The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)

By M. Skrutskie, R. Cutri, R. Stiening, M. Weinberg, Simona Schneider, J. Carpenter, C. Beichman, R. Capps, T. Chester, J. Elias and 21 more. 2006

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The second data release of the INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS DR2) (2014, methodology): “The parameters of this solution are then progressively refined by fitting against the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS; Skrutskie et al. 2006), albeit without correcting for the ∼10 yr of proper motion between the IPHAS and 2MASS epochs.”
HIGH- AND INTERMEDIATE-MASS YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD (2009, methodology): “An astrometric frame for each exposure was then established using the WCSTOOLS program IMWCS and the Two Micron All Sky Survey Point Source Catalog (2MASS PSC; Skrutskie et al. 2006).”
A REVISED EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE SCALE FOR THE KEPLER INPUT CATALOG (2011, methodology): “JHKs photometry was taken from the All Sky Data Release of the 2MASS Point Source Catalog (PSC; Skrutskie et al. 2006)7, and checked against complementary information in the KIC itself.”
Stellar populations in the Milky Way bulge region: towards solving the Galactic bulge and bar shapes using 2MASS data (2011, methodology): “We use the Two Micron All Sky Survey, hereafter 2MASS (Skrutskie et al., 2006) photometry and a model-fitting procedure based on the Besançon Galaxy model (BGM) (Robin et al., 2003) and explore a wide region -20◦ l 20◦ and -10◦ b 10◦ to fit a multidimensional space of parameters defining the…”
ATLASGAL — towards a complete sample of massive star forming clumps ⋆ (2014, methodology): “For this process, we start with near-infrared photometry from the 2MASS (Skrutskie et al. 2006), UKIDSS (Lucas et al. 2008) or Vista-VVV (Minniti et al. 2010) surveys and mid-infrared photometry taken from MSX (Egan et al. 2003) and WISE (Wright et al. 2010) – see Lumsden et al. (2013) for a…”
The GALAH Survey: Second Data Release (2018, methodology): “At optical and infrared wavelengths, large-scale photometric surveys have delivered accurate photometric magnitudes and colours for several hundred millions of stars (e.g., Skrutskie et al. 2006; Saito et al. 2012; Chambers et al. 2016; Wolf et al. 2018).”
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): survey diagnostics and core data release (2010, background): “Three of the most-notable wide-area surveys in recent times, with a focus on galactic and galaxy evolution, are the Two-Micron AllSky Survey (2MASS; Skrutskie et al. 2006), the Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS; Colless et al. 2001, 2003) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York…”
S-COSMOS: The Spitzer Legacy Survey of the Hubble Space Telescope ACS 2 deg2 COSMOS Field I: Survey Strategy and First Analysis (2007, methodology): “Stars were identified using both the Robin et al. (2006) catalog derived from ACS morphology, and the 2MASS PSC catalog (Skrutskie et al. 2006) for the bright end.”
THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III (2012, methodology): “Reddened Quasars: Quasar candidates likely to be intrinsically reddened with E(B-V) > 0.5 were selected from SDSS photometry and either FIRST or the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS; Skrutskie et al. 2006).”
Mass loss of stars on the asymptotic giant branch (2018, background): “…and the completeness of the estimated mass-loss rates for objects in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) have improved significantly due to the large surveys performed, e.g., MCPS (Zaritsky et al. 2004), 2MASS (Skrutskie et al. 2006), SAGE (Meixner et al. 2006), and AKARI IRC Survey (Ita et al. 2008).”
New Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheids from Spatially Scanning the Hubble Space Telescope: Implications for the Hubble Constant (2018, background): “Failure to do so would leave the system-to-system systematic uncertainty in the NIR of σ∼0.03 mag (Skrutskie et al. 2006; Kalirai et al. 2009), precluding a 1% determination of H0.”
The Wolf-Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud - A comprehensive analysis of the WN class (2014, methodology): “Near-infrared magnitudes (J,H,KS ) were retrieved from the 2MASS catalog (Skrutskie et al. 2006), except for those stars which are located in the too crowded field of 30 Dor.”
Subtle Signatures of Multiplicity in Late-type Dwarf Spectra: The Unresolved M8.5 + T5 Binary 2MASS J03202839–0446358 (2008, methodology): “Previous Observations of 2MASS J0320−0446 2MASS J0320−0446 was originally discovered by Cruz et al. (2003) and Wilson et al. (2003) in the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS; Skrutskie et al. 2006), and classified M8: (uncertain) and L0.”
INTERSTELLAR EXTINCTION LAW TOWARD THE GALACTIC CENTER III: J, H, KS BANDS IN THE 2MASS AND THE MKO SYSTEMS, AND 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0 μm IN THE SPITZER/IRAC SYSTEM (2009, methodology): “We performed a photometric calibration with 2MASS point source catalog (Skrutskie et al. 2006).”
Clusters and mirages: cataloguing stellar aggregates in the Milky Way (2019, methodology): “…known clusters or candidates listed in the literature were detected by means of infrared photometry and are A99, page 8 of 22 too obscured to be observed by Gaia; for instance, that describes most of the FSR clusters discovered by Froebrich et al. (2007) in 2MASS photometry (Skrutskie et al. 2006).”
LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products (2008, background): “As vividly demonstrated by surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York et al. 2000), the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS; Skrutskie et al. 2006), and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX; Martin et al. 2006), to name but a few, sensitive and accurate multi-color surveys over a large…”
THE GALACTIC O-STAR SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY (GOSSS). II. BRIGHT SOUTHERN STARS (2013, methodology): “…research has made extensive use of: [a] Aladin (Bonnarel et al. 2000); [b] the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France; [c] the Washington Double Star Catalog, maintained at the U.S. Naval Observatory (Mason et al. 2001); and [d] the 2MASS Point Source Catalog (Skrutskie et al. 2006).”
On the fine structure of the Cepheid metallicity gradient in the Galactic thin disk (2014, methodology): “The above samples were complemented with 2MASS single-epoch NIR observations (Skrutskie et al. 2006).”