II. User's Guide to the 2MASS All-Sky Data Release
6. Ancillary Files
g. PSC and XSC Anomaly Files
Table 6 - Spurious Sources in the 2MASS All Sky Release PSC
/ 2MASS PSC Anomaly List - Spurious Sources / Entries that have been visually confirmed to be false extractions / / Last Updated - 3 November 2002 | pts_key | ra | dec | designation | description | | int | double | double | char | char | 323829159 4.476740 12.776640 00175441+1246359 Halo of bright star 753820898 22.716885 21.803043 01305205+2148109 Probably cosmic ray plus noise 223763182 157.180823 -8.689588 10284339-0841225 Meteor streak 883472259 210.122984 4.914377 14002951+0454517 Meteor streak 1015096731 253.895678 59.999634 16553496+5959586 Meteor streak
Table 7 Contaminated Sources in the 2MASS All Sky Release PSC
/ 2MASS PSC Anomaly List - Contaminated Sources / Entries that have been visually confirmed to be detections of real sources, / but whose photometry and/or astrometry is likely to be contaminated / / Last Updated - 3 November 2002 | pts_key | ra | dec | designation | description | | int | double | double | char | char | 1249447043 181.218034 -14.289430 12045232-1417219 Anomalously bright Ks-magnitude due to cosmic ray hit 129631428 207.518838 -29.457777 13500452-2927279 Anomalous H and Ks magnitudes, very large chi-squared values 319813469 234.370222 -0.884827 15372885-0053053 SA107-35, bright star with meteor trail superposed 980113191 236.015445 2.520043 15440370+0231121 Anomalous J-magnitude, in wing of bright star 1017168084 242.177978 8.590819 16084271+0835269 Anomalously faint J-magnitude, in wing of bright star 1037965372 265.406026 59.662052 17413744+5939433 Anomalously bright Ks magnitude due to cosmic ray? 1260394119 335.073974 12.627142 22201775+1237377 Anomalously faint J-magnitude, in wing of bright star
[Last Updated: 2005 October 13, by R. Cutri]
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