Tuesday, 24th May at 3.30pm @ the JAC

ABSTRACT: The 2dF galaxy redshift survey has taken spectra and obtained redshifts for 220,000 galaxies in the local (z<0.3) Universe, allowing the statistics of galaxy clustering to be studied in detail. I will briefly review the 2dFGRS, before focussing on the observed galaxy clustering. The concordance cosmological model (Universe = 5% baryons, 25% dark matter and 70% dark energy) was developed by combining results from galaxy clustering with data from CMB experiments. I will discuss how our latest analyses of the 2dFGRS affect this model.