note: this is my original outline, now somewhat dated, but the basic idea and structure is here. -tj

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

a. overview of 2mass project (what is it, numbers, scientific objectives)
b. Extended Sources; brief discussion of some of the science projects geared towards 2MASS galaxies & ext. srcs; introduce or reiterate level-1 specs
c. data release and overview of data covered in this paper
d. GIVE bullet summary (ala T.Chester)
e. outline objectives of paper and forecast future papers to come

review data products (relevant to galaxies) and define 2MASS data type (e.g., what is a scan/tile; what is a coadd; postage stamp, etc).

**briefly** introduce catalog parameters (this is so long and complex that an entire chapter needs to be devoted to this)

tabulate data set introduced in paper; discuss/outline "mini-release data and march'99 incremental release

might be a good point to flash some real data (one or two coadds and some postage stamps) for flavor

STAR-GALAXY DISCRIMINATION & ALGORITHMS

overview of work in the field, including those of the POSSI people (odewahn) and the POSSII people (weir); traditional X-Y "cart" methods, decisions trees and neural nets.

2mass source detection and types of things detected (stars, multiple stars, extra-galac pt srcs, galaxies, artifacts)

introduce & define our primary discriminents ("sh","wsh" & "r23"). Here we need to discuss stellar ridges and atmos-seeing in general.

briefly introduce other star-galaxy discriminators

introduce the use of oblique decision trees and how we employ them

summarize our completeness and reliability (later we will give further proof with galaxy counts) after applying simple "cart" thresholds (i.e., "sh" and "wsh") and OBDTs.

future direction (different DTs and auto-classifiers)

EXTENDED SOURCE CATALOG

the objective of this section is to discuss/introduce the detailed output of GALWORKS (mostly mags). a table might be sufficient with some additional descripts or notes. the table might look very similar to the one generated by the DB (or catscan ... whatever). we might also delve more deeply into some of the trickier parameters of GALWORKS (like ellipse fitting)

highlight some of the more "important" forms of photometry (i.e., impose our own personal bias on what mags people should be looking at): fixed circ r=7 and K-fid isophotal.

FIRST RESULTS

a. Galaxy Counts & Completeness (with reliability relevant to faintest bins); how do counts stack up with previous work and with pencil beam studies; can we help clarify the great debate: no evolution, modest evolution, copious evolution (the answer is: not likely, since the models only begin to diverge at our faintest mag bins)
b. Colors (& discuss reddening due to redshift)

DISCUSSION

given the results presented above, what projections can we make for the remaining survey (total number of gals, reliability, artifact rate, etc)

prospects of cross-matching with other cats (SDSS, POSSII)

large scale structure and introduction of the 2MASS cluster catalog (and any other projects now underway like the Schneider/Hucra KEY project)

SUMMARY