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2MASS All-Sky Extended Source Catalog

Permalinks

https://doi.org/10.26131/IRSA97
https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/10.26131/IRSA97

DOI

10.26131/IRSA97

Publisher

IPAC

Author(s)

Two-Micron All Sky Survey Science Team

Title

2MASS All-Sky Extended Source Catalog

Description

2MASS has uniformly scanned the entire sky in three near-infrared bands to detect and characterize point sources brighter than about 1 mJy in each band, with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) greater than 1.

This dataset or service is made available by the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at IPAC, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Data type

Dataset

Url

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/Gator/nph-dd?catalog=fp_xsc

Version

Date of data collection

Year of publication