Astronomers make the first ever 3D atlas of a million galaxies

[folkhemmet]

"Astronomers make the first ever 3D atlas of a million galaxies"


http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE320060511052430&Page=3&Title=Features+-+Health+%26+Science&Topic=166&

Apparently, a team of astronomers released a 3-D map of a million galaxies last week extending out to 5 billion light years. However, there is nothing about this on the preprint archive astro-ph/ or in the science press. There are a few news stories including the url I just posted, but none of them mention anything about what "team" these astronomers are from. My guess is that this is an SDSS galaxy map. Has anybody else heard anything about this?

[Nereid]

Here (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412516)'s a Dec 2004 (revised May 2005) paper by the two (Collister and Lahav), on a similar topic; they used 2dF data.

Neither author has a more recent paper in ArXiV, on a topic that is close to that of the title of this thread.

[iron4]

Impressive. The legendary SDSS 3D Universe Map
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031028.html) (2003) only shows the position of over 200000 galaxies


One of the problems of these 3d atlases is that they are not easily consulted, as is the case with the comfy 2d atlases of Earth geography :(