Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies in the Local Universe

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2004-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410127v1

Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) 1004-1016

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in the 20 December 2004 ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/425414

We use the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey (KISS) for emission-line galaxies to identify and describe a sample of local analogues to the luminous compact blue galaxies (LCBGs) that are observed to be abundant at intermediate and high redshift. The sample is selected using criteria believed effective at isolating true examples of LCBGs: SB_e(B-band) < 21.0 mag/arcsec^2, M(B) < -18.5 (for H_o = 75 km/s/Mpc), and B-V < 0.6. Additionally, all LCBG candidates presented are selected to have star-formation as their dominant form of activity. We examine the properties of our LCBGs and compare them to those of other KISS star-forming galaxies of the same absolute magnitude range. We find that the KISS LCBGs lie on the extreme end of a fairly continuous distribution of ``normal'' star-forming galaxies in the plane of surface brightness versus color. This result differs from the results of previous studies that show LCBGs at higher-z to be more separate from the ``normal'' (usually non-active) galaxies they are compared against. On average, LCBGs have a higher tendency to emit detectable flux in the radio continuum, have higher H-alpha luminosities by a factor of 1.6, indicating strong star-formation activity, and have slightly lower than expected metal abundances based on the luminosity-metallicity relation for KISS galaxies. We calculate the volume density of our low-z (z<0.045) sample to be 5.4 x 10^-4 h_75^3 Mpc^-3, approximately 4 times lower than the volume density of the LCBGs at 0.4 < z < 0.7 and ~10 times lower than the volume density of the population at 0.7 < z < 1.0.

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