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BreakBRD Galaxies. I. Global Properties of Spiral Galaxies with Central Star Formation in Red Disks

  • Authors: Sarah E. Tuttle, and Stephanie Tonnesen

2020 The Astrophysical Journal 889 188.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Here we use the BPT diagram, used to identify the dominant ionization mechanism in the nebular emission lines of galaxies, to separate out AGNs from composite and star-forming galaxies. The underlying black contours show the distribution of the parent sample. The magenta line and the turquoise line are adopted from Kewley & Dopita (2002) and Kauffmann et al. (2003), respectively, to distinguish between AGN activity above the magenta line, star-forming activity below the turquoise line, and composite activity between the two. The overplotted points show our galaxy sample to be primarily star-forming, with all selected breakBRDs indicated by green circles. Eight galaxies are selected as AGNs (red squares).

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