Bibcode
Bongiovanni, A.; Bruzual, G.; Magris, G.; Gallego, J.; García-Dabó, C. E.; Coppi, P.; Sabbey, C.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 359, Issue 3, pp. 930-940.
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2005
Citations
10
Refereed citations
9
Description
We present the CIDA-UCM-Yale (Centro de Investigaciones de
Astronomía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Yale
University) Survey (CUYS) for Hα+[NII]
6549,6584Åemission-line galaxies (ELGs) using objective-prism
spectra. The most important properties of a catalogue with 427 entries
and significant subsets are analysed. The complete sample contains 183
statistically confirmed ELGs in a sky area of 151 deg2 and
redshift up to 0.14. We determine the parameters of the Hα
luminosity function using the Hα+[NII] flux directly measured on
the ELG spectra in this sample, and the star formation rate density
derived is in agreement with values reported in the literature. Finally,
we study the clustering properties of local star-forming galaxies
relative to quiescent ones from different perspectives. We find that
ELGs avoid dense regions of quiescent galaxies and we propose a
power-law expression to parametrize the relation between star formation
rate density and environment volume density of ELGs.