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Caption: Figure 5.
COSMOS Survey detections of emission-line galaxies with a blue continuum in the NB816 filter, which includes emission-line
sources brighter than
F = 10
−16.85 erg s
−1 cm
−2. Components of this sample are [O ii] emission at
z ≈ 1.19, [O iii] at
z ≈ 0.63, and Hα at
z ≈ 0.25. The smaller circle is the IMACS field of our 2008 search; the larger circle, with a 0
70 radius, is the area we used for determining the foreground contamination per area. (This is most but not all of the rectangular
area of the NB816 catalog.) Large-scale structure in the distribution of foreground galaxies can be clearly seen, particularly
for the [O ii] emitters.
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