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Star-powered LINERs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2019-08-15 v2

Abstract

Galaxies are usually classified as star forming or active by using diagnostic diagrams, such as [N II]/Halpha vs. [O III]/Hbeta. Active galaxies are further classified into Seyfert or LINER-like sources. We claim that a non-negligible fraction of galaxies classified as LINERs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey are in fact ionized by hot post-AGB stars and white dwarfs.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0902.0528,
  title  = {Star-powered LINERs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey},
  author = {N. Vale Asari and G. Stasinska and R. Cid Fernandes and J. M. Gomes and M. Schlickmann and A. Mateus and W. Schoenell and L. Sodre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.0528},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

To appear in the proceedings of "The Starburst-AGN Connection" conference (2008). Corrected Fig. 3

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