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The Two Micron All-Sky Survey: Removing the Infrared Foreground

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

John E. Gizis  and
Michael F. Skrutskie
John E. Gizis
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
Michael F. Skrutskie
Affiliation:
Dept of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA

Abstract

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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 204: The Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implication , 2001 , pp. 197 - 207
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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