 100 Myr rather than today, while massive clumps in the arms host the current star formation. The radial age trend—old in the center, young at the outskirts—points to inside-out growth. The chemical abundance pattern, with normal oxygen, high nitrogen-to-oxygen, and low sulfur-to-oxygen ratios, is interpreted as the signature of metal-poor gas inflows diluting the disk while preserving nitrogen enrichment. If correct, the results show that a single resolved cosmic-noon galaxy can reveal whether a bulge is genuinely quiescent or merely obscured and still assembling.

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper claims that K20-ID7, a large spiral star-forming galaxy at z=2.224, is undergoing inside-out growth: the central bulge (M* ≈ 7±3 × 10^9 M_sun) is heavily obscured (A_V,neb ≈ 6.43±0.55 mag), has an older stellar population than the clumps, and formed most of its mass over the last ~100 Myr (SFR100 ≈ 82±42 M_sun/yr) while still forming stars at a lower current rate (SFR10 ≈ 12±8 M_sun/yr). The star-forming clumps are massive (0.67–3.5 × 10^9 M_sun), lightly obscured (A_V ≈ 0.4), and host most of the present star formation (3–24 M_sun/yr). The paper further claims sub-solar sulfur abundance (log(S/O) ≈ −1.9) and an elevated nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio (log(N/O) ≈ −1.0)

What carries the argument

The central mechanism is the recovery of the intrinsic 2D map of Paβ line emission from wide-field slitless grism data, where spatial position and Doppler velocity are degenerate along the dispersion axis. The authors break this degeneracy by shifting each Paβ pixel along the dispersion axis using the galaxy's Hα velocity field measured at high spectral resolution from the ground (Eq. 1), under the assumption that Paβ and Hα trace the same ionized gas kinematics. Supporting this is pixel-by-pixel spectral energy distribution fitting of the near-infrared imaging, which yields maps of stellar mass, age, and attenuation, and the extraction of spectra from all seven micro-shutters rather than on

Load-bearing premise

The Paβ map is corrected using the Hα velocity field under the assumption that both lines trace the same gas; if Paβ-emitting gas moves differently (for example, in an outflow or a different extinction regime), the recovered 2D map and all Paβ-based star formation rates would be shifted or mis-assigned.

What would settle it

Compare the velocity-corrected Paβ map with a sub-arcsecond CO or millimeter-continuum map of the galaxy: if the dust peak at the bulge shows no corresponding Paβ emission above the predicted lower limit, or if the CO velocity field disagrees with the Hα field at the positions of the clumps, the velocity-correction and the bulge SFR would be invalidated. Alternatively, a resolved measurement of the Paβ/Hα ratio in the bulge at high spatial resolution would directly test the assumed A_V,neb of 6.43 mag.

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If this is right

  • The bulge of K20-ID7 is not a dead, red remnant: it is forming stars at about 12 M_sun/yr, but at only a fraction of its past rate (about 82 M_sun/yr averaged over 100 Myr), so its stellar mass is being assembled gradually rather than in a recent burst.
  • Massive star-forming clumps at z≈2 can exist with low dust attenuation (A_V≈0.4), meaning the bulk of the galaxy's current star formation is visible in the rest-frame optical rather than hidden behind dust.
  • The chemical pattern—roughly solar oxygen, N/O about 0.1 dex above local relations, and log(S/O) near −1.9, below the solar value—is a coherent signature of metal-poor gas inflowing from the outskirts, diluting oxygen while leaving nitrogen elevated.
  • Radial gradients in stellar age and Hα equivalent width, older at smaller radii, are direct resolved evidence for inside-out growth in a cosmic-noon disk galaxy.
  • Correcting slitless grism line maps for velocity gradients makes near-infrared Paβ a usable star formation tracer in obscured regions, extending the census of obscured star formation to the bulge.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the velocity-correction assumption holds, the same method could be applied to other rotating disks observed with slitless grism spectroscopy, turning any high-resolution velocity field into a way to de-blur 2D line maps; a test against independent kinematic tracers such as CO or [O iii] would settle whether Paβ truly shares Hα's velocity field.
  • The low S/O ratio, if it reflects delayed Type Ia supernova sulfur enrichment, predicts that S/O should rise in this galaxy's interstellar medium on timescales longer than about a gigayear; comparing K20-ID7 with similar galaxies at lower redshift could reveal the build-up.
  • A sub-kiloparsec ALMA millimeter-continuum map should reveal a compact dust peak coincident with the bulge; measuring its luminosity would give an independent, extinction-robust measure of the bulge's current star formation rate, testing the 12 M_sun/yr estimate.
  • The dilution scenario implies a metallicity gradient that is expected to be steepest across the clumps; the micro-shutter apertures are large enough to smooth it, so finer spatial sampling could confirm pristine-gas accretion onto Clump-N or force a revision.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. This paper presents a detailed, spatially resolved study of K20-ID7, a massive star-forming spiral at z=2.224, combining JWST/NIRSpec MSA spectroscopy, NIRCam WFSS Pa-beta imaging, HST/ACS and NIRCam photometry, VLT/ERIS H-alpha IFU kinematics, and ALMA 1.2 mm continuum. The authors custom-reduce the MSA spectra to extract seven galaxy regions, derive ISM properties (A_V, n_e, log U, O/H, N/O, S/O), run pixel-by-pixel CIGALE SED fits to produce maps of M*, SFR10, SFR100, A_V,star, and stellar age, and reconstruct a velocity-corrected Pa-beta SFR map from NIRCam WFSS. The main conclusions are that the clumps are massive, lightly obscured, low-ionization star-forming regions; the bulge is modestly massive (M* = 7 +/- 3 x 10^9 Msun), heavily obscured (A_V,neb = 6.43 +/- 0.55), has SFR100 = 82 +/- 42 Msun/yr exceeding SFR10 = 12 +/- 8 Msun/yr, and hosts older stellar populations, supporting inside-out growth; and the abundance patterns (low S/O, high N/O at fixed O/H) may trace metal-poor inflows and incomplete Type Ia sulfur enrichment.

Significance. If correct, this is one of the most complete resolved dissections of a cosmic-noon disk and a compelling demonstration of the JWST + ground-based AO IFU synergy. The paper has genuine technical merit: the multi-shutter MSA extraction addresses self-subtraction and pathloss effects that standard reductions miss, the WFSS velocity correction is a creative use of high-resolution H-alpha kinematics, and Appendix D's reproduction of the observed ERIS H-alpha map from the SED-based SFR10 and A_V,star maps is a valuable end-to-end check. The abundance measurements (N/O, S/O, O/H) also extend a small but growing sample at z > 1. However, the headline bulge result—that the bulge formed most of its stellar mass in the past—rests on SED-fitting priors that are not robustly tested, and the integrated SED including 1.2 mm photometry gives systematically lower SFR10/SFR100, an inconsistency the paper explicitly leaves unexplained. The reader's concern about the Pa-beta/H-alpha velocity assumption is valid, but it affects the Pa-beta clump SFRs and the reconstructed line map, not the bulge age/SFR100 claim; the latter is the more load-bearing issue. With additional robustness tests or with approp

major comments (3)
  1. [Sect. 4.2, 4.3, Table 3] The central claim that the bulge formed most of its stellar mass in the past is not yet supported to the same standard as the rest of the paper. The bulge is outside the MSA shutters and undetected in Pa-beta, so SFR100 = 82 +/- 42 Msun/yr, SFR10 = 12 +/- 8 Msun/yr, A_V,neb = 6.43 +/- 0.55, and t_age all come from CIGALE with fixed Z = 0.008, a delayed-exponential SFH, and a Calzetti attenuation law. Table 3 shows that the integrated fit including ALMA 1.2 mm yields systematically lower SFR10 and SFR100, and Sect. 4.3 explicitly says the cause is not investigated. Furthermore, SFR100 = 82 Msun/yr over 100 Myr forms about 8 x 10^9 Msun, comparable to the entire bulge stellar mass, which is hard to reconcile with the quoted t_age ~ 400-2000 Myr unless the SFH is finely tuned; Table 3 lists t_age < 850 Myr for the bulge, while Sects. 4.2/6.1 state 400-2000 Myr, and the 2x aperture correctio
  2. [Sect. 5.1, Eq. (1), Fig. 5] The Pa-beta WFSS velocity correction is an important and non-trivial step, but the paper does not describe how the implicit equation x_int = x_obs - v(x_int)/(57 km/s) is solved, nor how uncertainties in the ERIS H-alpha velocity field propagate into the reconstructed map. If Pa-beta-emitting gas has different kinematics from H-alpha (due to outflows, inflow asymmetries, or wavelength-dependent extinction), the reconstructed positions of clumps and the derived Pa-beta SFRs in Table 3 will be systematically shifted. The middle panel of Fig. 5 is only a qualitative check. Since the clump SFRs and the total SFR_Pa-beta = 120 +/- 70 Msun/yr depend on this correction, please specify the inversion scheme, quantify the systematic uncertainty (e.g., by perturbing the velocity model or comparing with the SED-based SFR10 map pixel-by-pixel), and state explicitly that the Pa-beta map is model-depen
  3. [Sect. 5.2, Table 3] The bulge Pa-beta measurement is not a significant detection: SFR0_Pa-beta = 1.2 +/- 1.0 Msun/yr has S/N ~ 1.2, yet Table 3 lists a dust-corrected SFR_Pa-beta = 7.6 (+8.8, -6.6) Msun/yr and the text discusses it as a constraint. Moreover, the 'expected Pa-beta flux' computed in Sect. 5.2 uses the SED-derived SFR10 and A_V,star, so the subsequent comparison is a self-consistency check, not an independent validation. This is acceptable as an upper-limit consistency test, but the table and text should label the bulge Pa-beta SFR as an upper limit / non-detection and avoid implying an independent Pa-beta-based measurement of current bulge star formation.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Sect. 5.2, Eq. (2)] The text says the Reddy et al. (2023b) conversion is used for the Z = 0.02 case 'which is the closest metallicity to our measurements,' but the paper's own measurements are 12+log(O/H) ~ 8.5, i.e., about 0.6-0.8 Zsun, and the CIGALE fits use Z = 0.008. Please justify the choice of the solar-metallicity conversion or quantify the resulting systematic on SFR_Pa-beta.
  2. [Sect. 3.2 and Table 2] For the Inter-Arm region, H-beta is not directly measured and is estimated from the extinction-corrected H-alpha flux assuming the theoretical H-alpha/H-beta ratio. This enters the metallicity determination. The paper does note this in the text, but it would be helpful to state in Table 2 or the caption that the Inter-Arm O/H and S/O values inherit this assumption.
  3. [Sect. 2.3 / Appendix C] Appendix C cautions that the Pa-beta 'detection' in the bulge from NIRCam medium-band imaging is unreliable, and the WFSS map shows no bulge detection. This inconsistency between the two Pa-beta tracers should be discussed more explicitly, since readers may otherwise be confused by Fig. C.1.
  4. [Throughout] Minor language issues: Sect. 2.2 contains 'and and not only'; the Fig. 5 caption has 'in in prep.'; Sect. 7 has 't sge' instead of 't_age'; Appendix D uses 'Forster Schreiber' without the umlaut. These should be corrected in the final version.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: SED-based bulge properties are fitted outputs, the Pa-beta comparison is a consistency check, and self-citations supply external data.

full rationale

The paper's central inferences are built from independent datasets: ISM abundances and line ratios from NIRSpec MSA spectroscopy; stellar masses, ages, A_V, and SFRs from CIGALE fits to HST/ACS and JWST/NIRCam photometry; and Pa-beta from NIRCam WFSS with a velocity correction based on ERIS H-alpha kinematics. The bulge SFR100=82 and t_age are outputs of a stated CIGALE model with a decaying exponential SFH, not inputs or renamed predictions. The paper openly compares these with integrated fits including 1.2 mm photometry, which give systematically lower SFR10/SFR100, and leaves that discrepancy unexplained (Sect. 4.3: "Investigating the causes of the systematic lower SFR10... goes beyond the purpose of this paper") -- a model-dependence caveat rather than a circular loop. The one loop-like passage is Sect. 5.2, where the SED-derived SFR10 is used to compute an expected Pa-beta flux for the bulge and then compared with the observed Pa-beta flux; however, the paper explicitly frames this as a consistency check ("both compatible with our SFR_Pa-beta^0 estimate") and the observed Pa-beta is an independent dataset, so no fitted parameter is forced by construction. The Pa-beta/H-alpha kinematic assumption in Eq. (1) is an explicit physical assumption, not a circular reduction. Self-citations to Genzel et al. (2023) and Pulsoni et al. (in prep.) supply external observations (inflow kinematics, ERIS velocity fields and maps), not the paper's own conclusions. No equation is defined in terms of the target result, and no fitted quantity is relabeled as a prediction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

7 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper relies on a standard set of astrophysical assumptions and several hand-chosen model priors. No new physical entities are introduced. The most sensitive free parameters are the fixed metallicity and the attenuation law, both of which directly affect the bulge properties and the age gradient interpretation.

free parameters (7)
  • Fixed stellar metallicity in CIGALE = Z=0.008
    Chosen by hand to improve SED fits; affects stellar age and mass estimates, especially in the bulge.
  • Delayed exponential SFH priors = t_age: 50-2900 Myr; τ: 10 Myr-8000 Gyr
    A parametric star formation history prior; different shapes would change derived ages and SFRs.
  • Dust attenuation law = Calzetti et al. 2000 with R_V=4.05
    Assumed rather than measured; high-z attenuation curves may differ, affecting A_V and derived SFRs.
  • Bulge aperture correction factor = 2
    Sum over a 0.25'' diameter aperture is multiplied by two to estimate total bulge properties; assumes a specific light profile.
  • Theoretical hydrogen line ratios = Hα/Hβ=2.86, Paβ/Hα=0.0569, Paβ/Hβ=0.163
    Fixed Case B recombination values; deviations would change the inferred nebular attenuation.
  • Paβ SFR conversion constant = 7.67e-41 M_sun/yr/(erg/s)
    From Reddy et al. (2023b); tied to assumed IMF and metallicity, and applied to all regions.
  • S/N threshold for resolved SED fitting = S/N>7 on F444W
    Chosen to balance spatial coverage and noise; may bias against low-surface-brightness regions.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption Case B recombination at T=10^4 K for hydrogen line ratios
    Used to convert observed line ratios to dust attenuation (Sect. 3.1).
  • domain assumption Calzetti attenuation law with R_V=4.05 is valid at z~2
    Applied for both nebular and stellar attenuation; high-z curves may differ (Sect. 3.1, 4.1).
  • domain assumption Paβ and Hα emit from the same gas and share kinematics
    Used to correct WFSS Paβ positions with the ERIS Hα velocity field (Sect. 5.1).
  • domain assumption Strong-line metallicity calibrations (Sanders et al. 2025, Hayden-Pawson et al. 2022, Díaz & Zamora 2022) are applicable at z~2
    Used to derive O/H, N/O, and S/H; calibration systematics are not fully propagated.
  • domain assumption Bruzual & Charlot (2003) stellar population models and Chabrier IMF are correct
    Used in all CIGALE SED fitting; incorrect models would bias stellar masses and ages.

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Cosmic noon represents the prime epoch of galaxy assembly, and a sweet spot for observations with the James Webb Telescope (JWST) and ground-based near-IR integral-field unit (IFU) spectrographs. This work analyses JWST NIRSpec Micro Shutter Array (MSA), NIRCam Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) of K20-ID7, a large spiral, star-forming (SF) galaxy at z=2.2, with evidence for radial gas inflows. By exploiting the synergy with ground-based IFU ERIS observations, we conduct a comprehensive and resolved study of the interstellar medium (ISM) and stellar properties, from rest optical to near-IR, via emission-line diagnostics, resolved spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting of high-resolution imaging, and Pa$\beta$ line detection in NIRCam WFSS data. Our analysis reveals massive ($M_{\star}\simeq$(0.67-3.5)$\times$10$^{9}$ $M_{\odot}$) SF clumps with star formation rates (SFRs) ~3-24 $M_{\odot}$/yr, and quite low dust attenuation ($A_V\simeq$0.4), electron density ($n_{e}$<300 cm$^{-3}$), and ionisation (log(U)$\simeq -3.0$). The central bulge turns out to be modestly massive ($M_{\star}$=(7$\pm$3)$\times$10$^{9}$ M$_{\odot}$), heavily obscured ($A_V$=6.43$\pm$0.55), and likely to have formed most of its stellar mass in the past (SFR=82$\pm$42 $M_{\odot}$/yr over the last 100 Myr), yet still forming stars at a lower rate (SFR=12$\pm$8 M$_{\odot}$/yr over the last 10 Myr). We infer a metallicity 12+log(O/H)~8.54 and an apparent enhancement of the N/O abundance (log(N/O)$\simeq -1.0$) in all distinct galaxy regions, a likely consequence of dilution effects due to radial inflows of metal-poor gas. We measure a sub-solar sulfur abundance (log(S/O)$\simeq$-1.9). Finally, the radial stellar age profile reveals older stellar populations in the inner galaxy regions compared to the outskirts, pointing to an inside-out growth of K20-ID7.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2510.09820 by Alvio Renzini, Amiel Sternberg, Amit Nestor Shachar, Capucine Barfety, Claudia Pulsoni, Daizhong Liu, Dieter Lutz, Eckhard Sturm, Eleonora Parlanti, Filippo Mannucci, Francesco Belfiore, Frank Eisenhauer, Giovanni Cresci, Giovanni Mazzolari, Giulia Tozzi, Hannah \"Ubler, Jean-Baptiste Jolly. Lilian L. Lee, Jianhang Chen, Juan M. Espejo Salcedo, Letizia Scaloni, Linda J. Tacconi, Martina Scialpi, Minju M. Lee, Natascha M. F\"orster Schreiber, Pascal Oesch, Reinhard Genzel, Ric Davies, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Sedona H. Price, Stavros Pastras, Stijn Wuyts, Thorsten Naab, T. Taro Shimizu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Images of K20-ID7 in four representative HST/ACS (F435W, F814W) and JWST/NIRCam (F150W, F444W) filters, tracing galaxy emis￾sion from rest-frame UV to near-IR wavelengths. Redder NIRCam imaging unambiguously reveals a regular, unperturbed galaxy morphology, with well-defined spiral arms, and a compact bulge which appears brighter in the reddest F444W filter. All images are in units of nJy. CrabToolkit5 , w… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: NIRSpec MSA spectroscopy of K20-ID7. Left: Location of the two distinct MSA mask arrays, with open shutters drawn on the top of a NIRCam RGB image of K20-ID7, composed of F356W+F444W (red), F182M+F200W+F277W (green), and F090W+F115W+F150W (blue) filters. Right: PRISM/CLEAR spectra extracted from the seven coloured MSA shutters (those exhibiting some galaxy emission, same colors as in the left panel), using… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Continuum-subtracted NIRCam F444W WFSS data of K20-ID7, zoomed-in over 3.95 – 4.40 µm, encompassing Paβ line emission. In the 2D slitless spectra (upper panel), Paβ line emission is clearly spatially resolved perpendicularly to the dispersion axis, and also extended along the parallel direction, which leads to a double-peaked Paβ line profile in the total 1D spectrum (lower panel). This is consequence of r… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: 2D maps at 25mas pixel scale of the main galaxy properties, as resulting from our resolved SED fitting with CIGALE of HST/ACS and JWST/NIRCam images. From left to right, the top panels show maps of stellar mass, and SFRs averaged over the last 10 Myr and 100 Myr, while the bottom ones AV ,star, stellar age, and χ 2 red. The χ 2 red map demonstrates the goodness of our pixel-by-pixel SED modeling, displayin… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: 2D spatial distribution of Paβ in K20-ID7 from NIRCam grism F444W observations. Left. Paβ line map, as reconstructed by grizli (Brammer 2023), with white contours tracing F444W continuum emission. Paβ emission appears offset with respect to continuum emission, along the x-axis (i.e., grism dispersion direction), due to velocity gradients. This is particularly evident for the northernmost clump (circled in … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Radial profiles of galaxy properties, as derived from our 2D SED-based maps. From left to right, the top panels display the radial profiles of M⋆, SFR10 and SFR100, while the bottom ones show AV,star, tage, and specific SFR (sSFR= SFR10/M⋆). The big markers show the median value computed for each ring, with the errorbars showing the ±1σ scatter. In the background, we plot the distribution of values of indi… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Rest-frame EW(Hα) as a function of sSFR for the various galaxy regions probed by distinct MSA shutters. EW(Hα) measurements are derived from PRISM/CLEAR data, while sSFRs from our SED-based SFR10 and M⋆ maps. The plot highlights a correlation between the two quantities, with higher EW(Hα) values at higher sSFR, which is also indicative of younger stellar populations. and external accretion from the circumg… view at source ↗

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