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Hα Dots: A Catalog of Faint Emission-line Objects Discovered in Narrowband Images

  • Authors: Jessica A. Kellar, John J. Salzer, Gary Wegner, Caryl Gronwall, and Anna Williams

Kellar et al. 2012 The Astronomical Journal 143 145.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Example spectra of [O iii]-detected Hα dots taken using the MDM 2.4 m telescope. The upper (Hα dot 19) and lower (Hα dot 59) spectra are of star-forming galaxies, while the middle spectrum (Hα dot 21) is a Seyfert 2 galaxy. Hα dot 21 is the object indicated in the upper left portion of the images shown in Figure 1.

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