Publication Date
2000
Journal or Book Title
The Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implications, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #204
Abstract
We introduce the properties of the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) survey 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 Cambr´esy 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.
DOI
10.1017/S0074180900226065
Pages
197-207
Recommended Citation
Gizis, John E. and Skrutskie, Michael F., "The Two Micron All-Sky Survey: Removing the Infrared Foreground" (2000). The Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implications, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #204. 97.
10.1017/S0074180900226065
Comments
This is a pre-published version which is collected from arXiv. The published version is at http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001IAUS..204..197G.