2MASS extended source catalog: Overview and algorithms

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2498-2531

  Jarrett, T H ^a   Chester, T ^a   Cutri, R ^a   Schneider, S ^b   Skrutskie, M ^b   Huchra, J P ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: general; Methods: data analysis; Surveys; Techniques: image processing; Techniques: miscellaneous; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001453004     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301330     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Bahcall, J. N., & Soneira, R. M. 1980, ApJS, 44, 73
2. Beichman, C. A., Chester, T. J., Skrutskie, M., Low, F. J., & Gillett, F. 1998, PASP, 110, 480
3. Bertin, E., & Arnouts, S. 1996, A&AS, 117, 393
4. Binggeli, B., & Jerjen, H. 1998, A&A, 333, 17
5. Breiman, L., Freidman, J., Olshen, R., & Stone, C. 1984, Classification and Regression Trees (Monterey, CA: Wadsworth & Brooks)
6. Bruzual A. G., & Charlot, S. 1993, ApJ, 405, 538
7. Cutri, R. M. 1997, in The Impact of Large Scale Near-IR Sky Surveys, ed. F. Garzón et al. (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 187
8. Elias, J. H. 1978, ApJ, 224, 453
9. Fayyad, U. 1994, in Proc. Twelfth Natl. Conf. Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 6601
10. Hacking, P. 1987, Ph.D. thesis, Cornell Univ.
11. Hacking, P., & Houck, J. R. 1987, ApJS, 63, 311
12. Jarrett, T. H. 1992, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Massachusetts
13. _. 1998, in The Impact of Near-Infrared Sky Surveys on Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy, ed. N. Epchtein, (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 239
14. Jarrett, T. H., Chester, T., Cutri, R., Hurt, R., Schneider, S., & Huchra, J. P. 2000a, AJ, in press
15. Jarrett, T. H., Chester, T., Cutri, R., Schneider, S., & Huchra, J. P. 2000b, in preparation (Paper II)
16. Jarrett, T. H., Chester, T., Schneider, S., & Huchra, J. P. 1997, in The Impact of Large Scale Near-IR Sky Surveys, ed. F. Garzón et al. (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 213
17. Kleinmann, S., et al. 1994a, Ap&SS, 217, 11
18. Kleinmann, S., et al. 1994b, in Infrared Astronomy with Arrays, ed. I. S. McClean (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 219
19. Koo, D. C. 1986, ApJ, 311, 651
20. Kron, R. G. 1980, ApJS, 43, 305
21. Murthy, S. K., Kasif, S., & Salzberg, S. 1994, J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2, 1
22. Odewahn, S. C., Stockwell, E. B., Pennington, R. L., Humphreys, R. M., & Zumach, W. A. 1992, AJ, 103, 318
23. Ramsay, S. K., Mountain, C. M., & Geballe, T. R. 1992, MNRAS, 259, 751
24. Salzberg, S., Chandar, R., Ford, H., Murthy, S., & White, R. 1995, PASP, 107, 279
25. Schneider, S. E., Huchra, J. P., Jarrett, T. H., & Chester, T. J. 1997, in The Impact of Large Scale Near-IR Sky Surveys, ed. F. Garzón et al. (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 187
26. Sérsic, J. L. 1968, Atlas de Galaxies Australes (Cordoba: Obs. Astron., Univ. Nac. Cordoba)
27. Skrutskie, M., et al. 1997, in The Impact of Large Scale Near-IR Sky Survey, ed. F. Garzón et al. (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 25
28. Stetson, P. B. 1990, PASP, 102, 932
29. Szalay, A. S., Connolly, A. J., & Szokoly, G. P. 1999, AJ, 117, 68
30. Valdes, F. 1982, SPIE Proc., 331, 465
31. Weir, N., Fayyad, U. M., & Djorgovski, S. 1995, AJ, 109, 2401
32. White, R. L. 1997, in Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy II, ed. G. Babu & E. Feigelson (New York: Springer), 135