2MASS All-Sky Extended Source Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors

1. Two-Micron All Sky Survey Science Team

Published by

NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive

Abstract

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.

Keywords

1. Infrared Astronomy
2. Surveys

See also HTML

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/2MASS/docs/releases/allsky/doc/sec2_3.html

IVOA Identifier IVOID

ivo://irsa.ipac/2MASS/Catalog/XSC

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS

For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/SCS?table=fp_xsc&

IVOA Table Access TAP

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).

Web browser access HTML

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