Ebook: The Impact of Large Scale Near-IR Sky Surveys: Proceedings of a Workshop held at Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife(Spain), 22–26 April 1996

After a year's successful operation, the European DENIS project is now a scientific reality and its close cousin 2MASS (USA) is about to come into operation. The observational and data reduction processes of both DENIS and 2MASS are fully described in this volume.
Already the impact of DENIS is making itself felt in the astronomical community in areas of research as diverse as cosmology, the evolution of galaxies, the interstellar medium, the search for brown dwarfs, and stellar structure and evolution. The first routine results from DENIS and the preliminary results from the 2MASS prototype camera are discussed and compared with other surveys across the wavelength spectrum, both space- and ground-based, including the Digitized Sky Survey, ISO and ROSAT.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Infrared Surveys: The Impact on Modern Astronomy....Pages 3-13
The Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey (DENIS)....Pages 15-24
The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS): Overview and Status....Pages 25-32
The Denis Operations....Pages 33-36
The Guide Star Catalog and the Digitized Sky Survey as Resources for other Surveys....Pages 37-44
The ISO Serendipity Survey....Pages 45-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Galactic Warps....Pages 49-56
Studying Galactic Structure and Evolution with Galaxy Models....Pages 57-61
Large-Scale Near-Infrared Counts and Galactic Structure....Pages 63-66
Interpreting Surveys with Models....Pages 67-70
Galactic Plane Investigation from Denis Observations....Pages 71-75
The 15-µM Isogal Survey of the Inner Galactic Disc....Pages 77-80
Stellar Population Synthesis....Pages 81-89
Modelling the Distribution of Red Variables in the Multicolor (I, J, K, 12µM) Parameter Space....Pages 91-94
Infrared Appearance of Time-Dependent Models of Dust—Enshrouded Carbon-Mira Atmospheres....Pages 95-99
First Results of a Near-Infrared Monitoring Programme of OH/IR Stars....Pages 101-102
The Database of Galactic Planetary Nebulae at Innsbruck....Pages 103-104
A Method for Correcting Star Counts in Moderately Overcrowded Fields....Pages 105-106
A Model for the Emission of the Stellar Warp in the Near Infrared and Its Comparison with the Stellar Warp....Pages 107-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-112
A Large Deep K’-Band Galaxy Survey....Pages 47-47
1.6µM Classification of Bright Sources Discovered during 2MASS Prototyping....Pages 113-116
A Large-Scale 13CO Distribution of the Galaxy....Pages 117-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-126
A DENIS Survey of Orion Molecular Clouds....Pages 127-127
Large Scale Distribution of T Tauri Stars as Observed with the ROSAT X-ray Survey....Pages 129-134
X-ray/IR Observations of Molecular Cloud Cores....Pages 135-142
Prospects of Brown Dwarf Detection by Near-Infrared Surveys (DENIS, 2MASS)....Pages 143-148
Search for Evolved Objects and Young Stellar Objects from the Denis Database....Pages 149-156
The Search for Star Formation Regions....Pages 157-159
Star Formation in the Vela Molecular Clouds: H2 Imaging Survey....Pages 161-164
Near-IR Characterization of AGB Sources....Pages 165-168
The Multispectral Study of Galactic Plane Star-Forming Regions (Southern Hemisphere)....Pages 169-170
Clustering around Herbig AE/BE Stars....Pages 171-172
Young Stellar Objects in L1641: A Submillimeter Continuum Study....Pages 173-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-176
Denis Data Processing at PDAC....Pages 177-178
The 2MASS Point Source Processing Pipeline: Design and Prototype Results....Pages 179-179
The Optical Identification of Denis Sources....Pages 181-186
Photometric Calibration of Denis....Pages 187-195
The ISO Calibration Programme....Pages 197-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-204
The Effect of Stellar Contamination on Different Measures of Galaxy Photometry....Pages 205-211
Self Organizing Maps and Imaging Surveys....Pages 179-179
Detection of Covered Substructures in Multidimensional Parameter Space....Pages 213-220
The Denis-Leda Connexion: A Running Pipeline....Pages 221-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-224
2MASS Extragalactic Studies: Early Results from the Prototype Camera....Pages 225-228
Preliminary Galaxy Extraction from Denis Images....Pages 229-229
Classification of Galaxies in the Optical Versus the Near Infrared....Pages 231-238
Circumnuclear Starbursts in Barred Galaxies....Pages 239-248
A New Model of Spectral Evolution of Galaxies: Pegase....Pages 249-252
Broad-Band Energy Distribution of Faint IRAS Galaxies....Pages 253-256
The Radio Properties of X-Ray Selected AGNS....Pages 257-259
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