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Table 3.

Comparison of the activity classification between our diagnostic and the 6.2 μm PAH EW classifier (EW6.2).

BPT-SFG (138)
EW6.2
SFG AGN Comp Total

This work SFG 124 0 0 124
NON-SFG 14 0 0 14
Total 138 0 0
BPT-AGN (127)

EW6.2
SFG AGN Comp Total

This work SFG 14 0 2 16
NON-SFG 30 51 30 111
Total 44 51 32
BPT-composite (108)

EW6.2
SFG AGN Comp Total

This work SFG 31 1 1 33
NON-SFG 62 8 5 75
Total 93 9 6

Notes. The SFG, AGN, and composite galaxies are from the S5 sample (Sect. 2.1). Here we compare our diagnostic with the classification method of Armus et al. (2007) (EW6.2), against the optical spectroscopic method (BPT), which we consider as ground truth.

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