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Caption: Figure 3.
Bootstrap test using Fe I VALD combined curves for solar-analog stars. Gray and orange lines show, respectively, for individual calibrators (ages 3–7 Gyr) and noncalibrators, the robust σ([Fe/H]) and median half-width vs. subset size M; blue curves show the median over all stars; red curves are ﹩\alpha /\sqrt{M}﹩ fits. Both metrics decline approximately as expected from statistical averaging.
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