2MASS-PSC: Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
2MASS All-Sky Point Source Catalog

Short name: 2MASS-PSC IVOA Identifier: ivo://irsa.ipac/2MASS/Catalog/PSCPublisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID] More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/2MASS/docs/releases/allsky/doc/sec2_2.html VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2006 Feb 23 21:59:31Z
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Description

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.

More About this Resource

About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID]

Creator: Two-Micron All Sky Survey Science Team Contributor: University of Massachusetts, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center

Contact Information:

X IRSA Support Team
Email: irsasupport at ipac.caltech.edu
Address:

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: 1
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

This resource was registered on: 2006 Feb 23 21:59:31Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2021 May 25 00:17:54Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService: This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Catalog	Subject keywords: Infrared Astronomy Surveys
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/2MASS/docs/releases/allsky/doc/sec2_2.html
Related Resources: Services that provide access to data in this resource: IRSA TAP service ivo://irsa.ipac/TAP [Res. ID]

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Reference Coordinate System: UTC-ICRS-TOPOXXivo://STClib/CoordSys#UTC-ICRS-TOPO[Res. ID] Sky Coverage: Regions covered: All-sky: The data from this resource is distributed over the entire sky. Wavebands covered: Infrared Temporal Coverage: 1997-06-01T00:00:00.0Z - 2001-02-15T00:00:00.0Z

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/SCS?table=fp_psc&

Maximum search radius accepted: 180 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 2147483647
This service will ignore the VERB input parameter.

	Table Access Protocol - Auxiliary ServiceXX
	This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input an ADQL or PQL query and returns tabular data. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Description: To access this resource via TAP, issue ADQL queries on the table named fp_psc. Available endpoints for the standard interface: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP

	Custom Service
	This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Available endpoints for this service interface: Interactive web page: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/Gator/nph-dd?catalog=fp_psc