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Comments on the Detection and Classification of Compact Emission-Line Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

T. D. Kinman
T. D. Kinman*
Affiliation:
Kitt Peak National Observatory

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Four methods for finding emission-line galaxies have been compared. Method (a) uses the ultraviolet excess, as found either by filter photography (Haro 1956) or by objective prism spectra (Markarian 1967). glanco (1974) introduced a thin prism with the CTIO Schmidt (1740 Å mm-1 at Hβ) which with IIIa-J plates [Method (b)] gave enough resolution for Smith (1975) and MacAlpine et al. (1977a, 1977b) to detect and classify galaxies by strong emission lines. Following a suggestion by McCarthy that even higher dispersion might be useful, I have used the CTIO Schmidt with [Method (c)] the 4° prism, a GGl+55 filter and IIIa-J emulsion and with [Method (d)] the 10° prism, an RG630 filter and IIIa-F emulsion. These latter give about 400 Å mm-1 at Hβ and Hα respectively which improves the visibility of emission lines against the galaxy continuum so that [0111] 5007 and 4959 and Hβ can be seen on the green plates and Hα and [SII] 6725 can be seen on the red plates.

Type
III Criteria and Applications Outside the MK Domain
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 47: Spectral Classification of the Future , 1979 , pp. 151 - 153
Copyright
Copyright © Vatican Observatory 1979

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