Science with Astronomical Near-Infrared Sky Surveys

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Infrared and Other Sky Surveys

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. DENIS: A Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky

      • N. Epchtein, B. De Batz, E. Copet, P. Fouqué, F. Lacombe, T. Le Bertre et al.

      Pages 3-9

   3. The Two Micron All Sky Survey

      • S. G. Kleinmann, M. G. Lysaght, W. L. Pughe, S. E. Schneider, M. F. Skrutskie, M. D. Weinberg et al.

      Pages 11-17

   4. The Influence of Crowding on Denis Point Source Detection Rates

      • András Holl, Erik Deul

      Pages 19-22

   5. Strategy of Denis Observations

      • S. Kimeswenger, C. Kienel

      Pages 23-24

   6. First Results Obtained with Denis

      • E. Copet, B. De Batz, N. Epchtein, P. Fouqué, F. Lacombe, T. Le Bertre et al.

      Pages 25-26

   7. Sloan Digital Sky Survey

      • Stephen M. Kent

      Pages 27-30

   8. The Guide Star Catalog and Related Sky Surveys

      • Helmut Jenkner

      Pages 31-34

   9. Infrared Space Borne Experiments To Study Galactic Structure

      • Stephan D. Price

      Pages 35-40

   10. The Project “spice”

       • D. Rouan, N. Epchtein, M. De Muizon, F. Lacombe, P. Puget, D. Tiphene et al.

       Pages 41-44

   11. Edison — The International Infrared Space Observatory

       • H. J. Walker

       Pages 45-48

   12. Classification of Astronomical Images with a Neural Network

       • E. Bertin

       Pages 49-51

   13. The Project of High Spatial Resolution Near Infrared Imaging System at Beijing Observatory

       • J. Y. Hu

       Pages 53-54

3. Low Mass Stars and Main Sequence Stars

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. DENIS, 2MASS and VLM Stars

      • Neill Reid

      Pages 57-62

   3. Low Mass Stars

      • Hartmut Jahreiss

      Pages 63-68

   4. The Search for Brown Dwarfs with Infrared Surveys

      • T. J. Chester

      Pages 69-76

   5. Hipparcos and Red Dwarf Populations

      • C. Turon, F. Crifo, D. Morin

      Pages 77-82

   6. Sternberg WBVR Photometric Survey of Bright Stars

      • A. Cherepashchuk, K. H. Khaliullin, V. Kornilov, A. Mironov

      Pages 83-85

Outstanding progress in near-infrared detection technology and in real-time image processing has led astronomers to start undertaking all-sky surveys in the 1--2 mum range (project DENIS in Europe and 2MASS in the U.S.A.), surveys which will have a considerable impact in various areas of astronomy. This book gathers the contributions of more than 80 specialists involved in fields of interest as different as low mass stars, late stages of stellar evolution, star formation, stellar populations of the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds, the local structure of the Universe, and observational cosmology. It describes the impact on these fields of the exhaustive data bases and catalogs of stars and galaxies that these surveys will provide. The considerable interest of these documents for the future of infrared space and ground-based projects and the complementarity with other currently ongoing or planned surveys in other spectral ranges are emphasized.

• LOPES
• Population
• SR
• Universe
• active galactic nuclei
• astronomy
• cosmology
• galaxies
• observational cosmology
• observatory
• photometry
• spectroscopy
• star
• star formation
• stellar evolution

• Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France

  N. Epchtein

• Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France

  A. Omont

• Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

  B. Burton

• Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, Frascati, Italy

  P. Persi

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