The PSCz catalogue |
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| Authors: | W Saunders W J Sutherland S J Maddox O Keeble S J Oliver M Rowan-Robinson R G McMahon G P Efstathiou H Tadros S D M White C S Frenk A Carramiñana M R S Hawkins |
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| Institution: | Institute for Astronomy, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ;Nuclear and Astrophysics Laboratory, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH;Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA;Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ;MPI-Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1, D-85740 Garching bei Munchen, Germany;Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE;Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Ópticta y Electrónica, Apartado Postal 51 y 216, 72000 Puebla, Mexico |
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| Abstract: | We present the catalogue, mask, redshift data and selection function for the PSC z survey of 15 411 IRAS galaxies across 84 per cent of the sky. Most of the IRAS data are taken from the Point Source Catalog, but this has been supplemented and corrected in various ways to improve the completeness and uniformity. We quantify the known imperfections in the catalogue, and we assess the overall uniformity, completeness and data quality. We find that overall the catalogue is complete and uniform to within a few per cent at high latitudes and 10 per cent at low latitudes. Ancillary information, access details, guidelines and caveats for using the catalogue are given. |
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| Keywords: | catalogues surveys galaxies: clusters: general galaxies: distances and redshifts large-scale structure of Universe |
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