TooMassFun

TooMassFun is a collection of programs and scripts for processing and analyzing data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). The focus is on inferring visible colors and rendering images of the sky.

Disclaimer: The routines provided here are for exploratory purposes only and are not suitable for scientific work.

Dependencies

TooMassFun contains components written in Scala, C, C++, CUDA, and R. These components depend on the following libraries and build tools:

• sbt
• Make
• GSL (GNU Scientific Library)
• OpenCV

Components

TooMassFun consists of the following utilities:

• PscConvert (Scala): Parse 2MASS Point Source Catalog (PSC) data files and provide input to mags2temp
• mags2temp (C): Perform a black-body fit on J,H,Ks magnitudes to estimate color and brightness
• SkyRender (C++, CUDA): Render images of the night sky using output of mags2temp