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Compact Galaxies in the Virgo Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. J. Drinkwater ,
E. Hardy  and
J. M. Yearlsey
M. J. Drinkwater
Affiliation:
Anglo-Australian Observatory, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia
E. Hardy
Affiliation:
Dépt, de Physique, Université Laval, Québec, Qué. G1K 7P4, Canada
J. M. Yearlsey
Affiliation:
MAPS, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom

Abstract

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We present the preliminary results of a search for new blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies in the Virgo cluster. Our search is based on the automated selection of compact galaxies from digitised scans of UK Schmidt plates and is designed to put quantitative limits on the luminosity function of compact galaxies in Virgo.

We have selected a sample of 310 candidate BCD galaxies and have obtained radial velocities for 177 of them using the UK Schmidt FLAIR-II multi-object fibre spectrograph. We have confirmed two new members of the cluster. One is classified as a member (but without velocity) in the Binggeli, Sandage and Tammann (1985) catalogue (VCC) and the other does not appear in the VCC and is therefore probably a new BCD. The other 175 galaxies are background objects at higher redshift, including one classified as ”BCD or background“ in the VCC which we now confirm to be a background object.

Type
V. Astronomy from Optical Fibre Feeds
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 148: The Future Utilisation of Schmidt Telescopes , 1995 , pp. 111 - 115
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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