Redshift and magnitude distribution of the 27 galaxies in our JADES sample. Top: redshift histogram of galaxies observed in this study. We divide the sample into two sub-samples ‘z∼6’ and ‘z ∼ 8’, based simply on cutting at z = 7 since this is the redshift at which Hα is redshifted beyond the spectral coverage of NIRSpec. Thus, for JADES ‘z ∼ 8’ we only have coverage of lines from [O II] λλ3726, 3729 to [O III] λ5007, while for JADES ‘z ∼ 6’ we can in principle observe all the rest-frame optical lines out to [S II] λλ6716, 6731. The orange hatched histogram indicates galaxies for which we can constrain the [S II] λλ6716, 6731 flux. Green hatching is the same but for [N II] λ6583. Bottom: redshift vs. M₁₅₀₀ for the full z ∼ 5.5 − 9.5 sample. We derived M₁₅₀₀ directly from the PRISM spectra as described in Sect. 2.4.1.