J/AJ/88/1285 J/AJ/88/1285 A deep survey of galaxies R P Kirshner A Oemler P L Schechter S A Shectman Astron. J. 88 1285 1983 1983AJ.....88.1285K J/AJ/83/1549 : A study of field galaxies. I. (Kirshner+ 1978) J/AJ/95/1629 : [O III] emission in 2 field-galaxy surveys (Moody+ 1988) Galaxies, photometry Redshifts We present a sample of galaxies in six fields, each of area 2 sq deg, located in the North and South galactic polar caps. Photoelectrically calibrated photographic magnitudes and J-F colors have been determined for 512 galaxies brighter than completeness limits which range from F=16.5 to F=17.2 among the fields. Velocities, with typical accuracies of 150km/s have been obtained for 280 of the brighter galaxies. Using these data and previously published work, we determine the general galaxy luminosity function parameters to be M*_F_=-22.7, {alpha}=-1.25, and the mean visual luminosity density of the universe to be {rho}=2.3x10^8^hL_{sun}_/Mpc^3^. Assuming M/L_v_=300h, this implies {OMEGA}~0.26.

Field Field designation --- RAh Right ascension (1950.0) h RAm Right ascension (1950.0) min RAs Right ascension (1950.0) s DE- Declination sign --- DEd Declination (1950.0) deg DEm Declination (1950.0) arcmin DEs Declination (1950.0) arcsec Fmag F magnitude mag J-F J-F colour index mag cz Velocity km/s Com Comments number=1 KOS sample, Kirshner et al., 1978 Cat. <J/AJ/83/1549> and Kirshner et al., 1979AJ.....84..951K --- Marie-Jose Wagner, Patricia Bauer CDS 1997Apr14 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Prepared via OCR at CDS. J_AJ_88_1285.xml