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A Search for Peculiar Objects with the NASA Orbital Debris Observatory 3-m Liquid Mirror Te

a s t r o - p h / 9 8 0 4 2 6 7 v 2 2 7 A p r 1 9 9 8 1 A Search for Peculiar Objects with the NASA Orbital Debris Observatory 3-m Liquid Mirror Telescope Rémi A. Cabanac cabanac@phy.ulaval.ca Département de Physique, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada tel. (418) 656-2131 ext 6192, fax (418) 656-2040 Ermanno F. Borra borra@phy.ulaval.ca Département de Physique, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada tel. (418) 656-7405, fax (418) 656-2040 Mario Beauchemin mabeauch@ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca Natural Resources Canada, 588 Booth Str., # 411, Ottawa, ON K1A 0Y7, Canada tel. (613) 943-8829, fax. (947)-1406 2Abstract. The NASA Orbital Debris Observatory (NODO) astronomical survey uses a transit 3-m liquid mirror telescope to observe a strip of sky in 20 narrow-band filters. In this article, we analyze a subset of data from the 1996 observing season. The catalog consists of 18,000 objects with 10V19 observed in 10 narrow-band filters ranging from 500 nm to 950 nm. We first demonstrate the reliability of the data by fitting the Bahcall-Soneira model of the Galaxy to the NODO magnitude counts and color counts at various galactic latitudes. We then perform a hierarchical clustering analysis on the sample to extract 206 objects, out of a total of 18,000, showing peculiar spectral energy distributions. It is a measure of the reliability of the instrument that we extract so few peculiar objects. Although the data and results, per se, may not seem otherwise particularly remarkable, this work constitutes a milestone in optical astronomy since this is the first article that demonstrates astronomical research with a radically new type of mirror. Subject headings: instrumentation: miscellaneous, surveys, stars: peculiar, Galaxy: general, galaxies: peculiar, quasars: general. 31. INTRODUCTION It has been known for centuries that the surface of a liquid spinning in a gravitational field has a parabolic shape. In principle, a spinning container filled with a refle