Issue |
Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 137, Number 2, June I 1999
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Page(s) | 299 - 304 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999483 | |
Published online | 15 June 1999 |
The Hamburg/SAO survey for emission–line galaxies *,**
II. The second list of 128 galaxies
1
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Karachai-Circessia, 357147, Russia
2
Hamburger Sternwarte, Gojenbergswerg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany
3
Main Astronomical Observatory, Goloseevo, Kiev-22, 252650, Ukraine
4
Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
Received:
21
December
1998
Accepted:
19
March
1999
We present the second part
of the Hamburg/SAO Survey for Emission-Line Galaxies
(HSS therein, SAO – Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia) which is
based on the digitized objective-prism photoplates database of the Hamburg
Quasar Survey (HQS).
The main goal of the project is the search for emission-line galaxies (ELG)
in order to create a new deep sample of blue compact/Hii galaxies (BCG)
in a large sky area. Another important goal of this work is to search for
new extremely low-metallicity galaxies. In this paper we present new results
of spectroscopy obtained with the 6 m Russian telescope.
The main ELG candidate selection criteria applied are blue or flat enough
continuum (near λ4000 Å) and the presence of strong or moderate
[Oiii]
4959, 5007 Å emission lines recognized
on digitized prism spectra of galaxies with the survey estimated B-magnitudes
in the range
. No other criteria were applied.
The spectroscopy resulted in detection and quantitative spectral
classification of 134 emission-line objects. For 121 of them the redshifts
are determined for the first time.
For 13 ELGs known before emission line ratios are presented at first time.
108 of 134 emission-line objects are classified as BCG/Hii galaxies and
probable BCGs, 6 – as QSOs, 1 – as Seyfert galaxy, 1 – as
super-association in a dwarf spiral galaxy, 2 – as probable LINERs,
14 are low excitation objects – either of starburst nuclei (SBN),
or dwarf amorphous nuclei starburst galaxy (DANS) type, and
2 – nonclassified. 23 galaxies did not show significant emission lines.
The five most metal-deficient BCGs discovered have oxygen abundances
log(O/H)+12 in the range 7.4 to 7.7, similar to the most metal-deficient
BCGs known before.
Key words: surveys / galaxies: distances and redshifts / galaxies: starburst / galaxies: compact
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