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High-ionization emission in metal-deficient BCDs

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Primordial stars are expected to be very massive and hot, producing copious amounts of hard ionizing radiation.

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The best place to study hard ionizing radiation in the local universe is in very metal- deficient blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies. We have carried out a MMT spectroscopic search for [NeV] {lambda}3426 (ionization potential of 7.1Ryd), [FeV] {lambda}4227 (ionization potential of 4Ryd), and HeII {lambda}4686 (ionization potential of 4Ryd) emission in a sample of 18 BCDs.

We have added data from previous work and from the Data Release 3 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Cat. <II/259>). In total, we have assembled a BCD high-ionization sample with [NeV] emission in four galaxies, [FeV] emission in 15 galaxies, and HeII emission in 465 galaxies.

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