Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
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Result of query: info cati 2PIGG$

Details on Acronym:   2PIGG
  
2PIGG (2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group)
Write:<<2PIGG wNNNNN>>
N: 11920+16957
Object:Group of G  (SIMBAD class: GroupG = Group of Galaxies)
Note:N=11920+16957 groups of galaxies in the contiguous Northern and Southern Galactic Patches (NGP and SGP) of the Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS).
Ref:=2004MNRAS.348..866E
byEKE V.R. , BAUGH C.M., COLE S., FRENK C.S., NORBERG P., PEACOCK J.A., BALDRY I.K., BLAND-HAWTHORN J., BRIDGES T., CANNON R., COLLESS M., COLLINS C., COUCH W., DALTON G., DE PROPRIS R., DRIVER S.P., EFSTATHIOU G., ELLIS R.S., GLAZEBROOK K., JACKSON C., LAHAV O., LEWIS I., LUMSDEN S., MADDOX S., MADGWICK D., PETERSON B.A., SUTHERLAND W., TAYLOR K.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 348, 866-878 (2004)
  Galaxy groups in the 2dFGRS: the group-finding algorithm and the 2PIGG catalogue.
o<2PIGG wNNNNN> (Nos n1-n11920, s1-s16957).
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as J/MNRAS/348/866
Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)