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The Two Micron All-Sky Survey: Removing the Infrared Foreground
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2016
Abstract
We introduce the properties of the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) for IAU Symposium 204. 2MASS is a near-infrared survey of the entire sky characterized by high reliability and completeness. Catalogs and images for 47% of the sky are now available online. This data release has been used by Wright (2000) and Cambrésy et al. (2000) to subtract the stellar foreground at 1.25 and 2.2 microns from COBE DIRBE data, revealing the cosmological near-infrared background.
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