6dF Galaxy Survey
(6dFGS, Six-Degree Field Galaxy Survey)
(UKST survey of galaxies in the southern sky)
The 6dF Galaxy Survey was a 2001-2006
southern-hemisphere spectroscopic survey
of galaxies using the 6dF spectrograph of the UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST),
covering roughly 40% of the sky.
Redshift was determined for about 125,000 galaxies.
(survey,galaxies,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6dF_Galaxy_Survey
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/S/Six-Degree+Field+Galaxy+Survey
http://www.6dfgs.net/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ASPC..289...97W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009MNRAS.399..683J/abstract
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