The 2dF galaxy redshift survey

11/10/99


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Table of Contents

The 2dF galaxy redshift survey

Outline

History of galaxy clustering

Meaning of clustering

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The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey

2dFGRS Survey Team

2dFGRS parameters

2dFGRS geometry

Tiling strategy

Sampling: 2dF vs LCRS

Calibrating photometry

Photometric calibrations

Recalibrated number counts

Deep CCD photometry

The 2dF site

The 2dF facility

2dF on the AAT

Configuring fibres

Data pipeline: real-time X-corr z’s

Example spectra

Survey status - August 1999

Redshift yield

Completeness

Surface brightness selection

Bivariate Brightness Distribution

Survey mask

Selection mask

Stellar contamination

Survey rate

Cone diagram: all declinations

Cone diagram: 4-degree wedge

The big picture

Redshift distribution

Overall luminosity function

Spectral classification by PCA

LFs by spectral type

Galaxy distribution by type

2D correlations x(s, p)

Model comparison - I

Model comparison - II

Projected correlations X(r)

The CDM clustering problem

The CDM Mach-number problem

Numerical galaxy formation

Antibias in LCDM

Dark-matter haloes and bias

Correlations from smooth haloes

Halo occupations depend on mass

Summary

Author: John Peacock & Matthew Colless