2 The sample

In the following, we describe results from B and R imagery on a new sample of 22 objects selected from several Southern Sky catalogs. Our interest residing in compact H II galaxies, we selected objects at low redshift (typically smaller than 2000 km s^-1), with estimates of absolute magnitudes $M_b \ge -17$ using the same selection criteria as for the objects described in Paper I.

Ten objects in the present work come from the Tololo sample ([Smith et al.1976]; [Bohuski et al.1978]) and three from the University of Michigan (UM) survey ([MacAlpine & Lewis1978]; [MacAlpine et al.1977] and [MacAlphine & Williams1981]). We also used both Tololo and UM surveys with good spectroscopic follow-up ([Salzer et al.1989a]; [Terlevich et al. 1991]$\!\!$). Three objects come from Zwicky's southern lists, investigated by [Rodgers et al.(1978)], and four objects come from Fairall's list of compact galaxies ([Fairall1977]; [Fairall1981]), recognized as HII galaxies by follow-up spectroscopy; among these, two were already in the Tololo lists. The galaxy 13209-2723 has been found by Surace & Comte (1997) in an objective-prism survey conducted with the ESO 1 m Schmidt telescope, described in Surace & Comte (1994). Haro 14 and the well-known compact Mk 600 have been added to the list. Finally, Mk 996 has been re-observed because of the apparent inconsistency of the results of Paper I with those derived by [Thuan et al.(1996)] with the Hubble Space Telescope. UM 465 has been also re-observed in order to be able to derive the surface photometry of its small companion (UM 465B, see Paper I).

  

Table 1: List of selected objects

Table 1 lists the observed galaxies. The apparent magnitudes are the estimated magnitudes given in the original lists.