Extreme emission line galaxies at z<~0.05 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Yang H.
  2. Malhotra S.
  3. Rhoads J.E.
  4. Wang J.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Searching for extreme emission line galaxies allows us to find low-mass metal-poor galaxies that are good analogs of high redshift Ly{alpha} emitting galaxies. These low-mass extreme emission line galaxies are also potential Lyman-continuum leakers. Finding them at very low redshifts (z<~0.05) allows us to be sensitive to even lower stellar masses and metallicities. We report on a sample of extreme emission line galaxies at z<~0.05 (blueberry galaxies). We selected them from SDSS broadband images on the basis of their broadband colors and studied their properties with MMT spectroscopy. From the entire SDSS DR12 photometric catalog, we found 51 photometric candidates. We spectroscopically confirm 40 as blueberry galaxies. These blueberries are dwarf starburst galaxies with very small sizes (<1kpc) and very high ionization ([OIII]/[OII]~10-60). They also have some of the lowest stellar masses (log(M/M_{sun}_)~6.5-7.5) and lowest metallicities (7.1<12+log(O/H)<7.8) of starburst galaxies. Thus, they are small counterparts to green pea galaxies and high redshift Ly{alpha} emitting galaxies.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. spectroscopy
  3. redshifted
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. sloan-photometry
  6. line-intensities
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017ApJ...847...38Y
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/847/38
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18470038

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History

2018-06-28T15:04:30Z
Resource record created
2018-06-28T15:04:30Z
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2020-02-03T07:01:26Z
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