The two micron all sky survey

✍ Scribed by S. G. Kleinmann; M. G. Lysaght; W. L. Pughe; S. E. Schneider; M. F. Skrutskie; M. D. Weinberg; S. D. Price; K. Y. Matthews; B. T. Soifer; J. P. Huchra; C. A. Beichman; T. J. Chester; T. Jarrett; G. L. Kopan; C. J. Lonsdale; J. Elias; J. W. Liebert; P. Seitzer

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 441 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0922-6435
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00430119

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes the design, expectations, and prototyping of a new allsky survey, called 2MASS (Two Micron All Sky Survey) to be carried out with the new generation of infrared array detectors.