The Hamburg/SAO survey for emission–line galaxies ^*

III. The third list of 81 galaxies

¹ Universitätssternwarte München, Scheiner Str. 1, D-81679 München, Germany
² Visiting astronomer at Calar Alto Observatory, Spain
³ Hamburger Sternwarte, Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany
⁴ National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ 85726-6732, U.S.A.
⁵ Special Astrophysical Observatory, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Karachai-Circessia 357147, Russia
⁶ Main Astronomical Observatory, Goloseevo, Kiev-127 03680, Ukraine
⁷ Visiting astronomer at Kitt Peak Observatory, U.S.A.
⁸ Wise Observatory, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
⁹ Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Aptdo. 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain
¹⁰ Département de Radioastronomie ARPEGES, Observatoire de Paris, F-92195 Meudon Cedex, France

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Received: 14 October 1999
Accepted: 22 December 1999

Abstract


We present the third list with results of the Hamburg/SAO Survey for Emission-Line Galaxies (HSS therein, SAO – Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia). This survey is based on the digitized objective-prism photoplate database of the Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS). 
Here, we present new spectroscopic results of candidates which were obtained in 1998 with the 2.1 m KPNO and the 2.2 m Calar Alto telescopes. All candidates are selected in the declination band +35° to +40°. 
The follow-up spectroscopy with the 2 m class telescopes confirmed 85 emission-line objects out of 113 observed candidates and allowed their quantitative spectral classification. For 80 of them, the redshifts are determined for the first time. For 5 previously known ELGs, line ratios are presented for the first time. We could classify 55 out of the 85 emission-line objects as BCG/H ii galaxies or probable BCGs, 4 – as QSOs, 6 – as Seyfert galaxies, 1 – as super-association in a subluminous spiral galaxy, and 11 are low-excitation objects – either starburst nuclear (SBN), or dwarf amorphous nuclei starburst galaxies (DANS). We could not classify 8 ELGs. Further, for 8 more galaxies we did not detect any significant emission lines.