Clustering studies with the 2dF galaxy redshift survey

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The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey has now been completed and has mapped the three-dimensional distribution, and hence clustering, of galaxies in exquisite detail over an unprecedentedly large ($\sim 10^{8} h^{-3}$ Mpc$^{3}$) volume of the local Universe. Here we highlight some of the major results to come from studies of clustering within the survey: galaxy correlation function and power spectrum analyses and the constraints they have placed on cosmological parameters; the luminosity functions of rich galaxy clusters, their dependence on global cluster properties and galaxy type, and how they compare with the field; and the variation of galactic star formation activity with environment, both within clusters and in galaxy groups.
16 pages, refereed conference proceedings,to appear in Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, vol.3: Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy Evolution, edited by J. S. Mulcahey, A. Dressler, A. Oemler (CUP). Also available at: http://www.ociw.edu/ociw/symposia/series/symposium3/proceedings.html Needs cupbook.cls, caps.cls,ociwsymp3.sty (included) Figures 1,9,10,11 are low resolution bitmaps because of arxiv size limits

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