2MASS Galaxy Science
& Analysis

T.H. Jarrett



See Also
T. Chester's page of
extensive data analysis


NGC 2903


CONTENTS:

  • Go to Extended Source Catalog: Overview and Algorithms,
    the primary documentation for galaxies.

  • Go to data anomalies

    General

    Specific Issues

    Analysis of specific Prototype Camera fields

    Completeness and Reliability


    Real 3-Channel Data Checkout


    General

    Image Gallery of Galaxies Found with the 2MASS Extended Source Processor


    • Galaxy Detection in 2MASS: Global Expectations and Results from Several Fields Chester, T., Jarrett, T., 1995, presented at the 1995 Denis workshop on galaxies and extended sources. (950301)

    Galaxy Detection in 2MASS Postscript version is the same as the now-online html version: Galaxy Detection in 2MASS: Global Expectations and Results from Severa l Fields Chester, T., Jarrett, T., 1995, presented at the 1995 Denis workshop on galaxies and extended sources. (950301)

    GALWORKS SDS (960807)
    Photometric Uncertainties and Upper Limit Jazz (960807)

    Star - Galaxy Discrimination Parameters (970501)

    Mapping the Heavens:
    The Next Generation of Celestial Surveys     (971007)

    Specific Issues

    The Effect of Stellar Contamination on Different Measures of Galaxy Photometry Jarrett, T., Chester, T., Schneider, S., & Hucra, J., 1996, in "The impact of Large Scale near-IR Sky Surveys,", p. 213, F. Garzon et al. (eds), Kluwer (Netherlands). (960301)

    Expected Number of Multiple Star Systems as a Function of Galactic Latitude Jarrett, T. (961211)

    Comparison of GALWORKS and IRAF's STSDAS Photometry in a Polar Field (970206)

    Galworks Ellipse Fitting:
    Results with Simulation Galaxies     Rosenberg & Jarrett (970410)

    Analysis of specific fields with the Prototype Camera

    GALWORKS Results for Four Scans in SA57: Algorithm 1 (970208)

    GALWORKS Results for Six Scans in SA57: Algorithm 2 (970214)

    GALWORKS Results for the COMA Core: Algorithm 1 (970223)

    GALWORKS Results for the COMA Core: Algorithm 2 (970225)

    GALWORKS Results for Scan 058 -- COMA Core
    Using K-replicated Scans     (970324)

    GALWORKS Results for Scan 083
    -- Abell 2065 -- Using K-replicated Scans     (970325)

    Detection of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with 2MASS -- COMA and SA57 (970420)

    Detection of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with 2MASS -- Presented at the 3rd EUROCONFERENCE on The impact of near-infrared surveys on galactic and extragalactic astronomy, Paris, 1997.

    Real 3-Channel Data Checkout

    M51 -- What happens within GALWORKS? (970423)

    GALWORKS Production of M51 & Companion (970429)

    Bright Star Cleansing in Galworks (970425)

    Bright Stars in the MSX Field (970429)

    Close Encounter with the Ring Nebula (970502)

    Star-Galaxy Discrimination in the Galactic Plane:
    Memo 1: 9th mag Galaxy Placed within MSX     (970505)

    Star-Galaxy Discrimination in the Galactic Plane:
    Memo 2: COMA + MSX     (970506)

    Coma Repeatibility (970520)

    Coma Repeatibility: Memo 2 -- Algorithm 2
    Low Central Surface Brightness Galaxies     (970602)

    GALWORKS Performance with Potential Standard Fields (970714)

    GALWORKS Performance on a Low Galactic Latitude Field

    970724 Focus Tests:
    Extended Source Detection     (970731)

    GALWORKS Performance on the Spiral-Rich Cluster Hercules (970801)

    GALWORKS Performance on A Large Field
    Toward the Hercules Supercluster     (970815)

    Application of Oblique Decision Trees
    to the GALWORKS Extended Source Candidates     (970818)

    Kron Apertures (970822)

    GALWORKS Performance on a High GLAT Field (970902)

    Bi-Symmetric Autocorrelation & such (970917)

    Bright Star Parameter Tuning (970923)

    GALWORKS Performance on a Low GLAT Field (971007)

    Galaxy 2-D Symmetry Diagnostics:
    A Quick Look at a High Glat Field     (971013)

    Automated Bright Star Masking (971021)

    Adventures with Maffei 1 & 2 (971028)

    Analysis of Photometric Noises for 2MASS Galaxies (980108)

    Analysis of the 2MASS Galaxy Color-Color Plot For Hercules (980120)

    Coma Repeatibility from 10 scans of 970521n (980428)

    Detailed Work with 3-Chan RTB Scans

    Expected Confusion Noise as a Function of Stellar Number Density
    Application of Confusion Noise and "Tuned" Score Thresholds     (980121)

    Star / Galaxy Discrimination: RTB Scores (980206)

    Optimized Star-Galaxy Discrimination (980218)

    Untracked Seeing (980422)

    Anomalies with Airglow, Banding, Seeing, ... Etc (most from TChester)
    XSC Catalog & Related Issue



    Cool Galaxies (& other extended sources) (980715)

    A Galaxy Circus

    Library of 2MASS Galaxies: Morphological Identifications

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