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

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 576-594

  Cross, N J G ^a   Driver, S P ^b   Liske, J ^c   Lemon, D J ^d   Peacock, J A ^e   Cole, S ^f   Norberg, P ^g   Sutherland, W J ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: general

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COSMOLOGY; LUMINANCE; PHOTOMETRY; STARS; SURVEYS;

COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; DATA RELEASE; DATA SET; GALAXIES GENERAL; PHOTOMETRICS; SCALE ERRORS; SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY; STELLARS; SURFACE BRIGHTNESS; UNCERTAINTY;

GALAXIES;

EID: 1842733421     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07527.x     Document Type: Review

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