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Progress in Galaxy Redshift Surveys using FLAIR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

F. G. Watson ,
A. Broadbent ,
D. Hale-Sutton ,
T. Shanks ,
Q. A. Parker  and
A. P. Oates
F. G. Watson
Affiliation:
Anglo-Australian Observatory, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357
A. Broadbent
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
D. Hale-Sutton
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
T. Shanks
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Q. A. Parker
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
A. P. Oates
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OEZ, UK
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Abstract

Among the most important stimuli for developing the FLAIR multi-object spectroscopy system on the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope was its potential for carrying out large-scale redshift surveys of galaxies of intermediate magnitude (B <~ 17). During FLAIR’s lengthy development period, these objects provided the yardstick by which the system’s performance was measured, and a number of limited-area redshift surveys were carried out. We are now following these with a 1-in-3 survey over the 60 fields of the ROE/Durham Galaxy Catalogue to produce a redshift map of some 4000 galaxies out to a distance of ~ 300h−1 Mpc (where the parameter h is the Hubble constant expressed as a fraction of 100 kms−1 Mpc−1). In this paper we summarise the results from our redshift surveys to highlight the capabilities of FLAIR. We present a status report on the current large-scale survey, and show that the recently-introduced FLAIR II system will speed its progress considerably.

Type
Extragalactic
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , 1992 , pp. 12 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1992

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