2 Micron All Sky Survey - 2MASS - Revision history

Piper at 00:17, 18 January 2013

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 *wavelengths J (1.25 um), H (1.65 um), and Ks (2.17 um) in the Near Infrared (NIR)
-*over 500 million sources in the point source catalog, which are within our galaxy
+*over 500 million sources in the point source catalog
-*1.6 million sources in the extended source catalog which means there are an additional 1.6 million things out there but couldn't be resolved with 2MASS
+*1.6 million sources in the extended source catalog which were resolved
 *catalogs publicly available.

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 *wavelengths J (1.25 um), H (1.65 um), and Ks (2.17 um) in the Near Infrared (NIR)
-*over 500 million sources in the point source catalog
+*over 500 million sources in the point source catalog, which are within our galaxy
 *1.6 million sources in the extended source catalog which means there are an additional 1.6 million things out there but couldn't be resolved with 2MASS
 *catalogs publicly available.

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 *wavelengths J (1.25 um), H (1.65 um), and Ks (2.17 um) in the Near Infrared (NIR)
 *over 500 million sources in the point source catalog
-*1.6 million sources in the extended source catalog (I don't know what this means yet:)
+*1.6 million sources in the extended source catalog which means there are an additional 1.6 million things out there but couldn't be resolved with 2MASS
 *catalogs publicly available.

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−	'''[http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/overview/about2mass.html/ There is a lot more info here at the IPAC 2MASS page]'''	+	'''[http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/overview/about2mass.html There is a lot more info here at the IPAC 2MASS page]'''

	But I have not read through it all and I '''still''' don't know why its '''J, H, K''' which is '''not''' the order of the alphabet and it really bugs me!		But I have not read through it all and I '''still''' don't know why its '''J, H, K''' which is '''not''' the order of the alphabet and it really bugs me!

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-'''[http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/pow.html/   2MASS Picture of the Week]'''
+'''[http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/pow.html   2MASS Picture of the Week]'''
 [[File:2 Mass POW Orion.jpg|400px|thumb|center| Orion - Atlas Image courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF]]
 There is a really nice image out there somewhere that shows where 2MASS falls on the spectrum that I will try to find.

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−	'''2MASS''' the '''2 Micron All Sky''' ~~survey~~ is an all sky survey in the 2 micron range that used both northern and southern hemisphere 1.3 meter telescopes to cover the whole sky from 1997 through 2001 with a final post processing release in 2003.	+	'''2MASS''' the '''2 Micron All Sky Survey''' is an all sky survey in the 2 micron range that used both northern and southern hemisphere 1.3 meter telescopes to cover the whole sky from 1997 through 2001 with a final post processing release in 2003.

	According to wikipedia, the goals of 2MASS were to look into the areas of the Milky way hidden in visible light, to look for brown dwarfs and low mass stars and to create a catalog of all of the galaxies and stars 2MASS could detect.		According to wikipedia, the goals of 2MASS were to look into the areas of the Milky way hidden in visible light, to look for brown dwarfs and low mass stars and to create a catalog of all of the galaxies and stars 2MASS could detect.

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-'''2MASS''' the '''2 Micron All Sky''' survey is an all sky survey in the 2 micron range that used both northern and southern hemisphere telescopes to cover the whole sky from 1997 through 2001 with a final post processing release in 2003.
+'''2MASS''' the '''2 Micron All Sky''' survey is an all sky survey in the 2 micron range that used both northern and southern hemisphere 1.3 meter telescopes to cover the whole sky from 1997 through 2001 with a final post processing release in 2003.
 According to wikipedia, the goals of 2MASS were to look into the areas of the Milky way hidden in visible light, to look for brown dwarfs and low mass stars and to create a catalog of all of the galaxies and stars 2MASS could detect.
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 [[File:2 Mass POW Orion.jpg|400px|thumb|center| Orion - Atlas Image courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF]]

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	'''[http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/pow.html/ 2MASS Picture of the Week]'''		'''[http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/pow.html/ 2MASS Picture of the Week]'''
−	[[File:2 Mass POW Orion.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|~~right~~\| Orion - Atlas Image courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF]]	+
		+	[[File:2 Mass POW Orion.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|center\| Orion - Atlas Image courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF]]

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−	'''[[http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/pow.html/ 2MASS Picture of the Week]]'''	+	'''[http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/pow.html/ 2MASS Picture of the Week]'''
−	[[File:2 Mass POW Orion.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\| Orion - Atlas Image ~~[or Atlas Image mosaic]~~ courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF]]	+	[[File:2 Mass POW Orion.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\| Orion - Atlas Image courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF]]