The Impact of Near-Infrared Sky Surveys on Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Infrared Survey Status

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Deep near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS)

      • N. Epchtein

      Pages 3-9

   3. The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS): Status Report November 1997

      • M. F. Skrutskie

      Pages 11-15

   4. Midcourse Space Experiment Surveys

      • Stephan D. Price, Michael P. Egan, Russell F. Shipman, Martin Cohen, Mehrdad Moshir

      Pages 17-27

3. Galactic Structure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The Impact of IR Surveys on Galactic Structure

      • O. Bienaymé

      Pages 31-40

   3. Resolved DENIS and UKIRT Infrared Stellar Observations Towards the Galactic Centre

      • M. Unavane, G. Gilmore

      Pages 41-47

   4. Mass-Losing AGB Stars and Young Stars in the Isogal Survey

      • A. Omont, B. Caillaud, P. Fouque, G. Gilmore, D. Ojha, M. Perault et al.

      Pages 49-56

   5. Galactic Bulge from TMGS Star Counts

      • M. López-Corredoira, F. Garzón, P. L. Hammersley, T. J. Mahoney, X. Calbet

      Pages 57-61

   6. IR Star Counts in the Inner Disc

      • P. L. Hammersley, F. Garzón, T. Mahoney, M. López-Corredoira

      Pages 63-68

   7. Spatial Distribution of Evolved Giant Stars in the Galactic Disc Using DENIS Data

      • Stéphanie Ruphy

      Pages 69-69

4. Stars

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Infrared Emission of Carbon Stars

      • M. A. T. Groenewegen

      Pages 73-86

   3. AGB Stars in the Galactic Bulge Observed by DENIS

      • M. Schultheis, G. Simon, J. Hron

      Pages 87-94

   4. Analysis of DENIS Data in ISOGAL Fields

      • C. Alard

      Pages 95-100

   5. In Quest of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs with Near-IR Surveys

      • T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, N. Epchtein

      Pages 101-108

   6. Searching for Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs with 2MASS

      • J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Michael F. Skrutskie, James Liebert, Kevin Luhman, Matt Fisher, Roc Cutri et al.

      Pages 109-113

   7. DENIS Survey of AGB and Tip-RGB Stars in the LMC Bar West and Optical Center Fields

      • C. Loup, P. A. Duc, P. Fouqué, E. Bertin, N. Epchtein

      Pages 115-127

   8. DeNIS and Hipparcos: Luminosity and Kinematic Calibrations

      • R. Alvarez, M-O. Mennessier

      Pages 129-133

Thirty years after the pioneering enterprise of Neugebauer and collabo­ rators, the astronomical sky is surveyed anew in the near infrared range with a gain in sensitivity greater than 4 orders of magnitude. Data have started to come through the "pipelines" routinely and at the turn of the century, the astronomical community will be provided with immense databases that will eventually contain accurate positions and 3- colour (or even 4-colour after merging DENIS and 2MASS data) photometry for hundreds million of stars and millions of galaxies. This fantastic harvest of data will eventually result of the huge effort that has been deployed on both sides of the Antlantic to promote 2 major projects, 2MASS and DENIS. rd The basic aim of this 3 Euroconference (and last in the series), was to put in close contact the scientific teams of 2MASS and DENIS in order to present and discuss the first significant results of the two surveys and to start promoting possible future plans

• Fitting
• Likelihood
• Statistica
• astronomy
• galaxy
• stars

• Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France

  N. Epchtein

• Département de Recherche Spatiale, Observatoire de Paris, France

  N. Epchtein

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