TY - JOUR
T1 - The 6dF Galaxy Survey
T2 - Final redshift release (DR3) and southern large-scale structures
AU - Jones, D. Heath
AU - Read, Mike A.
AU - Saunders, Will
AU - Colless, Matthew
AU - Jarrett, Tom
AU - Parker, Quentin A.
AU - Fairall, Anthony P.
AU - Mauch, Thomas
AU - Sadler, Elaine M.
AU - Watson, Fred G.
AU - Burton, Donna
AU - Campbell, Lachlan A.
AU - Cass, Paul
AU - Croom, Scott M.
AU - Dawe, John
AU - Fiegert, Kristin
AU - Frankcombe, Leela
AU - Hartley, Malcolm
AU - Huchra, John
AU - James, Dionne
AU - Kirby, Emma
AU - Lahav, Ofer
AU - Lucey, John
AU - Mamon, Gary A.
AU - Moore, Lesa
AU - Peterson, Bruce A.
AU - Prior, Sayuri
AU - Proust, Dominique
AU - Russell, Ken
AU - Safouris, Vicky
AU - Wakamatsu, Ken Ichi
AU - Westra, Eduard
AU - Williams, Mary
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - We report the final redshift release of the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS), 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) ≤ (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 data base. We describe changes to the information in the data base since earlier interim data releases. Future releases will include velocity dispersions, distances and peculiar velocities for the brightest early-type galaxies, comprising about 10 per cent of the sample. Here we provide redshift maps of the southern local Universe with z ≤ 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 data base is http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dFGS.
AB - We report the final redshift release of the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS), 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) ≤ (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 data base. We describe changes to the information in the data base since earlier interim data releases. Future releases will include velocity dispersions, distances and peculiar velocities for the brightest early-type galaxies, comprising about 10 per cent of the sample. Here we provide redshift maps of the southern local Universe with z ≤ 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 data base is http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dFGS.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15338.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15338.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70349863275
VL - 399
SP - 683
EP - 698
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
SN - 1745-3925
IS - 2
ER -