The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: spectra and redshifts

Matthew Colless(Australian National University), Gavin Dalton(University of Oxford), S. Maddox(University of Nottingham), William J. Sutherland(University of St Andrews), P. Norberg(Durham University), Shaun Cole(Durham University), Joss Bland‐Hawthorn(Australian Astronomical Observatory), Terry Bridges(Australian Astronomical Observatory), Russell Cannon(Australian Astronomical Observatory), C. A. Collins(Liverpool John Moores University), W. J. Couch(UNSW Sydney), N. J. G. Cross(University of St Andrews), Kathryn Deeley(UNSW Sydney), Roberto De Propris(UNSW Sydney), Simon P. Driver(University of St Andrews), G. Efstathiou(University of Cambridge), Richard S. Ellis(California Institute of Technology), Carlos S. Frenk(Durham University), Karl Glazebrook(Johns Hopkins University), Carole Jackson(Australian National University), O. Lahav(University of Cambridge), Ian Lewis(Australian Astronomical Observatory), S. L. Lumsden(University of Leeds), Darren S. Madgwick(University of Cambridge), J. A. Peacock(Royal Observatory), B. A. Peterson(Australian National University), Ian Price(Australian National University), Mark Seaborne(University of Oxford), Keith Taylor(California Institute of Technology), (the 2dFGRS team)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
December 1, 2001
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04902.x
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Abstract

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) is designed to measure redshifts for approximately 250 000 galaxies. This paper describes the survey design, the spectroscopic observations, the redshift measurements and the survey data base. The 2dFGRS uses the 2dF multifibre spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, which is capable of observing 400 objects simultaneously over a 28 diameter field. The source catalogue for the survey is a revised and extended version of the APM galaxy catalogue, and the targets are galaxies with extinction-corrected magnitudes brighter than b J 19:45. The main survey regions are two declination strips, one in the southern Galactic hemisphere spanning 808 158 around the SGP, and the other in the northern Galactic hemisphere spanning 758 108 along the celestial equator; in addition, there are 99 fields spread over the southern Galactic cap. The survey covers 2000 deg 2 and has a median depth of z 0:11. Adaptive tiling is used to give a highly uniform sampling rate of 93 per cent over the whole survey region. Redshifts are measured from spectra covering 3600-8000

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