We conducted follow-up spectroscopy within the third declination slice of candidates from the Hamburg/SAO Survey for ELGs. Summarizing the results presented, the analysis of the content of various types of objects, and the discussion above, we draw the following conclusions:
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft No. 436 RUS 17/77/94. U.A.V. is grateful to the staff of the Hamburg Observatory for their hospitality and kind assistance. Y.I.I. thanks the staff of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories for their kind hospitality. Support by the INTAS grant No. 96-0500 was crucial to proceed with the Hamburg/SAO survey declination band centered on +37.5. SAO authors appreciate the partial financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant No. 96-02-16398 and from the Russian Center of Cosmoparticle Physics "Cosmion''. The authors acknowledge the use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).
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