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The Archive of M, L, and T Dwarfs

2MASS Project Pages

• 2MASS Explanatory Supplement Materials
  • Image anomalies
  • Check of 2MASS All-Sky release with SDSS EDR
• 2MASS Quality Assurance
  • New scoring rules
  • Old scoring rules
  • Cloudy scans in the 2MASS Final Release data
  • Tiles with all observations lower than Q=5
  • Analysis of scoring changes between v2 and v3 processing.
  • Scans requiring special handling in v3.0
  • Scans with astrometric anomalies in v3.0
  • Quality assurance documentation for Explanatory Supplement, Spring 1999
  • Intermediate SIT file specification for version 2 and version 3.
  • Intermediate CIT file specification for version 3.
  • List of photometric vs. non-photometric scans in 6x processing.
  • Intermediate SIT file specification for 6x processing.
  • Final SIT and CIT file specifications for version 3.
• 2MASS Analysis Memos
  • Analysis of deblending in v3 OPS test data
  • Removal of consistently deblended standards from cal fields
  • Sigma vs. mag plots for PSFs in version2 and version3 processing
  • Focus test results for 980913n
  • Focus test results for 980914n
  • Focus test results for 980915n
  • Focus test results for 980916n
  • Focus test results for 980918n
  • Focus test results for 980919n
  • Northern H array degradation in late 1998
  • The Ks-only flare star... that wasn't
• 2MASS Meetings
  • External Review Board, June 2001
  • External Review Board, July 2000
  • External Review Board, October 1998
• 2MASS Data Oddities from Early Data Processing
  • Very bright meteor
  • Non-parallel meteor trails
  • Crossing meteors
  • Airplane at J-band and Ks-band
  • Walking doughnut
  • Very bright star
  • Bright star artifact
  • Moth
  • Bug flyby
  • Wild J zero-point changes
  • J-band banding
  • Galaxy compromised by banding

Conference Papers by the 2MASS Rare Objects Team

• Fourth Tetons Summer Conference on Galactic Structure, Stars, and the Interstellar Medium
  • Burgasser (2000): T Dwarfs Discovered by 2MASS
  • Burgasser et al. (2000): Optical Spectroscopy of T Dwarfs
  • Kirkpatrick (2000): A New Census of the Solar Neighborhood
  • Reid (2000): Beyond M: Ultracool Dwarfs in the Solar Neighbourhood
• Ultracool Dwarfs Meeting during XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU
  
  • Burgasser et al. (2000): The Classification of T Dwarfs
  • Gizis (2000): Activity and Kinematics of M and L Dwarfs
  • Kirkpatrick (2000): The Classification of L Dwarfs
  • Kirkpatrick et al. (2000): Low-Luminosity Companions to Nearby Stars: Status of the 2MASS Data Search
  • Reid et al. (2000): Low-mass Stellar and Brown Dwarf Binary Systems