The tiling algorithm for the 6dF galaxy survey

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 350, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1467-1476

  Campbell, Lachlan ^a   Saunders, Will ^b,c   Colless, Matthew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Large scale structure of Universe; Methods: observational

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SURVEYS;

ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORIES; FIBER POSITIONER; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; LARGE-SCALES; METHODS:OBSERVATIONAL; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PECULIAR VELOCITIES; RED SHIFT; SCHMIDT TELESCOPE; SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 2942622400     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07745.x     Document Type: Review

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