The context of the Local Volume: structures and motions in the nearby universe

Abstract

The 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) provide the most complete maps of the large-scale structures and motions in the nearby universe. These maps have been used to reconstruct the density field in the local volume, and to predict the corresponding velocity field and the dipole of the Local Group motion.

4 pages, to appear in "Galaxies in the Local Volume", 2008, eds B. Koribalski and H. Jerjen, Springer Astrophysics and Space Science Series (proceedings of conference held in Sydney on 8-13 July 2007)

References in corpus (6)

• The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey. Paper I: Introduction and Description
• The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Samples, Observational Techniques and the First Data Release
• The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey. Paper II: Image detection, parameterisation, classification and photometry
• Reconstructed Density and Velocity Fields from the 2MASS Redshift Survey
• The Dipole Anisotropy of the 2 Micron All-Sky Redshift Survey
• Second Data Release of the 6dF Galaxy Survey