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Publication

2012-10-21 - Springer

Word Count

71,000 words, Guess

Page Count

284 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL27968033M
  • ISBN-139789401064422
  • ISBN-109401064423

Classifications

  • LCCQB495-500.269QB4QA27

Description

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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