The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey — V. The catalogue |
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Authors: | A. Ratcliffe,T. Shanks,Q. A. Parker,A. Broadbent,F. G. Watson,A. P. Oates,C. A. Collins,& R. Fong |
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Affiliation: | Physics Department, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE,;Anglo-Australian Observatory, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia,;Royal Greenwich Observatory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA,;Astrophysics Group, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF |
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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. |
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Keywords: | catalogues galaxies: clusters: general galaxies: distances and redshifts galaxies: general — cosmology: observations — large-scale structure of Universe |
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