2003/11/08 by P. A. Woudt, Patrick A. Woudt, R. C. Kraan-Korteweg +7
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Context (archaeology) #Galactic astronomy #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Milky Way #Redshift #Space Technology and Applications #Telescope #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20034600
published as Astron.Astrophys. 415 (2004) 9-18 · 11 pages, 7 figures; accepted for publication in A&A. Tables 1 and 2 will be available in electronic format at the CDS. Figure 1 at full resolution, and both tables are available at http://mensa.ast.uct.ac.za/~pwoudt/data/H4462/)
arxiv created 2003/11/08 · openalex publication_date 2004/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
As part of our efforts to unveil extragalactic large-scale structures behind the southern Milky Way, we here present redshifts for 764 galaxies in the Hydra/Antlia, Crux and Great Attractor region (, ), obtained with the Meudon-ESO Fibre Object Spectrograph (MEFOS) at the 3.6-m telescope of ESO. The observations are part of a redshift survey of partially obscured galaxies recorded in the course of a deep optical galaxy search behind the southern Milky Way (Kraan-Korteweg [CITE]; Woudt & Kraan-Korteweg [CITE]). A total of 947 galaxies have been observed, a small percentage of the spectra (, 11.5%) were contaminated by foreground stars, and 74 galaxies (7.8%) were too faint to allow a reliable redshift determination. With MEFOS we obtained spectra down to the faintest galaxies of our optical galaxy survey, and hence probe large-scale structures out to larger distances ( km s-1) than our other redshift follow-ups using the 1.9-m telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory (Kraan-Korteweg et al. [CITE]; Fairall et al. [CITE]; Woudt et al. [CITE]) and the 64-m Parkes radio telescope (Kraan-Korteweg et al. [CITE]). The most distinct large-scale structures revealed in the southern Zone of Avoidance are discussed in context to known structures adjacent to the Milky Way.