The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the photometric accuracy, completeness and contamination of the 2dFGRS and SDSS-EDR/DR1 data sets

Cross, Nicholas J G; Driver, Simon; Liske, Jochen; Lemon, D K; Peacock, John A; Cole, Shaun; Norberg, Peder; Sutherland, William J

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The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the photometric accuracy, completeness and contamination of the 2dFGRS and SDSS-EDR/DR1 data sets

Date

2004

Authors

Cross, Nicholas J G

Driver, Simon

Liske, Jochen

Lemon, D K

Peacock, John A

Cole, Shaun

Norberg, Peder

Sutherland, William J

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (MGC) is a deep (μB,lim = 26 mag arcsec-2), wide-field, charge-coupled device imaging survey, covering 37.5 deg-2. The MGC survey region is completely contained within the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) a