ASTR 5770 Spring 2006 Homepage
Galaxy Clustering
Click on any image to find the original source.
IRAS PSCz Survey
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite
Point Source Catalog Redshift Survey
(Saunders et al. 2000)
contains 15,000 galaxies over 84% of the sky.
The AAT 2dFGRS
The Anglo-Australian Telescope 2-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey
(
Colless et al. 2003)
contains 230,000 galaxies in 899 2-degree diameter fields
selected from the Automatic Plate Measuring survey (Maddox et al. 1990).
SDSS
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
aims to obtain positions and 5-color photometry of a large number of objects.
Public data release 4 (2005)
contains 1.8 × 108 objects,
and 850,000 spectra.
Power spectra
This compilation by
Tegmark et al. (2004)
shows the remarkable consistency between power spectra from
disparate sources.
Spring 2006 ASTR 5770 Homepage
Updated 18 Jan 2006
