Survey for emission-line galaxies: Universidad Complutense de Madrid list 3

A new low-dispersion objective-prism search for low-redshift (z<0.045) emission-line galaxies (ELGs) has been carried out by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid using the Schmidt Telescope at the Calar-Alto Observatory. This is a continuation of the UCM Survey, which was performed by visual sel...

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Autores: Alonso, O., García Dabó, C. E., Zamorano Calvo, Jaime, Gallego Maestro, Jesús, Rego Fernández, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/59809
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59809
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:52
Spectroscopic properties
Morphological analysis
UCM galaxies
Sample
Photometry
Objects
Plates
Mama
Astrofísica
Astronomía (Física)
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Sumario:A new low-dispersion objective-prism search for low-redshift (z<0.045) emission-line galaxies (ELGs) has been carried out by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid using the Schmidt Telescope at the Calar-Alto Observatory. This is a continuation of the UCM Survey, which was performed by visual selection of candidates in photographic plates via the presence of the Hα+[N II] λ6584 blend in emission. In making this new list we have applied an automatic procedure, fully developed by us, for selecting and analyzing ELG candidates on the digitized images obtained with the Machine Automatique à Mesurer pour l'Astronomie (MAMA). The analyzed region of the sky covers 189 deg^2 in nine fields near α=14^h and 17^h, δ=25 ºC. The final sample contains 113 candidates. Special effort has been made to obtain a large amount of information directly from our uncalibrated plates by using several external calibrations. The parameters obtained for the ELG candidates allow us to study the statistical properties of the sample.