SIXDFGS ivo://nasa.heasarc/sixdfgs NASA/GSFC HEASARC Jones et al. 2026-04-24 NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk heasarc-vo at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov Galaxy The final redshift release of the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) is a combined redshift and peculiar velocity survey over the southern sky (|b| > 10 degrees). Its 136,304 spectra have yielded 110,256 new extragalactic redshifts and a new catalogue of 125,071 galaxies making near-complete samples with limits in (K, H, J, r<sub>F</sub>, b<sub>J</sub>) (12.65, 12.95, 13.75, 15.60, 16.75). The median redshift of the survey is 0.053. The catalog includes basic data for the galaxies in the 6dFGS with redshifts, using the best 6dFGS redshifts (radial velocity quality flag Q =3 or 4) plus available redshifts from SDSS, 2dFGRS and ZCAT (124,647 entries in all). It supersedes the previous DR2 version (<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/249">CDS Cat. VII/249</a>). The home page of of the 6dFGS database is <a href="http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dFGS">http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/6dFGS</a>. Any use of these data should explicitly state that they come from the Final Release of 6dFGS and cite both the 6dGS DR3 paper (Jones et al. 2009, MNRAS, 399, 683) as well as the original 6dFGS survey paper (Jones et al. 2004, MNRAS, 355, 747). This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2011 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/259">CDS Catalog VII/259</a> file 6dfgs.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC . 2009MNRAS.399..683J https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/sixdfgs.html Catalog Research served-by HEASARC TAP https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=sixdfgs& GET text/xml 180 99999 true 25.40554167 -89.33452778 0.0333333333333333 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/getvotable.pl?name=sixdfgs GET text/xml https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_sixdfgs&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1 GALAXY CATALOG 0.0333333333333333 Optical public sixdfgs 6dFGS Galaxy Survey Final Redshift Release Catalog name Galaxy Survey Target Identification (6dFGS gJHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS) meta.id;meta.main char nullable ra Right Ascension degree pos.eq.ra;meta.main double nullable dec Declination degree pos.eq.dec;meta.main double nullable bj_mag Recalibrated b_J Magnitude mag phot.mag;em.opt.B double nullable supercosmos_class SuperCOSMOS Star/Galaxy Classifier: 1=Galaxy, 2=Star, 3=Unclassifiable, 4=Noise meta.code;src.class short nullable radial_velocity Best Available Combined Recession Velocity cz km/s spect.dopplerVeloc int nullable radial_velocity_error Combined Uncertainty in Radial Velocity km/s stat.error;spect.dopplerVeloc short nullable ref_radial_velocity Code Identifying Source of Redshift meta.ref;spect.dopplerVeloc short nullable name_redshift_field Name of Redshift Field File Containing the Redshift meta.id;obs.field char nullable bii Galactic Latitude degree pos.galactic.lat double nullable target_id Unique Target Identification Number in 6dFGS Database meta.id;src int nullable original_weight Original Weight Source Had for First Round of Fibre Allocation meta.code;obs short nullable num_total_measures Number of 6dFGS Measurements (of Any Quality) meta.number;obs short nullable specid_values SPECID Values of Redshifts Contributing to the Final Combined Redshift meta.id;obs char nullable radial_velocity_compflag Comparison Flags Between Redshift Measurements meta.code;spect.dopplerVeloc short nullable program_id Program Identification Number short nullable rf_mag Recalibrated r_F Magnitude (RMAG) mag phot.mag;em.opt.R double nullable lii Galactic Longitude degree pos.galactic.lon double nullable num_highq_measure Number of Measurements Used in Final Radial Velocity (of Quality 3 or 4 Only) meta.number;obs short nullable radial_velocity_qualflag Best Redshift Quality Value Available meta.code.qual;spect.dopplerVeloc short nullable template_code Template Code(s) meta.code char nullable av Galactic Extinction in V Magnitudes (from Schlegel et al., 1998ApJ...500..525S) mag phys.absorption;em.opt.V double nullable "__x_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__y_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__z_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__row" System index column char nullable