The nature of LINER galaxies: Ubiquitous hot old stars and rare accreting black holes

R.S. acknowledges support by the IMPRS for Astronomy & Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg. K.J. is supported by the Emmy Noether-Programme of the German Science Foundation DFG under grant Ja 1114/3-2 and the German Space Agency DLR. G.v.d.V. and J.F.-B. acknowledge the DAGAL network from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ under REA grant agreement number PITN-GA-2011-289313. J.F.-B. further acknowledges financial support from the Ramon y Cajal Program and grant AYA2010-21322-C03-02 from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO). V.W. acknowledges support from the ERC Starting Grant SEDmorph. R. A. Marino was also funded by the spanish programme of International Campus of Excellence Moncloa (CEI).

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