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Caption: Figure 4.
Diagnostic diagram of [N ii]/Hα and [O iii]/Hβ. Each large point represents a single spatial pixel of OSIRIS, and the small
grey points are ~122,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with signal to noise ⩾5 in all relevant emission
lines. SDSS galaxies show a locus of star-forming galaxies, and a separate branch of AGNs extending to the upper right. The
dotted line shows the theoretical maximum [O iii]/Hβ from star forming regions (Kewley et al. 2001), and the dashed line is
an empirical division between star-forming galaxies and AGNs from Kauffmann et al. (2003). All regions of the lensed galaxies
are consistent with pure star formation, although [O iii]/Hβ is typically above the locus of SDSS star-forming galaxies at
z
0. This is commonly observed at high redshift and is attributed to a high ionization parameter (e.g., Hainline et al. 2009;
Erb et al. 2010).
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