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Hα Dots: A Catalog of Faint Emission-line Objects Discovered in Narrowband Images

  • Authors: Jessica A. Kellar, John J. Salzer, Gary Wegner, Caryl Gronwall, and Anna Williams

Kellar et al. 2012 The Astronomical Journal 143 145.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 9.

Emission-line ratio diagnostic diagram for the Hα dots. Hα-detected (open symbols) vs. [O iii]-detected objects (filled symbols) are distinguished from each other, as are star-forming galaxies (circles) vs. AGNs (triangles). The dashed line is from Kauffmann et al. (2003) and delineates regions in the diagram occupied by star-forming galaxies and narrow-line AGNs. The solid line represents a locus of H ii region model points from Dopita & Evans (1986), where the metallicity of the models vary smoothly from high values in the lower right to low values in the upper left.

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