Session 33. The Big Picture: Latest Science Results from 2MASS

Topical Session Oral, Tuesday, June 5, 2001, 9:00am-12:30pm, 2:00-5:30pm, C101-104

33.01 The Two Micron All Sky Survey

M.F. Skrutskie (University of Massachusetts)

33.02 2MASS and the Solar System

M.V. Sykes (University of Arizona), R.M. Cutri, J.W. Fowler (California Institute of Technology), D.J. Tholen (University of Hawaii)

33.03 Probing Stellar Populations and Star Forming Regions with 2MASS:\\Techniques, Recent Results, and Future Directions

J. M. Carpenter (Caltech)

33.04 The IMF of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Taurus

K. Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

33.05 Interpreting the low-mass PMS stars in Cep OB3b

M. Pozzo (Astrophysics Group, Dept. of Physics, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, Blackett Lab., UK), R.D. Jeffries (Dept. of Physics, Keele University, UK), T. Naylor (School of Physics, University of Exeter, UK)

33.06 The Properties of the 2MASS Field L Dwarf Population

J.E. Gizis (IPAC/Caltech)

33.07 Finding L and T Dwarf Companions to Nearby Stars using 2MASS

J. D. Kirkpatrick, J. E. Gizis (IPAC/Caltech), J. C Wilson (Cornell U.), A. J. Burgasser (Caltech), 2MASS Rare Objects Team

33.08D Classifying 2MASS Late-M and L-dwarf Candidates in the NIR with CorMASS

J.C. Wilson (Cornell), M.F. Skrutskie (UMASS), J.E. Gizis, J.D. Kirkpatrick (IPAC), D.G. Monet (USNOFS), J.R. Houck (Cornell)

33.09 Uncovering the Galaxy with 2MASS

M. Weinberg (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

33.10 Near and Mid-Infrared Colors of Galactic Plane Objects: Comparing MSX and 2MASS

S.J. Carey (Boston College), M.P. Egan, S.D. Price (AFRL)

33.11 Infrared Properties of Cataclysmic Variables from 2MASS

D. W. Hoard, S. Wachter (CTIO), L. L. Clark (SDSU), T. Bowers (U. of Arizona)

33.12 Near IR Extinction Associated with Infrared Dark Clouds

R.F. Shipman (SRON), W. Frieswyk (RuG), S.J. Carey (Boston College)

33.13 Structure and History of the Magellanic Clouds

A.A. Cole (UMass)

33.14 2MASS Extragalactic Science

T.H. Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech)

33.15 Abell 262 and a Large Background Supercluster found in 2MASS

S. E. Schneider, M. F. Skrutskie, J. L. Rosenberg (UMass), J. P. Huchra (CfA), T.-H. Jarrett, T. Chester (IPAC), J. A. Eder (NAIC)

33.16 The 2MASS Sky at High Galactic Latitudes

G.R. Knapp, Z. Ivezic, K Finlator, R Lupton, M. Strauss, J. Gunn (Princeton U.), X. Fan (IAS), P. Hall (Princeton U. and PUC), R. Kim (JHU), K Menou, V. Narayanan (Princeton U.), J. Loveday (U. Sussex), C.M. Rockosi (U. of Chicago), D. Schlegel, I. Strateva (Princeton U.), B. Yanny (Fermilab)

33.17 The 2MASS Red AGN Survey

R.M. Cutri, B.O. Nelson, J.D. Kirkpatrick (IPAC/Caltech), J.P. Huchra (Harvard/Smithsonian), P.S. Smith (U.Arizona)