Description
The 15R-North galaxy redshift survey is a uniform spectroscopic survey (S/N~10) covering the range 3650-7400{AA} for 3149 galaxies with median redshift 0.05. The sample is 90% complete to R=15.4. The median slit covering fraction is 24% of the galaxy, apparently sufficient to minimize the effects of aperture bias on the EW(H{alpha}). Forty-nine percent of the galaxies in the survey have one or more emission lines detected at >=2{sigma}. In agreement with previous surveys, the fraction of absorption-line galaxies increases steeply with galaxy luminosity. We use H{beta}, [O III], H{alpha}, and [N II] to discriminate between star-forming galaxies and AGNs. At least 20% of the galaxies are star-forming, at least 17% have AGN-like emission, and 12% have unclassifiable emission. The data for the entire survey will appear in Geller et al. 2002, in preparation.
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