• Access individual spectra. [Coming soon]
    • all-sky map of 2MRS

    2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS)

    Huchra et al. (2012), ApJS

    The Paper
    (ApJS, 2012)
  • Download the paper as a PDF file. br>

    • The Catalog
    (44,599 galaxies)
  • Download the 2MRS catalog as a gzipped tar archive (40 MB).
  • View the 2MRS README file.
  • See the CfA Press Release.

    • FAST Spectra
    (for 11,600 northern galaxies)

    		 Download 523MB compressed tar file
    FITS spectra in directories structured by year and date from 2MRS/

    The Spectra
    (for 13,884 galaxies)

    Graphics by Tom Jarrett (IPAC/SSC)

    All-Sky Map

    		 Display 2MRS coverage on an Aitoff-Hammer all-sky projection

    "Onion" slices

    		 These all-sky "onion" slices depict 2MRS cz velocity distribution:
    [0.00 < z < 0.02] [0.02 < z < 0.04] [0.04 < z < 0.06] [0.06 < z < 0.08]

    Graphics by Karen Masters (Univ. Portsmouth)

    "Hockey Pucks"

    		 [ Northern Hemisphere looking down from the North Celestial Pole]
    [ Southern Hemisphere looking up from the South Celestial Pole]

    Updates
    16 Dec 2011 2MRS catalog v2.4 released; see change log for details.
    29 July 2011 2MRS catalog v2.3 released
    11 July 2011 2MRS catalog v2.2 released
    22 June 2011 2MRS catalog v2.1 released
    25 May 2011 2MRS plots released
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