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Astrophysics

diagnostic plot of emission-line flux ratios that separates star-forming galaxies from those ionized by active nuclei or shocks.

In astrophysics, BPT diagram refers to diagnostic plot of emission-line flux ratios that separates star-forming galaxies from those ionized by active nuclei or shocks. This meaning comes from Baldwin (1981) in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.[1]

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References

Baldwin, J. A., Phillips, M. M., & Terlevich, R. (1981). Classification parameters for the emission-line spectra of extragalactic objects. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 93, 5. https://doi.org/10.1086/130766

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