Radial velocities and spectrophotometric properties of southern binary galaxies

We present spectrophotometry of a sample of 26 Southern binary galaxies 17 pairs were confirmed to be physically associated with typical separation of 136 h^{-1} kpc. Pairs with velocity difference Delta v >= 600 km s^{-1} are probably not physically bound. A comparison with field galaxies suggests that galaxies in pairs tend to have a younger population probably stimulated by tidal interaction. No correlation between the young population and projected separation was found. Table 1 is also available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abs tract.html