Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-02-17
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 345 (2003) 1049
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.07027.x
Using the bright galaxy counts from the 2 Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) second incremental release, two techniques for probing large-scale structure at distances of ~150 h-1 Mpc are investigated. First, we study the counts from two sets of six 5 degree by ~80 degree strips in the two galactic caps. In the six southern strips a deficit of ~30% was found relative to a predicted homogeneous distribution at K~11. These strips were also in good agreement with a model incorporating the radial density function of the southern 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS), which shows a deep underdensity between ~90 and 180 h-1 mpc. These results indicate a very large `local hole' in the Southern Galactic Cap (SGC) to >150 h-1 Mpc with a linear size across the sky of ~200 h-1 Mpc, but with a significantly lower mean underdensity of ~30% than that suggested by the bright APM SGC counts. The counts in the northern set of strips are low overall but indicate a more varied pattern. When all the available 2MASS data with |b|>30 were aggregated, they indicated underdensities of ~18% and ~30% at K~11 for the northern and southern areas respectively. Our second method uses the ratio of the counts with 11.38
Busswell Geoff S.
Fong Richard
Frith William J.
Metcalfe Nigel
Shanks Tom
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