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Description
The Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS) consists of 26,418 redshifts of galaxies selected from a CCD-based catalog obtained in the R band. The survey covers over 700 deg<sup>2</sup> in six strips, each 1.5 x 80 degrees, three each in the north and south Galactic caps. The median redshift in the survey is about 30,000 km s<sup>-1</sup>. Essential features of the galaxy selection and redshift measurement methods are described and tabulated in the reference paper. These details are important for subsequent analysis of the LCRS data. Two-dimensional representations of the redshift distributions reveal many repetitions of voids, on the scale of about 5000 km s<sup>-1</sup>, sharply bounded by large walls of galaxies as seen in nearby surveys. Statistical investigations of the mean galaxy properties and of clustering on the large scale are reported elsewhere. These include studies of the luminosity function, power spectrum in two and three dimensions, correlation function, pairwise velocity distribution, identification of large-scale structures, and a group catalog. This table contains entries for 94959 objects from the LCRS for which photometric data were obtained and which were initially classified as galaxies on the basis of this photometric information, although subsequent spectroscopy indicated that a small fracton of them are actually stars. There are 27021 objects out of this total which have spectroscopic redshift information (either of themselves or of a nearby object). See also the LCRS home pages at: <a href="http://qold.astro.utoronto.ca/~lin/lcrs.html">http://qold.astro.utoronto.ca/~lin/lcrs.html</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2010 based on the electronic version of Table 3 from the above reference which was obtained from the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/203">CDS Catalog VII/203</a> file catalog.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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