6dF Galaxy Survey Database - Second Data Release

The current version is the Second Data Release (6dFGS DR2) issued May 2005. The database currently holds 89211 spectra.

Over the past four years, the 6dF Galaxy Survey has accrued the redshifts for thousands of galaxies over the southern sky. Its goal is to map our southern view of the nearby universe through approximately 150,000 galaxies, with peculiar velocities (as well as redshifts) for 10% of the sample. When the 6dFGS finishes in late 2005 it will have covered more than 8 times the area of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, and more than twice that of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

At last count 115,000 spectra had been observed over 80% of the sky, yielding 71,000 extragalactic redshifts from the 85,000 spectra processed to date. Much of this data has already been made public through the 6dFGS Online Database, maintained by the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh.

Links:
http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/6df/