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Optical Redshift Surveys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

L. Nicolaci da Costa
L. Nicolaci da Costa*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and CNPq/Observatório Nacional60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

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Redshift surveys of galaxies have been over the past decade the major source of information for studies of the large-scale structure of the Universe. Following the completion of the original CfA Redshift Survey, several groups have joined the endeavor, probing different regions of the sky to different depths in a remarkable long-term effort to study the nature of the galaxy distribution and its statistical properties at different scales. Here I summarize the current status of the ongoing surveys drawn from optical galaxy catalogs. The review is not intended to be complete but rather to demonstrate the vitality of the area and to point out that exciting new data should be forthcoming in the next few years.

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Joint Commission Meetings
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Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 9: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIst General Assembly of the IAU, 1991 , 1992 , pp. 681 - 683
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992

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