The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - V. The catalogue

A. Ratcliffe; T. Shanks; Q. A. Parker; A. Broadbent; F. G. Watson; A. P. Oates; C. A. Collins; R. Fong

The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - V. The catalogue

A. Ratcliffe^*, T. Shanks, Q. A. Parker, A. Broadbent, F. G. Watson, A. P. Oates, C. A. Collins, R. Fong

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Abstract

We present the radial velocities and blue, optical magnitudes for all of the galaxies within the Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey. This catalogue consists of ∼2500 galaxy redshifts to a limiting apparent magnitude of b_J ≃ 17 mag, covering a ∼1500-deg² area around the South Galactic Pole. The galaxies in this survey were selected from the Edinburgh/Durham Southern Galaxy Catalogue and were sampled, in order of apparent magnitude, at a rate of one galaxy in every three. The spectroscopy was performed at the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia using the FLAIR multi-object spectrograph. We show that our radial velocity measurements made with this instrument have an empirical accuracy of ±150 km s^-1. The observational techniques and data reduction procedures used in the construction of this survey are also discussed. This survey demonstrates that the UKST can be used to make a three-dimensional map of the large-scale galaxy distribution, via a redshift survey to b_J ≃ 17 mag, over a wide area of the sky.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	417-462
Number of pages	46
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	300
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 21 Oct 1998
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Catalogues
Cosmology: observations
Galaxies: clusters: general
Galaxies: distances and redshifts
Galaxies: general
Large-scale structure of Universe

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