2MASS_Allsky: Resource Record Summary

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Image Service:
2MASS All-Sky Image Atlas

Short name: 2MASS_Allsky IVOA Identifier: ivo://irsa.ipac/2MASS/Images/AllskyPublisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID] More Info: http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/2MASS/docs/releases/allsky/doc/explsup.html VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2024 Oct 01 00:00:00Z
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Description

The 2MASS All-Sky Data Release contains Image and Catalog data covering 99.998% of the sky, derived from all northern and southern Survey observations. The All-Sky Release products include a Point Source Catalog (PSC), containing positions and photometry for 470,992,970 objects, an Extended Source Catalog (XSC), containing positions, photometry and basic shape information for 1,647,599 resolved sources, most of which are galaxies, and the Image Atlas, containing over 4,121,439 J, H and Ks FITS images covering the sky.

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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: 2MASS Team

Contact Information:

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

Status of This Resource

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

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

Relevant dates for this Resource:

Creation: 2024 Oct 01

This resource was registered on: 2024 Oct 01 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2024 Oct 01 00:00:00Z

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 data (specifically, images). With this type of service, you can search for data by issuing a query, and information about available data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Survey	Subject keywords:
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/2MASS/docs/releases/allsky/doc/explsup.html

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Wavebands covered: Infrared

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Image Access (version 2.0)XX

This is a standard IVOA service used to search for images from this resource that overlap with a specified region of the sky.

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

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/SIA?COLLECTION=twomass_allsky&ampX(version compatible)

Image service type: Pointed: pre-computed non-survey images will be returned.
Maximum query region accepted:
Maximum region size returned: longitude: 0.14 degrees; latitude: 0.28 degrees
Maximum image size returned:
Maximum image size returned: 1 MB
Maximum number of matching records returned: 4121439

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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