First, you need to obtain the 2dFGRS data release for galaxies. http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/2dFGRS/ ======================================================== Step 1. Find the groups in 2dFGRS. I. Selections: 1. 0.01 <= z <= 0.20 2. completeness > 0.8 (redshift completeness) (Note there is a 0.91 completeness in the parent catalogue) 3. m < mmax (b_J-band) 4. redshift quality q >= 3 We adopt these selections in order to have a fair sample to search the groups. After these selections, we get 151280 galaxies which covers an area of 1124 square degrees The galaxies thus selected are listed in `i2dFGRS' with format: 1. galaxy id; 2. galaxy id in 2dFGRS II. group catalogue: (We are using luminosity normalized to z=0.1) 1. group members are stored in `2dFGRS_member' with format: 1. group id; 2. galaxy id; 3. galaxy id in 2dFGRS (Note that not all the galaxies are linked the groups, only 104912 galaxies are linked to groups.) 2. group properties are stored in '2dFGRS_group' with format: 1. group id; 2. halo mass in log M_{\odot}/h; (estimated using the ranking of groups) 3. group L_{-18} log L_{\odot}/h^2; (characteristic group luminosity) 4. z; (they are luminosity weighted group redshift) 5. brightest galaxy id; 6. brightest galaxy id in 2dFGRS; Note that the halo mass are estimated using the ranking of the groups according to their L_{-18}. [Refer to Yang et al. (2005c, MNRAS, 358, 217) for the details of the halo mass assignment.] At high redshift, the small halos are not all resolved in our group catalogue, thus suffer from the incompleteness. [Refer to Yang et al. (2005b, MNRAS, 357, 608) for the incompleteness.] The first 3 lines in `2dFGRS_group' contain such information: 0 -12.8779 10.5000 0.2000 0 0 0 -12.1381 10.0000 0.1400 0 0 0 -11.7860 9.6000 0.0800 0 0 Halos with log mass > 12.8779 are complete with redshift z<0.2. Halos with log mass [12.1381 12.8779] are complete with redshift z<0.12. Halos with log mass [11.7860 12.1381] are complete with redshift z<0.08. Those halos not complete are assigned negitive values. No halos are assigned mass smaller than 11.7860. ==============================================================