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This paper describes the design, expectations, and prototyping of a new all-sky survey, called 2MASS (Two Micron All Sky Survey) to be carried out with the new generation of infrared array detectors.
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Kleinmann, S.G. et al. (1994). The Two Micron All Sky Survey. In: McLean, I.S. (eds) Infrared Astronomy with Arrays. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 190. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1070-9_72
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