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Las Campanas Redshift Survey — first large-scale fiber-optic survey

1996 AD · Transmission: Global
AstronomyPhysicsDiscoveryNorth American

Shectman, Landy, Oemler, Tucker, Lin, Kirshner, and Schechter publish the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS), with 26,418 galaxies measured using the first large-scale application of fiber-optic spectroscopy. The LCRS was the first galaxy survey deep enough to convincingly show that galaxy distribution becomes homogeneous at sufficiently large scales, confirming and massively extending the kind of structures (voids, walls) previously detected in the Boötes Void.

InstitutionCarnegie Observatories — Las Campanas Observatory, Chile
Historical regionChile / USA
Primary sourceShectman, S.A., Landy, S.D., Oemler, A., Tucker, D.L., Lin, H., Kirshner, R.P., Schechter, P.L. (1996), "The Las Campanas Redshift Survey", ApJ 470, 172.
Secondary sourceCarnegie Science: biography of Stephen Shectman; Wikipedia: Las Campanas Redshift Survey
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