Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993stin...9325331y&link_type=abstract
Final Report State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook. Astronomy Program.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Density (Number/Volume), Galaxies, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Cosmology, Infrared Astronomy, Red Shift
Scientific paper
One of the most important discoveries of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) has been the detection of about 20,000 galaxies with 60 microns fluxes above 0.5 Jy. From the observational point of view, the IRAS galaxies are ideal tracers of density, since they are homogeneously detected over most of the sky, and their fluxes are unaffected by galactic extinction. The nearby universe was mapped by the IRAS galaxies to a distance of approximately 200 h-1 Mpc for the absolute value of b less than 5 deg. The ability to map down to such low galactic latitudes has proven to be particularly imporant, since some of the most important nearby large-scale structures, such as the Great Attractor, the Perseus-Pisces region, and the Shapley concentration, all lie there. Two major results of the U.S. IRAS redshift survey are discussed.
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