The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Final redshift release (DR3) and southern large-scale structures
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Article Title | The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Final redshift release (DR3) and southern large-scale structures |
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ERA Journal ID | 1074 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Heath Jones, D. (Author), Read, Mike A. (Author), Saunders, Will (Author), Colless, Matthew (Author), Jarrett, Tom (Author), Parker, Quentin A. (Author), Fairall, Anthony P. (Author), Mauch, Thomas (Author), Sadler, Elaine M. (Author), Watson, Fred G. (Author), Burton, Donna (Author), Campbell, Lachlan A. (Author), Cass, Paul (Author), Croom, Scott M. (Author), Dawe, John (Author), Fiegert, Kristin (Author), Frankcombe, Leela (Author), Hartley, Malcolm (Author), Huchra, John (Author), James, Dionne (Author), Kirby, Emma (Author), Lahav, Ofer (Author), Lucey, John (Author), Mamon, Gary A. (Author), Moore, Lesa (Author), Peterson, Bruce A. (Author), Prior, Sayuri (Author), Proust, Dominique (Author), Russell, Ken (Author), Safouris, Vicky (Author), Wakamatsu, Ken-cihi (Author), Westra, Eduard (Author) and Williams, Mary (Author) |
Journal Title | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Journal Citation | 399 (2), pp. 683-698 |
Number of Pages | 19 |
Year | 2009 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0035-8711 |
1365-2966 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15338.x |
Web Address (URL) | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/399/2/683/1060396 |
Abstract | We report the final redshift release of the 6dF Galaxy Survey, a combined redshift and peculiar velocity survey over the southern sky (|b| > 10◦). Its 136 304 spectra have yielded 110 256 new extragalactic redshifts and a new catalogue of 125 071 galaxies making near-complete samples with (K,H, J, rF, bJ) 6(12.65, 12.95, 13.75, 15.60, 16.75). The median redshift of the survey is 0.053. Survey data, including images, spectra, photometry and redshifts, are available through an online database. We describe changes to the information in the database since earlier interim data releases. Future releases will include velocity dispersions, distances and peculiar velocities for the brightest early-type galaxies, comprising about 10% of the sample. Here we provide redshift maps of the southern local universe with z 6 0.1, showing nearby large-scale structures in hitherto unseen detail. A number of regions known previously to have a paucity of galaxies are confirmed as significantly underdense regions. The URL of the 6dFGS database is http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dFGS. |
Keywords | surveys — galaxies; clustering — galaxies; distances and redshifts— cosmology; observations — cosmology; large scale structure of universe |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510103. Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy |
Public Notes | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2009 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
Byline Affiliations | Anglo-Australian Observatory, Australia |
Royal Observatory Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States | |
Australian Astronomical Observatory, Australia | |
University of Cape Town, South Africa | |
University of Oxford, United Kingdom | |
University of Sydney | |
University of New South Wales | |
Center for Astrophysics Harvard and Smithsonian, United States | |
Australian National University | |
University College London, United Kingdom | |
Durham University, United Kingdom | |
Paris Observatory, France | |
Gifu University, Japan | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Funding source | Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant ID DP-0208876 |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2vx3/the-6df-galaxy-survey-final-redshift-release-dr3-and-southern-large-scale-structures
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