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Authors:
G. Gavazzi, M. Fumagalli, V. Galardo, F. Grossetti,
A. Boselli, R. Giovanelli, M.P. Haynes. S. Fabello
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Abstract:
We present Hα3 (acronym for Hα-αα), an Hα narrow-band imaging survey of ~ 400
galaxies selected from the HI Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA)
in the Local Supercluster, including the Virgo cluster.
By using hydrogen recombination lines as a tracer of recent star formation, we aim to
investigate the relationships between atomic neutral gas and newly formed stars
in different environments (cluster and field), morphological types
(spirals and dwarfs), and over a wide range of stellar masses
(~ 107.5-1011.5 solar masses).
We image in Hα+[NII] all the galaxies that contain more than 107 solar masses of neutral atomic hydrogen
in the sky region 11h < R.A. < 16h ; 4o< Dec. < 16o; 350 < cz < 2000 km s-1
using
the San Pedro Martir 2m telescope. This survey provides a complete census
of the star formation in HI rich galaxies of the local
universe.
We present the properties of the galaxy sample,
together with Hα fluxes and equivalent widths.
We find an excellent agreement between the fluxes determined from our images
in apertures of 3 arcsec diameter and the fluxes derived from the SDSS
spectral database.
From the Hα fluxes corrected for galactic and internal extinction and for
[NII] contamination we derive the global star formation rates (SFRs).
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