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Caption: Fig. 8.
Distribution of the relative error on the measured co‐added line strength ΣW
, determined from Monte Carlo simulations, as a function of spectral quality. For our observed spectra, these values are propagated through eqs. [5] and [6] to obtain the spectroscopic metallicity uncertainty.
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