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Satellite Streaks in HETDEX: Spectra, Orbital Identification, and Survey Impact

  • Authors: Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis, Daniel J. Farrow, Barbara G. Castanheira, Gavin Dalton, Gary J. Hill, Stephen C. Hummel, Chenxu Liu, 辰旭 刘, Shiro Mukae, Shun Saito, Donald P. Schneider, Sarah Tuttle

Erin Mentuch Cooper et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Spectral properties of the HETDEX satellite-streak sample. Left: median-stacked spectra, normalized to unity at 4500 Å, for the full sample (black), the bright subsample (g ≤ 17; dark blue), and the faint subsample (g  >  17; teal). Dashed vertical lines mark the wavelengths of prominent solar Fraunhofer features (Ca II H&K, the CH G band, the Balmer series, and Mg b) for reference; the smooth continua are consistent with reflected sunlight. Right: the per-streak blue index, the ratio of flux near 3600 Å to that near 4500 Å, versus mean spectral signal-to-noise ratio for the bright (dark blue) and faint (teal) subsamples.

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