2MASS QL: Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Image Service:
2MASS All-Sky Quicklook Image Service

Short name: 2MASS QL IVOA Identifier: ivo://irsa.ipac/2MASS/Images/ASKY-QLPublisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID] More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/2MASS/IM VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2004 Apr 21 19:07:34Z
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Description

This service provides access to and information about the 2MASS All-Sky Quicklook Images. The Quicklook Images delivered by this service are restored from lossy-compressed files in FITS format with full WCS information contained in the image headers. These images are suitable for position measurements, finding charts and visual inspection of the near-infrared sky.

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]

STScI Archivearchive@stsci.edu

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

This service apparently provides only public data

This resource was registered on: 2004 Apr 21 19:07:34Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2017 Mar 16 01:00:00Z

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: Archive	Subject keywords:
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/2MASS/IM

	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

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Image AccessXX

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/cgi-bin/2MASS/IM/nph-im_sia?type=ql&ds=asky&

Image service type: Atlas: pre-computed survey images will be returned.
Maximum query region accepted: longitude: 7.0 degrees; latitude: 7.0 degrees
Maximum region size returned: longitude: 0.3 degrees; latitude: 0.3 degrees
Maximum image size returned: 1024 X 512 pixels
Maximum image size returned: 1 MB
Maximum number of matching records returned: 12000