The Impact of Large Scale Near-IR Sky Surveys: Proceedings of a Workshop held at Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife(Spain), 22–26 April 1996

263 Pages·1997·7.349 MB·English

by  Stephan D. Price (auth.), F. Garzón, N. Epchtein, A. Omont, B. Burton, P. Persi (eds.)

THE IMP ACT OF LARGE SCALE NEAR-IR SKY SURVEYS
ASTROPHYSICS AND
SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY
VOLUME 210
Executive Committee
w.
B. BURTON, Sterrewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands
1. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
E. P. 1. VA N DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University ofA msterdam,
The Netherlands
H. VANDER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Editorial Board
I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Konigstuhl, Germany
1. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.SA.
F. BERTOLA, Universitii di Padova, Italy
W. B. BURTON, Sterrewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands
1. P. CASSINELLI, University ofW isconsin, Madison, U.S.A.
C.1. CESARSKY, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex. France
1. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JlLA, Boulder, U.S.A.
P. G. MURDIN, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, U.K.
F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia
R. A. SUNY AEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
S. TREMAINE, CITA, University of Toronto, Canada
Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan
E. P. 1. VA N DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University ofA msterdam,
The Netherlands
H. VANDER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands
N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
THE IMPACT OF
LARGE SCALE NEAR-IR
SKY SURVEYS
Proceedings of a Workshop
held at Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Spain),
22-26 April1996
Edited by
F.GARZON
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
N.EPCHTEIN
Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
A.OMONT
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
B.BURTON
Sterrewacht Leiden, The Netherlands
and
P. PERSI
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, Frascati, Italy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Participants xi
F. GARZ6N, N. EPCHTEIN, W.B. BURTON, A. OMONT and P.
PERSI / Foreword xv
l. THE NEW IR-SURVEYS AND OTHER SURVEYS
S. D. PRICE / Infrared Surveys: the Impact on Modern Astronomy 3
N. EPCHTEIN / The Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey (DE-
NIS): Progress Status and Scientific Achievements 15
M. F. SKRUTSKIE, S. E. SCHNEIDER, R. STIENING, S. E. STROM,
M. D. WEINBERG, C. BEICHMAN, T. CHESTER, R. CUTRI,
C. LONSDALE, J. ELIAS, R. ELSTON R. CAPPS, J. CARPEN
TER, J. HUCHRA, J. LIEBERT, D. MONET, S. PRICE and P.
SElTZER / The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS): Overview
and Status 25
P. FOUQUE, E. BERTIN, P.-A. DUC and L. CHEVALLIER / The
DENIS Operations: Evaluation of the DENIS Survey from La
Silla 33
H. JENKNER, B. M. LASKER, B. J. MCLEAN, R. L. WHITE, M.
G. LATTANZI A. SPAGNA, S. ROSER, J. E. MORRISON and
E. SCHILBACH / The Guide Star Catalog and the Digitized Sky
Survey as Resources for Other Surveys 37
U. KLAAS, S. BOGUN, U. HERBSTMEIER, D. LEMKE, M. BURG-
DORF and R. LAUREIJS / The ISO Serendipity Survey 45
II. GALACTIC STRUCTURE
E. BATTANER, E. FLORIDO, J. JIMENEZ-VICENTE, C. PORCEL
and M. L. SANCHEZ-SAAVEDRA / Galactic Warps 49
A. C. ROBIN / Studying Galactic Structure and Evolution with Galaxy
Models 57
S. RUPHY, N. EPCHTEIN, A. C. ROBIN and M. COHEN / Large-
Scale Near-Infrared Counts and Galactic Structure 63
M. COHEN / Interpreting Surveys With Models 67
G. SIMON, A. C. ROBIN, A. OMONT and P. FOUQUE / Galactic
Plane Investigation from DENIS Observations 71
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M. UNAVANE and G. GILMORE / The Galactic Central Regions at
3.6 JLm 77
A. OMONT and J. BLOMMAERT / The 15-JLm ISOGAL Survey of the
Inner Galactic Disc 81
Y. K. NG / Stellar Population Synthesis; Baade's Window: OGLE
vs. DENIS 91
L. G. BALAzs and J. HRON / Modelling the Distribution of Red Vari-
ables in the Multicolor (I,J, J(, 12JLm) Parameter Space 95
A. J. FLEISCHER, J. M. WINTERS, E. SEDLMAYR and T. LE BER-
TRE / Infrared Appearance of Time-Dependent Models of Dust-
enshrouded Carbon-Mira Atmospheres 101
F. JIMENEZ~ESTEBAN, P. GARCIA-LARIO and A. MANCHADO /
First Results of a Near-infrared Monitoring Programme of OH/IR
Stars 103
S. KIMESWENGER and C. KIENEL / The Database of Galactic Plan-
etary Nebulae at Innsbruck: a DENIS Sub-database 105
M. LOPEZ-CORREDOIRA, F. GARZON, T. MAHONEY and P. L.
HAMMERSLEY / A Method for Correcting Star Counts in Mod-
erately Overcrowded Fields 107
C. PORCEL, E. BATTANER and J. JIMENEZ-VICENTE / A Model
for the Emission of the Stellar Warp in the Near Infrared and its
Comparison With the Stellar Warp 111
P. SARACCO, G. CHIN CARINI, A. IOVINO, B. GARILLI and D.
MACCAGNI / A Large Deep k'-band Galaxy Survey 113
M. F. SKRUTSKIE, M. G. LYSAGHT and M. D. WEINBERG / 1.6JLm
Classification of Bright Sources Discovered During 2MASS Proto-
typing 117
K. TACHIHARA, Y. YONEKURA, A.KAWAMURA, A. MIZUNO, H.
OGAWA and Y. FUKUI / A Large-scale 13CO Distribution of the
Galaxy: a Global View of Star Forming Clouds 119
III. STAR FORMATION REGIONS AND YOUNG OBJECTS
E. COPET, P. PERSI and D. ROUAN / A DENIS Survey of Orion
Molecular Clouds 129
R. NEUHAUSER and M. F. STERZIK / Large Scale Distribution of
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T Tauri Stars as Observed with the Rosat X-Ray Survey 135
T. MONTMERLE / X-Ray-IR Observations of Molecular Cloud Cores
143
E. L. MARTIN, M. R. ZAPATERO OSORIO and R. REBOLO / Prospects
of Brown Dwarf Detection by Near-IR Surveys (DENIS, 2MASS) 149
S. J. CHAN and F. GARZON / Search for Evolved Objects and Young
Stellar Objects from the DENIS Database 157
M. FELLI and L. TESTI / The Search for Star Formation Regions 161
M. A. T. GROENEWEGEN / From I, J, K To mBol in AGB Stars 165
D. LORENZETTI, F. MASSI, R. SCARAMELLA, F. VITALI and T.
GIANNINI/Star Formation in the Vela Molecular Clouds: H2
Imaging Survey 169
M. MARENGO, E. ROSEO, G. SILVESTRO, M. BUSSO and P. PERSI
/ Near-IR Characterization of AGB Sources 171
D. RUSSElL, P. AMRAM, Y. P. GEORGELIN, Y. M. GEORGELIN,
M. MARCELIN and E. LE COARER / The Multispectral Study
of Galactic Plane Star-Forming Regions 173
L. TESTI, S. MALTAGLIATI, F. PALLA, A. NATTA and T. PRUSTI
/ Clustering Around Herbig Ae/Be Stars 175
A. ZAVAGNO, S. MOLINARI, E. TOMMASI, P. SARACENO and M.
GRIFFIN / Young Stellar Objects in L1641: a Submillimeter Con-
tinuum Study 177
IV. IMAGE PROCESSING AND DATA DISSEMINATION
J. BORSENBERGER / DENIS Data Processing at PDAC 181
R. M. CUTRI / The 2MASS Point Source Processing Pipeline: Design
and Prototype Results 187
M. R. S. HAWKINS / The Optical Identification of DENIS Sources 197
F. GUGLIELMO, E. R. DEUL, P. FOUQUE, T. LE BERTRE, J. HRON
and M. SCHULTHEIS / Photometric Calibration of DENIS 201
A. MONETI and M. G. BREITFELLNER / The ISO Calibration Pro-
gramme 205
T. JARRETT, T. CHESTER, S. SCHNEIDER and J. HUCHRA / The
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Effect of Stellar Contamination on Different Measures of Galaxy
Photometry 213
E. BERTIN / Self Organizing Maps and Imaging Surveys 221
C. KIENEL and S. KIMESWENGER / Detection of Covered Substruc
tures in Multidimensional Parameter Space: An Application for
the DENIS Survey 223
I. VAUGLIN, G. PATUREL, M. C. MARTHINET and C. PETIT / The
DENIS-LEDA Connexion: a Running Pipeline 225
V. EXTRAGALACTIC
S.E. SCHNEIDER, J.P. HUCHRA, T.H. JARRETT and T. CHESTER
/ 2MASS Extragalactic Studies: Early Results from The Proto-
type Camera 231
G. A. MAMON, V. BANCHET, M. TRICOTTET and D. KATZ /
Preliminary Galaxy Extraction from DENIS Images 239
Z. FREI / Classification of Galaxies in the Optical Versus the Near
Infrared 249
J. H. KNAPEN, I. SHLOSMAN, R. J. RAND, J. E. BECKMAN, D.
NADEAU and R. DOYON / Circumnuclear Starbursts in Barred
Galaxies 253
M. FlOC and B. ROCCA~ VOLMERANGE / A New Model of Spectral
Evolution of Galaxies: PEGASE 257
M. W. KUMMEL and S. J. WAGNER / Broad-band Energy Distribu-
tion of Faint IRAS Galaxies 261
L. RAMIREZ-CASTRO, I. PEREZ-FOURNON, and F. CABRERA-
GUERRA / The Radio Properties of X-ray Selected AGNs 263

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
.Alvarez, Rodrigo GRAAL, Montpellier. France
[email protected]
Balazs, Lajos Gyorgy Konkoly Observatory. Hungary
[email protected]
Baraffe, Isabelle CRAL. France
[email protected]
Battaner, Eduardo Un iversidad de Granada. Spain
[email protected]
Berruyer, Nicole Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur. France
[email protected]
Bertin, Emmanuel Sterrewacht Leiden. The Netherlands
[email protected]
Borsenberger, Jean Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. France
[email protected]
Burton, W. B. Sterrewatcht Leiden. The Netherlands
burton@strw .leidenuniv .nl
Cabrera Guerra, Fernando lAC. Spain
[email protected]
Castander, Francisco Javier University of Chicago. USA
[email protected]
Centeno Moreira, Miguel University of Lisbon. Portugal
[email protected]
Cohen, Martin Radio Astronomy Laboratory. USA
cohen@bkyast. berk eley.ed u
Copet, Eric Observatoire de Paris, DESPA. France
[email protected]
Crifo, Francoise Observatoire de Paris-Meudon. France
[email protected]
Cutri, Roc M IPAC. USA
[email protected]
Chabrier, Gilles CRAL. France
[email protected]
Chan, Josephine S. lAC. Spain
[email protected]
Chester, Tom IPAC. USA
[email protected]
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