The 2 Micron All Sky Survey
Abstract
The 2 micron All Sky Survey, or 2MASS, will cover the sky at three near-infrared wavelengths with a pixellation of approx. 2.0 microns. One of the primary scientific goals of the survey is to produce a catalogue of galaxies limited between K=13 and K=14 (equivalent to B=16-17) to within 10 deg of the galactic plane. The 2Mass Galaxy Catalogue is expected to contain over a million galaxies and will be an invaluable aid to mapping the local density field out to z=0.1
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- 1994
- Bibcode:
- 1994STIN...9518001P
- Keywords:
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- All Sky Photography;
- Astronomical Catalogs;
- Experiment Design;
- Galaxies;
- Image Processing;
- Near Infrared Radiation;
- Sky Surveys (Astronomy);
- Cosmology;
- Infrared Telescopes;
- Tables (Data);
- Astronomy