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                    Caption: Figure 21.
Stacked average spectra for faint star-forming galaxies in merging clusters, binned by rest-frame Hα EWs. The 68% confidence intervals are plotted. We only show sources with i-band magnitudes >20 and Hα luminosities between 1040 and 1042 erg s−1. The average [N II]/Hα ratio decreases with increasing Hα EW. From the low [N II]/Hα ratios, we can infer that the unique population of faint galaxies with high EW (sSFRs) in merging clusters have very low metallicities.
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