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CECILIA: Ultradeep Rest-optical Spectra of Faint Galaxies at Cosmic Noon

  • Authors: Menelaos Raptis, Ryan F. Trainor, Allison L. Strom, Gwen C. Rudie, Noah S. J. Rogers, Charles C. Steidel, Michael V. Maseda, Caroline von Raesfeld, Nathalie A. Korhonen Cuestas

Menelaos Raptis et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

The rest-frame NIRSpec G235M stack spectrum (NB, fLBGs, and serendipitous sources). The purple line represents the 1D extracted spectrum, while the blue line illustrates the Gaussian+linear continuum fit to the emission lines. The gray shaded area indicates the error margin. A horizontal dashed black line at y = 0 marks the zero level. Black dashed vertical lines indicate the positions of key spectral features—most of which are shown in the bottom panels—as well as emission lines with >2σ detections. Individual spectra are normalized by their integrated Hα flux prior to stacking. The resulting stacked spectrum is then rescaled such that the Hα peak of the fit model has a value of 100, allowing all other emission line peaks to be expressed as percentages of the Hα peak.

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