The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey - Overview

30-Aug-99


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Table of Contents

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey - Overview
Survey Team
Outline
Benchmark surveys
2dFGRS parameters
2dFGRS geometry
Sampling: 2dF vs LCRS
Calibrating photometry
Photometric calibrations
Relcalibrated number counts
Deep CCD photometry
The 2dF facility
2dF on the AAT
Configuring fibres
Data reduction software
Example spectra
Survey status - August 1999
Redshift yield
Completeness
Survey mask
Stellar contamination
Selection mask
Survey rate
2dF redshift cone plot
The big picture!
Redshift distribution
Overall luminosity function
Spectral classification by PCA
Spectral classes
LFs by spectral type
Combined LF
Early-type galaxy distribution
Late-type galaxy distribution
Distribution of star-formation
What is the local LF?
Surface brightness selection
Bivariate Brightness Distribution
Summary
Effective sizes of z-surveys
The 6dF fibre spectrograph
The 6dF Galaxy Survey
2MASS and DENIS
6dF z-survey
6dF v-survey

Author: Matthew Colless

Email: colless@mso.anu.edu.au

Home Page: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~colless/2dF