Observations of helium emission lines from classical T Tauri stars at high resolution (R_ łambda >10, 000) offer great potential, showing distinct profile characteristics that help probe regions within the accretion geometry untapped by hydrogen lines. Parallel studies in the planetary-mass regime have not been explored. We investigate helium line emission from the nearby (47 pc), wide orbit (sim84 au), sim13 accreting circumbinary companion Delorme 1 (AB) b and analyse the resolved profile characteristics to infer clues to line origin. We obtained high signal-to-noise spectra of the target over 33 exposures with VLT/UVES over near-ultraviolet to optical wavelengths at high resolution (R_ łambda We studied the helium line profiles in the spectra and compared them to helium emission recorded from both accreting and non-accreting young stellar objects. We detected seven neutral helium (_ lines łambdałambda3890, 4027, 4473, 4923, 5017, 5877, 6680 at high confidence (>5σ), with notable flux variation between epochs. The line profiles of łambdałambda5877, 4923, 4473, 4027 show clear asymmetry, with a narrow component at sim0 ̨ms and a broad component redshifted by sim15 ̨ms. The accretion luminosity (1. 3^ +1. 6 -0. 7 -5 łsun) and mass accretion rate (0. 7^ +0. 9 _ -0. 4 -8 obtained from median line luminosities using empirical scaling relations from stars are comparable but slightly higher than from the target's ultraviolet excess emission. The protoplanet Delorme 1 (AB) b exhibits asymmetric lines similar to classical T Tauri stars, but with much smaller widths for the narrow and broad components. The triplet--singlet line ratio, a strong correlation with ultraviolet excess and the near-zero, redshifted velocities obtained for the narrow component suggest that it originates within the post-shock region, close to the planet surface. The persistent redshift of the broad component, its line width, and velocity correlation with the narrow component imply an origin within the shock structure, closer to the shock front. Emission seems to be dominated by accretion based on the obtained accretion luminosities, but a contribution from chromospheric activity may be present.
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