Foreground Contamination Evaluator of Nearby dwarf stars in high-Z photometrically selected Objects (FC-ENZO)

FC-ENZO is like a super-smart sidekick who helps the detective solve the mystery of the fake galaxies.

Technical definition

A code developed to predict the number of ultra-cool dwarf misidentifications as high-redshift galaxies by modeling the number of UCDs and evaluating the fraction of synthesized dwarf stars that pass user-specified selection methods.

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