The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: Science highlights

dc.creatorDriver, Simon P.
dc.creatorLiske, Jochen
dc.creatorGraham, Alister W.
dc.date2007-01-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:41:10Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:41:10Z
dc.descriptionThe Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (MGC) provides a structural database comprising 10,095 well resolved galaxies drawn from a 37.5 sq. deg region of sky, with $B_{\tiny \sc mgc} < 20.0$ mag and 96.1 per cent spectroscopic completeness. The data are being used to investigate a number of diverse topics including: the nearby galaxy merger rate (via close pairs and asymmetry); dust attenuation; bulge and disc luminosity functions; the luminosity size relations; the supermassive black hole mass function; galaxy bimodality; the space-density of high and low surface brightness galaxies; blue spheroids; and the total $B$-band luminosity function. Plans to extend the MGC in area (200 sq. deg), depth ($K_{Vega}=16.5$ mag), resolution (0.5$''$) and wavelength $(u-K)$ are underway.
dc.description6 page ASP Conf. Proc. "From Stars to Galaxies", Eds (Vallenari, Tantalo, Portinari, Moretti)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701468
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701468
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/122009
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: Science highlights
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