Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-12-11
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) 576
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
23 pages, 18 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07527.x
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (MGC) is a deep ($\mu_{\rm B,lim}=26$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$), wide field CCD imaging survey, covering 37.5deg$^2$ and is completely contained within the 2dFGRS and SDSS-EDR. We compare the photometry and completeness of the 2dFGRS and the SDSS-EDR with the MGC. We have also undertaken a photometric comparison to SCOS and SDSS-DR1 data. We find that $B_{MGC}-B_{2dF}=0.035$ mag with an uncertainty of 0.142 mag per galaxy, $B_{MGC}-B_{SCOS}=0.032$ mag with an uncertainty of 0.108 mag, $B_{MGC}-B_{SDSS-EDR}=0.032$ mag with an uncertainty of 0.094 mag, and $B_{MGC}-B_{SDSS-DR1}=0.039$ mag with an uncertainty of 0.086 mag. We find that high surface brightness 2dFGRS galaxies are systematically too faint. In the SDSS there is a weak non-linear scale error, which is negligible for faint galaxies. LSBGs in the SDSS are systematically fainter. We find that the 2dFGRS catalogue has 5.2% stellar contamination, 7.0% of objects are resolved into 2 or more by the MGC and is 8.7% incomplete compared to the MGC. From our all object spectroscopic survey we find that the MGC is itself misclassifying 5.6% of galaxies as stars, hence the 2dFGRS misses 14.3% of the galaxies. The SDSS-EDR galaxy catalogue has 1.3% stellar contamination and 5.3% of galaxies misclassified as stars, and is 1.8% incomplete compared to the MGC. Altogether 7.1% of the total galaxy population are missing from the SDSS-EDR catalogue from incompleteness or misclassification.
Cole Shaun
Cross Nicholas J. G.
Driver Simon. P.
Lemon D. J.
Liske Jochen
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