Caitlin M. Casey

Above is a plot from Casey et al. (2014b) providing a template SED for galaxies which contaminate high-z Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) selections, particularly those based on drop-out or color-cut techniques. The contaminating dusty galaxy population is for the most part at lower redshift than the LBG selection redshift. We hope this template is of use to those refining LBG selection techniques at the earliest epochs. If used, please cite the above paper. Thanks!

Download Contaminate SED here: lbgcontam.txt

It's in ascii format, wavelength given as log(microns) and observed flux given as log(erg/s/cm/AA) and 'fluxerr' represents the uncertainty in the log of the flux as given. Feel free to contact me with questions.