The 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Huchra J.P.
  2. Macri L.M.
  3. Masters K.L.
  4. Jarrett T.H.
  5. Berlind P.,Calkins M.
  6. Crook A.C.
  7. Cutri R.
  8. Erdogdu P.
  9. Falco E.
  10. George T.,Hutcheson C.M.
  11. Lahav O.
  12. Mader J.
  13. Mink J.D.
  14. Martimbeau N.
  15. Schneider S.,Skrutskie M.
  16. Tokarz S.
  17. Westover M.
  18. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the results of the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS), a ten-year project to map the full three-dimensional distribution of galaxies in the nearby universe. The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) was completed in 2003 and its final data products, including an extended source catalog (XSC), are available online. The 2MASS XSC contains nearly a million galaxies with Ks<=13.5mag and is essentially complete and mostly unaffected by interstellar extinction and stellar confusion down to a galactic latitude of |b|=5{deg} for bright galaxies. Near-infrared wavelengths are sensitive to the old stellar populations that dominate galaxy masses, making 2MASS an excellent starting point to study the distribution of matter in the nearby universe. We selected a sample of 44599 2MASS galaxies with Ks<=11.75mag and |b|>=5{deg} (>=8{deg} toward the Galactic bulge) as the input catalog for our survey. We obtained spectroscopic observations for 11000 galaxies and used previously obtained velocities for the remainder of the sample to generate a redshift catalog that is 97.6% complete to well-defined limits and covers 91% of the sky. This provides an unprecedented census of galaxy (baryonic mass) concentrations within 300Mpc. Earlier versions of our survey have been used in a number of publications that have studied the bulk motion of the Local Group, mapped the density and peculiar velocity fields out to 50h^-1^Mpc, detected galaxy groups, and estimated the values of several cosmological parameters. Additionally, we present morphological types for a nearly complete sub-sample of 20860 galaxies with Ks<=11.25mag and |b|>=10{deg}.

Keywords
  1. Galaxies
  2. Infrared sources
  3. Extinction
  4. Infrared photometry
  5. Redshifted
  6. Surveys
  7. Catalogs
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2012ApJS..199...26H
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/199/26
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/199/26
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21990026

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History

2012-07-27T09:09:54Z
Resource record created
2012-07-27T09:09:54Z
Created
2017-09-19T14:21:02Z
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