Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995a%26as..113..399a&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, v.113, p.399
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Methods: Data Analysis, Techniques: Image Processing, Surveys, Galaxies: General
Scientific paper
A full set of algorithms for the automatic analysis of low-resolution objective-prism spectra has been developed with the aim of finding new emission-line galaxies (ELGs) candidates from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) survey prism plates. An objective-prism plate and a direct plate, used for pairing objects and to perform star-galaxy separation, have been scanned with the MAMA machine. The plates were taken in the red region of the spectrum, using the Hα+[NII] blend in emission as selection criterion. The procedure, applied to digitized spectra, is able to automatically select ELGs candidates. Density to intensity transformation has not been used in our method; the detection of the emission is performed applying three independent criteria over the one-dimensional spectra in raw data. The automatically selected sample is compared with that obtained after a careful visual scan. Spectroscopic observations at moderate spectral resolution are presented for the whole sample of candidates in order to study the drawbacks and the biases of both methods.
Alonso O.
Gallego Jesus
Rego M.
Zamorano Jaime
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