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Catalog Service:
2MASS All-Sky Extended Source Catalog

Short name: 2MASS-XSC
IVOA Identifier: ivo://irsa.ipac/2MASS/Catalog/XSCPublisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID]
More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/2MASS/docs/releases/allsky/doc/sec2_3.html
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2006 Feb 23 22:02:43Z
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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.

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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 22:02:43Z
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:
  • General: This resource provides information appropriate for all users.
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/2MASS/docs/releases/allsky/doc/sec2_3.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_xsc&
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_xsc.
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:


Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute

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