TY - JOUR
T1 - FLASH redshift survey - I. Observations and catalogue
AU - Kaldare, Raven
AU - Colless, Matthew
AU - Raychaudhury, Somak
AU - Peterson, B. A.
PY - 2003/3/1
Y1 - 2003/3/1
N2 - The FLAIR Shapley-Hydra (FLASH) redshift survey catalogue consists of 4613 galaxies brighter than bJ = 16.7 (corrected for Galactic extinction) over a 700-deg2 region of sky in the general direction of the Local Group motion. The survey region is a 70° × 10° strip spanning the sky from the Shapley Supercluster to the Hydra cluster, and contains 3141 galaxies with measured redshifts. Designed to explore the effect of the galaxy concentrations in this direction (in particular the Supergalactic plane and the Shapley Supercluster) upon the Local Group motion, the 68 per cent completeness allows us to sample the large-scale structure better than similar sparsely-sampled surveys. The survey region does not overlap with the areas covered by ongoing wide-angle (Sloan or 2dF) complete redshift surveys. In this paper, the first in a series, we describe the observation and data reduction procedures, the analysis for the redshift errors and survey completeness, and present the survey data.
AB - The FLAIR Shapley-Hydra (FLASH) redshift survey catalogue consists of 4613 galaxies brighter than bJ = 16.7 (corrected for Galactic extinction) over a 700-deg2 region of sky in the general direction of the Local Group motion. The survey region is a 70° × 10° strip spanning the sky from the Shapley Supercluster to the Hydra cluster, and contains 3141 galaxies with measured redshifts. Designed to explore the effect of the galaxy concentrations in this direction (in particular the Supergalactic plane and the Shapley Supercluster) upon the Local Group motion, the 68 per cent completeness allows us to sample the large-scale structure better than similar sparsely-sampled surveys. The survey region does not overlap with the areas covered by ongoing wide-angle (Sloan or 2dF) complete redshift surveys. In this paper, the first in a series, we describe the observation and data reduction procedures, the analysis for the redshift errors and survey completeness, and present the survey data.
KW - Catalogues
KW - Cosmology: observations
KW - Galaxies: distances and redshifts
KW - Galaxies: general
KW - Large-scale structure of universe
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U2 - 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.05695.x
DO - 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.05695.x
M3 - Review article
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 339
SP - 652
EP - 662
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 3
ER -