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Issue A&A Volume 390, Number 3, August II 2002 Page(s) L15 - L18 Section Letters DOI 10.1051/0004-6361:20020476

A&A 390, L15-L18 (2002)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020476

Letter

Two emission line objects with in the optical filament apparently connecting the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7603 to its companion

M. López-Corredoira^{1, 2} and C. M. Gutiérrez<sup>1

1</sup>  Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
²  Astronomisches Institut der Universität Basel, Venusstrasse 7, 4102 Binningen, Switzerland

(Received 24 January 2002 / Accepted 26 March 2002)

Abstract
We present new spectroscopic observations of an old case of anomalous redshift - NGC 7603 and its companion. The redshifts of the two galaxies which are apparently connected by a luminous filament are z=0.029 and z=0.057 respectively. We show that in the luminous filament there are two compact emission line objects with z=0.243 and z=0.391. They lie exactly on the line traced by the filament connecting the galaxies. As far as we are aware, this is the most impressive case of a system of anomalous redshifts discovered so far.

Key words: galaxies: individual: NGC 7603 -- quasars: general -- galaxies: statistics -- galaxies: peculiar -- distance scale

Offprint request: M. López-Corredoira, martinlc@astro.unibas.ch

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