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Fig. 10

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Left: unit-weighted spectral coadditions of VVDS spectra of galaxies detected in at least one SPIRE band at 3σ for three different luminosity bins. Each coadded spectrum contains ~50 galaxies, with only VVDS galaxies being used as ORELSE galaxies comprise only 5% of any given sample. Important spectral lines are overplotted and spectra are offset vertically for clarity. Though all LTIR subsamples of the full SPIRE sample show strong [OII] emission and strong Balmer features, which indicate significant ongoing star formation, the subsamples also show marked differences. Right: differenced coadded spectra of the three LTIR subsamples. The high-LTIR subsample appears to be comprised of galaxies which, on average, have stronger [OII] emission and much stronger Balmer absorption features than either of their lower-LTIR counterparts. Also clearly visible are weaker features associated with older stellar populations (CaII H&K and G-band) in the average high-LTIR galaxy relative to the other two LTIR samples. The average galaxy in the moderate-LTIR subsample largely continues this trend relative to that of the low-LTIR subsample.

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