II. User's Guide to the 2MASS All-Sky Data Release

6. Ancillary Files

g. PSC and XSC Anomaly Files

Table 6 - Spurious Sources in the 2MASS All Sky Release PSC

/ 2MASS PSC Anomaly List - Spurious Sources
/ Entries that have been visually confirmed to be false extractions
/
/ Last Updated - 3 November 2002
|   pts_key |    ra     |    dec    |  designation   | description                                                  |
|   int     |  double   |  double   |  char          | char                                                         |
   323829159    4.476740   12.776640 00175441+1246359 Halo of bright star
   753820898   22.716885   21.803043 01305205+2148109 Probably cosmic ray plus noise
   223763182  157.180823   -8.689588 10284339-0841225 Meteor streak
   883472259  210.122984    4.914377 14002951+0454517 Meteor streak
  1015096731  253.895678   59.999634 16553496+5959586 Meteor streak

Table 7 Contaminated Sources in the 2MASS All Sky Release PSC

/ 2MASS PSC Anomaly List - Contaminated Sources
/ Entries that have been visually confirmed to be detections of real sources,
/ but whose photometry and/or astrometry is likely to be contaminated
/
/ Last Updated - 3 November 2002
|   pts_key |    ra     |    dec    |  designation   | description                                                  |
|   int     |  double   |  double   |  char          | char                                                         |
  1249447043  181.218034  -14.289430 12045232-1417219 Anomalously bright Ks-magnitude due to cosmic ray hit
  129631428   207.518838  -29.457777 13500452-2927279 Anomalous H and Ks magnitudes, very large chi-squared values
   319813469  234.370222   -0.884827 15372885-0053053 SA107-35, bright star with meteor trail superposed  
   980113191  236.015445    2.520043 15440370+0231121 Anomalous J-magnitude, in wing of bright star
  1017168084  242.177978    8.590819 16084271+0835269 Anomalously faint J-magnitude, in wing of bright star
  1037965372  265.406026   59.662052 17413744+5939433 Anomalously bright Ks magnitude due to cosmic ray?
  1260394119  335.073974   12.627142 22201775+1237377 Anomalously faint J-magnitude, in wing of bright star

[Last Updated: 2005 October 13, by R. Cutri]