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6dFGS

The 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) has mapped the nearby universe over nearly half the sky. Its 136,304 spectra have yielded 110,256 new extragalactic redshifts and a new catalogue of 125,071 galaxies.
July 17, 2020 by J. Tocknell
Aug. 6, 2020, 5:20 p.m. J. Tocknell

6dFGS Catalogues

Data Central includes the latest version of all the 6dFGS catalogues. You can browse the schema of these catalogues via the schema browser. Note that the groupings are a Data Central addition, which will hopefully make it easier to find the relevant tables.

Data Central has also created an additional catalogue, dc_source_list, which contains all the sources. The information in this table was derived from the TARGET and SPECTRA catalogues. Its purpose is to act as a complete source catalogue for 6dFGS for the purposes of the Data Central Single Object Viewer—the limited information (only RA/Dec) does not make it suitable for any other purpose.

July 17, 2020 by J. Tocknell
Aug. 6, 2020, 5:20 p.m. J. Tocknell