The Two Micron All-Sky Survey: Removing the Infrared Foreground

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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 Cambresy 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.
To appear in IAU Symposium 204, The Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implications, ed. M. Harwit and M. G. Hauser, 10 pages

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/1903

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https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010461
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