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MMT Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxy Survey. I. An Efficient Technique to Identify Metal-Poor Galaxies

  • Authors: Warren R. Brown, Lisa J. Kewley, and Margaret J. Geller

BROWN, KEWLEY, & GELLER 2008 The Astronomical Journal 135 92.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Luminosity–metallicity plot for BCGs (Kong & Cheng 2002; Shi et al. 2005), metal-poor galaxies from 2dF (Papaderos et al. 2006) and SDSS (Kniazev et al. 2003), our metal-poor galaxies, and four nearby GRB host galaxies (Stanek et al. 2006). Our sample of metal-poor galaxies fills in the region defined by the GRB hosts; all these galaxies have lower metallicity by ~0.5 dex than the Richer & McCall (1995) luminosity–metallicity relation (dashed line) for normal dwarf irregulars.

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