Science with Astronomical Near-Infrared Sky Surveys

Proceedings of the Les Houches School, Centre de Physique des Houches, Les Houches, France, 20-24 September, 1993

By: N. Epchtein (Editor), A. Omont (Editor), W.B. Burton (Editor)

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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.

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Infrared and Other Sky Surveys
DENIS: A Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky	p. 3
The Two Micron All Sky Survey. Survey Rationale and Initial Testing	p. 11
The Influence of Crowding on DENIS Point Source Detection Rates	p. 19
Strategy of DENIS Observations	p. 23
First Results Obtained with DENIS	p. 25
Sloan Digital Sky Survey	p. 27
The Guide Star Catalog and Related Sky Surveys	p. 31
Infrared Space Borne Experiments to Study Galactic Structure	p. 35
The Project "SPICE". Spectro-Photometric Infrared Celestial Explorer	p. 41
EDISON - The International Infrared Space Observatory. The Next Generation	p. 45
Classification of Astronomical Images with a Neural Network	p. 49
The Project of High Spatial Resolution near Infrared Imaging System at Beijing Observatory	p. 53
Low Mass Stars and Main Sequence Stars
DENIS, 2MASS and VLM Stars	p. 57
Low Mass Stars	p. 63
The Search for Brown Dwarfs with Infrared Surveys	p. 69
HIPPARCOS and Red Dwarf Populations	p. 77
Sternberg WBVR Photometric Survey of Bright Stars	p. 83
Spectrophotometric Catalog of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute in the Ultraviolet, Visual and Near Infrared	p. 87
Search for New Nearby Stars with DENIS	p. 91
Artificial IJK Two-Colour Diagrams for Field Stars	p. 95
Asteroid Detection with DENIS	p. 97
Late Type Stars
Short Period Miras and Galactic Structure	p. 101
Infrared Photometry of AGB Stars	p. 105
Infrared Surveys and Variables on the AGB	p. 117
AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds	p. 121
AGB Stars and Red Supergiants in the LMC as Seen with DENIS	p. 131
O-Rich SR and Mira Variables in DENIS	p. 137
Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Classify IRAS LRS Spectra of Evolved Stars	p. 139
Carbon Stars in Infrared Surveys	p. 141
The Evolution from Visible to Infrared Variable AGB Stars. What Can DENIS Contribute to This Study?	p. 143
Infrared Colours of Selected Long Period Variables	p. 145
The Frequency of Circumstellar Envelopes among TMSS Stars	p. 149
Infrared Velocities of Carbon Stars	p. 151
A Near-Infrared Survey of IRAS Sources in the South Galactic Cap	p. 153
Mira Light Curves and Mass Loss	p. 155
Strategy of Infrared Surveys for Studying Galactic Evolved Stars and their Subclasses. Contribution to the Panel Discussion	p. 159
Galactic Structure
Synthesis of Galactic Stellar Populations and Expected Constraints from Infrared Surveys	p. 163
Infrared Surveys: Some Prospects for Galactic Structure Studies Using Cepheids and Other Young Objects	p. 169
Galactic Structure from the Two Micron Galactic Survey	p. 177
A Powerful New Model for the Point Source Sky	p. 181
The Leiden/Dwingeloo Survey of Emission from Galactic HI	p. 189
Are Molecular Clouds Formed by Impact of High-Velocity Clouds?	p. 195
Star Formation
Current Problems in Star Formation and Infrared Surveys	p. 201
Star Formation in Taurus. Preliminary Results from 2MASS	p. 207
Search for Young Stars with IR Surveys: Regions of Massive Star Formation	p. 217
The Stellar Populations within the [rho] Oph Cloud Cores	p. 223
Investigation of the Be Star Phenomenon Using the DENIS Data	p. 225
Discussion Session on Star Formation, Molecular Clouds and the Interstellar Medium	p. 227
Extragalactic Structure
Near-Infrared Observations of AGN	p. 233
Groups and Clusters in the Near-Infrared	p. 237
Comparison of Large-Scale Structures and Velocities in the Local Universe	p. 243
Red Post-Starburst Galaxies	p. 261
DENIS for the Extragalactic Distance Scale. Panel Discussion on Infrared Observations of Galaxies	p. 265
LEDA. The Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database for the DENIS Project	p. 267
Star Formation in Starburst Galaxies from Near-IR Spectroscopy and Evolutionary Population Synthesis	p. 271
Modelling Evolution of Stellar Emission of Galaxies for the NIR Surveys	p. 273
The Nature of the Blue Distant Galaxies	p. 279
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Science with Astronomical Near-Infrared Sky Surveys

Proceedings of the Les Houches School, Centre de Physique des Houches, Les Houches, France, 20-24 September, 1993

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