The Southern Sky Redshift Survey

Abstract

The authors have finished a redshift survey of galaxies selected from the ESO catalog and present maps of the resulting space distribution. The sample consists of 2028 galaxies in an area of 1.75 sr with declination south of -17°.5 and galactic latitude below -30°. The sample diameter is limited with all galaxies having log [D(0)] greater than 0.1 where D(0) is a "face-on" diameter in arcminutes. The redshift sample is not complete at the smallest diameter, particularly for the later type galaxies, for which the surface brightness is very low; redshifts are available for 1657 of the galaxies. This survey provides useful information on large-scale structure to a depth of 120 h-1Mpc (H0 = 100h km s-1Mpc-1).