2 papers
astro-ph.CO2009
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Final Redshift Release (DR3) and Southern Large-Scale Structures
D. Heath Jones, Mike A. Read, Will Saunders +30
We report the final redshift release of the 6dF Galaxy Survey, a combined redshift and peculiar velocity survey over the southern sky (|b|>10 deg). Its 136,304 spectra have yielded…
astro-ph2008
The stellar content of the Hamburg/ESO survey. V. The metallicity distribution function of the Galactic halo
T. Schoerck, N. Christlieb, J. G. Cohen +22
We determine the metallicity distribution function (MDF) of the Galactic halo by means of a sample of 1638 metal-poor stars selected from the Hamburg/ESO objective-prism survey (HE…