The 6CE Redshift survey

The 6CE Redshift Survey contains every radio source with a low-frequency (151 MHz) flux-density in the range 2.00 <= S151 < 3.93 Jy in a 0.102-sr patch of sky with limits: 08 20 30 < RA (B1950) < 13 01 30, 34 < Dec (B1950) < 40. Extensive optical and near-infrared follow-up have provided identifications for 58 of the 59 sources (the 59th source is behind a very bright star), and spectroscopic redshifts for 56 sources (all bar six of which are secure).

Work on identifying and measuring redshifts for these sources was begun in the 1980s first by Jeremy Allington-Smith, who worked on a similar sample selected to be brighter than 1 Jy at 408 MHz, and second by Steve Eales, who defined the first version of the 6CE sample using the (then new) 6C survey.

Reference material for this sample was published by Rawlings et al. (2001). Since publication, Table 1 from that paper has been updated as a result of more recent data. HTML and ASCII versions of the modified Table 1 are available here.

Changes to Rawlings et al (2001) Table 1

Definite, and slightly revised, redshift for 6C1045+3513 from Willott et al. (2002) (MNRAS, 331, 435).

Confirmed redshift for 6C1217+3645 and slightly more accurate redshifts for 6C0943+3958, 6C1011+3632, 6C1017+3712, 6C1019+3924, 6C1129+3710, 6C1256+3648, 6C1257+3633 from the deeper spectroscopy of Inskip et al. (2002) (MNRAS, to be submitted).

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