The Hector Galaxy Survey will observe 15,000 galaxies during its lifetime. Targets have been selected from the Wide Area Vista Extragalactic Survey (WAVES) fields in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as well as 11 rich galaxy clusters.

In the WAVES-South region, the first year of the survey will concentrate on three 5×12 degree fields named G23, H01 and H03. In the WAVES-North region, we will concentrate on the SAMI fields G09, G12 and G15, expanding outwards in 1 degree strips of declination.

The galaxy fields for the first year of survey operations are shown below.

FieldRA (degrees)DEC (degrees)Type
A015117.10920-15.40920Cluster
A315855.77040-53.65310Cluster
A326667.77460-61.44360Cluster
A337690.15290-40.03260Cluster
A339196.58590-53.69330Cluster
A339596.88000-54.43740Cluster
A3667303.09170-56.81520Cluster
A3716312.8600-52.70700Cluster
A2399329.37260-7.796920Cluster
A011914.067150-1.255370Cluster
A008510.460211-9.303184Cluster
G091350WAVES-North
G121800WAVES-North
G152250WAVES-North
G23345-32.5WAVES-South
H0115-30WAVES-South
H0345-30WAVES-South

Hector Input Catalogue 2024

Attached below is the Hector Input catalogue of galaxies which will be observed during the survey. This catalogue is incomplete, and will be expanded when further redshifts are available.