4. Comparison with Markarian and blue Haro galaxies

Comparison with other peculiar galaxies (Markarian and blue Haro, in particular) in the same range of morphological types (Bottinelli et al. 1973a,b; 1975) presented in Table 3 shows that the variation range of derived parameters for Kazarian galaxies is practically the same for $M_{{\rm H}}/M_{{\rm i}}$, $M_{{\rm i}}/L$ and $\sigma_{{\rm h}}$ values. Notice that the units used for comparison are the same as given in Table 1.

In spite of a somewhat different range of the luminosity and hydrogen mass variation compared with Markarians, our sample galaxies vary within the same limits when considering representative ratio $M_{{\rm H}}/L$. By this parameter Kazarian and Markarian galaxies vary in the same and relatively narrow range compared with blue Haro objects.

It is worth noting a well known fact that the same values for classical galaxies (Heidmann 1969; Roberts 1969; Balkowski 1973; Shostak 1978; Bottinelli et al. 1982; Roberts & Haynes 1994) do not differ from those for Markarians and Haros (Bottinelli et al. 1973a,b; 1975).

The intermixing of Kazarian, Markarian and blue Haro galaxies is well seen on the three-ratio diagram (showing $M_{{\rm H}}/M_{{\rm i}}$ versus $M_{{\rm H}}/L$ plot) displayed in Fig. 4.

Figure 4: Three-ratio diagram for the Kazarian, Markarian and blue Haro galaxies displaying H I mass to indicative total mass ratio versus H I mass to luminosity (in solar units). Three values of the total indicative mass to luminosity ratio, in solar units, are also indicated along the straight lines

It is well known that primarily a given normal galaxy of the Hubble sequence has particular parameters corresponding to its morphological type (Balkowski 1973; Bottinelli et al. 1982) and then a second approximation these values are also related to the luminosity.

  

Table 3: H I related parameters variation range

Parameter		Galaxy type
	Kazarian	Haro	Markarian
$M_{{\rm H}}$	0.30 - 29.0	0.11 - 5.4	0.017 - 11.0
L	0.70 - 77.0	0.3 - 107.0	0.058 - 57.0
$M_{{\rm i}}$	5.40 - 619.0	4.4 - 74.4	1.5 - 400.0
$M_{{\rm H}}/L$	0.07 - 1.3	0.029 - 1.1	0.12 - 3.8
$M_{{\rm H}}/M_{{\rm i}}$	0.95 - 87.0	0.92 - 41.6	1.2 - 8.8
$M_{{\rm i}}/L$	0.62 - 75.6	0.57 - 39.5	3.0 - 62.0
$\sigma_{{\rm h}}$	0.95 - 29.3	0.6 - 4.1	0.3 - 7.5

In the case of Kazarian galaxies (as well as Markarians and Haro blue galaxies) not all the integral parameters of a given galaxy have the values expected for a single morphological type. To demonstrate this, we determined for each Kazarian galaxy its most probable morphological type expected from the derived values of the 5 parameters ( $\sigma_{{\rm h}}$, $\sigma_{{\rm h}}/a_{0}$, $M_{{\rm H}}/M_{{\rm i}}$, $M_{{\rm H}}/L$ and W) following the method described in Bottinelli et al. (1975). Obviously a good agreement with its classical type is always expected when this method is applied for a single galaxy.

As a result, we found only 7 galaxies with all above mentioned parameters corresponding to its given morphological type. A mild agreement was found for 5 galaxies and none for the remaining 11 galaxies of our sample.

Taking into account the luminosity effect which leads to the modification of all used parameters except $\sigma_{{\rm h}}$ (Balkowski 1973) and following the scheme described in Bottinelli et al. (1975) we finally found that no classical morphological type can be assigned for 7 galaxies (Kaz 23, 63, 69, 211, 228, 512, 579) while well defined types for 10 galaxies were obtained.

All this suggests a rather high relative number of Kazarian galaxies (7 out of 23) featuring certain peculiarities. The careful comparative study of their optical and H I properties is needed to clarify the nature of these peculiarities.

In the next section brief comments on the optical properties of some peculiar objects are given.