6dF Spectra: Resource Record Summary

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Catalog Service:
6dF DR3 Simple Spectra Access

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Short name: 6dF Spectra IVOA Identifier: ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dF-ssapPublisher: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburghivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk[Pub. ID] More Info: http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dfgs/ VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2011 Mar 22 16:32:45Z
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Description

The 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) aims to measure the redshifts of around 150 000 galaxies, and the peculiar velocities of a 15 000-member subsample, over almost the entire southern sky. The table called Spectra contains the redshifts and qualities of all the observations. When complete, it will be the largest redshift survey of the nearby Universe, reaching out to about z ~ 0.15, and more than an order of magnitude larger than any peculiar velocity survey to date. The targets are all galaxies brighter than K tot = 12.75 in the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog (XSC), supplemented by 2MASS and SuperCOSMOS galaxies that complete the sample to limits of (H, J , r F, bJ) = (13.05, 13.75, 15.6, 16.75). This is the Data Release 3 version.

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburghivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk[Pub. ID]

Creator: Anglo-Australian Observatory and WFAU

Contact Information:

X Mark Holliman
Email: msh at roe.ac.uk

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

Relevant dates for this Resource:

Representative: 2011 Mar 22

This resource was registered on: 2011 Mar 22 16:32:45Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2013 Sep 18 16:43:53Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService: This resource is a service that provides access to data (specifically, spectra). With this type of service, you can search for data by issuing a query, and information about available data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Survey	Subject keywords: 6dF Data Release 3 Spectra
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dfgs/

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Wavebands covered: Optical

Available Service Interfaces

	Simple Spectral AccessXX
	This is a standard IVOA service for searches for spectra from this resource that were observed within a specified region of the sky. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Available endpoints for the standard interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/6dF-ssap/?

Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute

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