IAU02530
Presentation type requested: ORAL
THE 6DF GALAXY SURVEY: MASS & MOTIONS IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE
Matthew Colless
The Australian National University
The 6dF Galaxy Survey is using the AAO's Schmidt telescope and the 6dF fibre spectrograph to measure redshifts for 150,000 galaxies over the whole southern sky outside the plane of the Galaxy. The primary targets are galaxies with K<12.75 from the near-infrared 2MASS survey, supplemented by optically-selected galaxies and various additional samples of special-interest objects. The survey will also measure distances and peculiar velocities for 15,000 early-type galaxies, and so provide a map of both the density and velocity fields in the nearby universe out to z~0.1. An initial data release containing 13,000 redshifts from the survey was made public in December 2002; the first third of the survey will be made public at the end of 2003; survey observations will be completed in mid-2005. This talk will summarize the status and future prospects of the survey, and present results based on the first 50,000 redshifts.
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