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    "body_text": "JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of LATED-1, a faint galaxy seen through the Abell 2744 lensing cluster, detected hydrogen lines and a tentative oxygen signal. Extrapolating a strong-line calibration to the low-metallicity regime gives an oxygen abundance around 0.58% of the solar value, with substantial uncertainty. That places the galaxy among the most metal-poor known and supports an earlier photometric selection, but it does not prove the galaxy is metal-free or contains the first generation of stars. The oxygen detection and low-metallicity calibration remain important limits.",
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      "title": "arXiv preprint 2609.24589",
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