First results from the 2dF galaxy redshift survey

Preprint

7 April 1998

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9804079

Abstract

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey is a major new initiative to map a representative volume of the universe. The survey makes use of the 2dF multi-fibre spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian Telescope to measure redshifts for over 250,000 galaxies brighter than B=19.5 and a further 10,000 galaxies brighter than R=21. The main goals of the survey are to characterise the large-scale structure of the universe and quantify the properties of the galaxy population at low redshifts. This paper describes the design of the survey and presents some preliminary results from the first 8000 galaxy redshifts to be measured.

Keywords

GALAXIES BRIGHTER
GALAXY REDSHIFT
REDSHIFT SURVEY
BRIGHTER THAN
2DF GALAXY
REDSHIFTS
SURVEY

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Published version: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 357 (1750), 105.

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