Open AccessThe Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey — V. The catalogue
Author(s) -
Ratcliffe A.,
Shanks T.,
Parker Q. A.,
Broadbent A.,
Watson F. G.,
Oates A. P.,
Collins C. A.,
Fong R.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01907.x
Subject(s) - physics , astrophysics , galaxy , redshift , astronomy , redshift survey , limiting magnitude , sky , spectrograph , magnitude (astronomy) , spectral line
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.