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

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Infrared Surveys: The Impact on Modern Astronomy....Pages 3-13
The Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey (DENIS)....Pages 15-24
The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS): Overview and Status....Pages 25-32
The Denis Operations....Pages 33-36
The Guide Star Catalog and the Digitized Sky Survey as Resources for other Surveys....Pages 37-44
The ISO Serendipity Survey....Pages 45-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Galactic Warps....Pages 49-56
Studying Galactic Structure and Evolution with Galaxy Models....Pages 57-61
Large-Scale Near-Infrared Counts and Galactic Structure....Pages 63-66
Interpreting Surveys with Models....Pages 67-70
Galactic Plane Investigation from Denis Observations....Pages 71-75
The Galactic Central Regions at 3.6 µM ....Pages 77-80
The 15 -µ M Isogal Survey of the Inner Galactic Disc....Pages 81-89
Stellar Population Synthesis....Pages 91-94
Modelling the Distribution of Red Variables in the Multicolor ( I, J, K , 12 µ M) Parameter Space....Pages 95-99
Infrared Appearance of Time-Dependent Models of Dust—Enshrouded Carbon-Mira Atmospheres....Pages 101-102
First Results of a Near-Infrared Monitoring Programme of OH/IR Stars....Pages 103-104
The Database of Galactic Planetary Nebulae at Innsbruck....Pages 105-106
A Method for Correcting Star Counts in Moderately Overcrowded Fields....Pages 107-109
A Model for the Emission of the Stellar Warp in the Near Infrared and Its Comparison with the Stellar Warp....Pages 111-112
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
A Large Deep K’ -Band Galaxy Survey....Pages 113-116
1.6 µ M Classification of Bright Sources Discovered during 2MASS Prototyping....Pages 117-118
A Large-Scale 13 CO Distribution of the Galaxy....Pages 119-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
A DENIS Survey of Orion Molecular Clouds....Pages 129-134
Large Scale Distribution of T Tauri Stars as Observed with the ROSAT X-ray Survey....Pages 135-142
X-ray/IR Observations of Molecular Cloud Cores....Pages 143-148
Prospects of Brown Dwarf Detection by Near-Infrared Surveys (DENIS, 2MASS)....Pages 149-156
Search for Evolved Objects and Young Stellar Objects from the Denis Database....Pages 157-159
The Search for Star Formation Regions....Pages 161-164
From IJK to M BOL in AGB Stars....Pages 165-168
Star Formation in the Vela Molecular Clouds: H 2 Imaging Survey....Pages 169-170
Near-IR Characterization of AGB Sources....Pages 171-172
The Multispectral Study of Galactic Plane Star-Forming Regions (Southern Hemisphere)....Pages 173-174
Clustering around Herbig AE/BE Stars....Pages 175-176
Young Stellar Objects in L1641: A Submillimeter Continuum Study....Pages 177-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Denis Data Processing at PDAC....Pages 181-186
The 2MASS Point Source Processing Pipeline: Design and Prototype Results....Pages 187-195
The Optical Identification of Denis Sources....Pages 197-199
Photometric Calibration of Denis....Pages 201-204
The ISO Calibration Programme....Pages 205-211
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
The Effect of Stellar Contamination on Different Measures of Galaxy Photometry....Pages 213-220
Self Organizing Maps and Imaging Surveys....Pages 221-222
Detection of Covered Substructures in Multidimensional Parameter Space....Pages 223-224
The Denis-Leda Connexion: A Running Pipeline....Pages 225-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
2MASS Extragalactic Studies: Early Results from the Prototype Camera....Pages 231-238
Preliminary Galaxy Extraction from Denis Images....Pages 239-248
Classification of Galaxies in the Optical Versus the Near Infrared....Pages 249-252
Circumnuclear Starbursts in Barred Galaxies....Pages 253-256
A New Model of Spectral Evolution of Galaxies: Pegase....Pages 257-259
Broad-Band Energy Distribution of Faint IRAS Galaxies....Pages 261-262
The Radio Properties of X-Ray Selected AGNS....Pages 263-264