The All-Sky Extragalactic X-Ray Foreground

The Two Micron All-Sky Survey: Removing the Infrared Foreground

We introduce the properties of the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) survey for IAU Symposium 204. 2MASS is a near-infrared survey of the entire sky characterized by high reliability and completeness. Catalogs and images for 47% of the sky are now available online. This data release has been used by Wright (2000) and Cambrésy et al. (2000) to subtract the stellar foreground at 1.25 and 2.2 micr...

An All - sky Advanced X - ray Monitor ( AXM ) Mission

A concept for an all-sky monitor mission substantially more powerful than the RXTE ASM is presented in brief. It makes use of 31 Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) proportional counters to provide continuous monitoring of the entire x-ray sky, except for earth occultations and a small region around the sun. This coverage would allow the study of a wide variety of short duration cosmic outbursts. At ...

An all - sky optical catalogue of radio / X - ray sources ,

We present an all-sky catalogue that aligns and overlays the ROSAT HRI, RASS, PSPC and WGA X-ray catalogues and the NVSS, FIRST and SUMSS radio catalogues onto the optical APM and USNO-A catalogues. Objects presented are those APM/USNO-A optical objects which are calculated with ≥40% confidence to be associated with radio/X-ray detections, or which are identified as known QSOs, AGN or BL Lacs, ...

An all-sky optical catalogue of radio / X-ray sources

We present an all-sky catalogue that aligns and overlays the ROSAT HRI, RASS, PSPC and WGA X-ray catalogues and the NVSS, FIRST and SUMSS radio catalogues onto the optical APM and USNO-A catalogues. Objects presented are those APM/USNO-A optical objects which are calculated with ≥ 40% confidence to be associated with radio/X-ray detections, or which are identified as known QSOs, AGN or BL Lacs,...

Scientific Productivity with X-ray All-Sky Monitors