The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
- M. Skrutskie, R. Cutri, S. Wheelock
- Physics
- 1 February 2006
Between 1997 June and 2001 February the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) collected 25.4 Tbytes of raw imaging data covering 99.998% of the celestial sphere in the near-infrared J (1.25 μm), H (1.65…
THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE
- E. Wright, P. Eisenhardt, Chao-Wei Tsai
- Physics
- 30 July 2010
The all sky surveys done by the Palomar Observatory Schmidt, the European Southern Observatory Schmidt, and the United Kingdom Schmidt, the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite, and the Two Micron All Sky…
Atlas of quasar energy distributions
We present an atlas of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of normal, nonblazar, quasars over the whole available range (radio to 10 keV X-rays) of the electromagnetic spectrum. The primary…
2MASS All Sky Catalog of point sources.
- R. Cutri, M. Skrutskie, N. Zacarias
- Physics
- 1 June 2003
The 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas
- T. Jarrett, T. Chester, R. Cutri, Simona Schneider, J. Huchra
- Physics
- 3 June 2001
We present the largest galaxies as seen in the near-infrared (1–2 μm), imaged with the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), ranging in angular size from 1′ to 1.°5. We highlight the 100 largest in the…
2MASS Extended Source Catalog: Overview and Algorithms
- T. Jarrett, T. Chester, R. Cutri, S. Schneider, M. Skrutskie, J. Huchra
- Physics
- 21 April 2000
The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) will observe over 1,000,000 galaxies and extended Galactic sources covering the entire sky at wavelengths between 1 and 2 μm. Most of these galaxies will be…
MID-INFRARED SELECTION OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI WITH THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER. I. CHARACTERIZING WISE-SELECTED ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI IN COSMOS
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is an extremely capable and efficient black hole finder. We present a simple mid-infrared color criterion, W1 − W2 ⩾ 0.8 (i.e., [3.4]−[4.6] ⩾0.8, Vega),…
The K-Band Galaxy Luminosity Function
- C. Kochanek, M. Pahre, S. Schneider
- Physics
- 24 November 2000
We measured the K-band luminosity function using a complete sample of 4192 morphologically typed 2MASS galaxies with μ = 20 mag arcsec-2 isophotal magnitudes 7 < K20 < 11.25 mag spread over 2.12 sr.…
Dwarfs Cooler than “M”: The Definition of Spectral Type “L” Using Discoveries from the 2-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS)
- J. Kirkpatrick, I. Reid, M. Skrutskie
- Physics, Geology
- 10 July 1999
Before the 2-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) began, only six objects were known with spectral types later than M9.5 V. In the first 371 deg2 of actual 2MASS survey data, we have identified another 20…
THE SPITZER–WISE SURVEY OF THE ECLIPTIC POLES
- T. Jarrett, M. Cohen, D. Yan
- Physics
- 10 July 2011
We have carried out a survey of the north and south ecliptic poles, EP-N and EP-S, respectively, with the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The primary…
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