`ISRN Astronomy and AstrophysicsVolume 2011 (2011), Article ID 958973, 11 pagesdoi:10.5402/2011/958973`
Research Article

Locations of Satellite Galaxies in the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey

Department of Astronomy, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

Received 24 June 2011; Accepted 8 August 2011

Academic Editors: J. A. L. Aguerri, E. Benitez, A. J. R. Sanderson, and W. W. Zeilinger

Copyright © 2011 Ingólfur Ágústsson and Tereasa G. Brainerd. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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