The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - V. The catalogue
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-deg^2 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.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- October 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01907.x
- Bibcode:
- 1998MNRAS.300..417R
- Keywords:
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- CATALOGUES;
- GALAXIES: CLUSTERS: GENERAL;
- GALAXIES: DISTANCES AND REDSHIFTS;
- GALAXIES: GENERAL: COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS: LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE