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We have compiled the first all-sky mid-infrared variable-star catalog based on Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) five-year survey data. Requiring more than 100 detections for a given object, 50,282 carefully and robustly selected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs , Ming Yang

We describe a methodology to classify periodic variable stars identified using photometric time-series measurements constructed from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) full-mission single-exposure Source Databases. This will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Frank J. Masci , Douglas I. Hoffman , Carl J. Grillmair , Roc M. Cutri

Context: In 6 years of operation, INTEGRAL/ISGRI revealed more than 500 sources. Many of these sources are variable. Taking into account that nearly half of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources are new and many of them are still unidentified, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 I. Telezhinsky , D. Eckert , V. Savchenko , A. Neronov , N. Produit , T. J. -L. Courvoisier

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Explorer (NEOWISE) mission provides a decade of all-sky time-series data at 3.4 and 4.6um and an unprecedented opportunity for the discovery and characterization of variable objects. This paper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Matthew Paz , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Rajiv Uttamchandani , Troy Raen , Roc M. Cutri

Variable sources probe a wide range of astrophysical phenomena. We present a catalog of over ten million variable source candidates found in Data Release 1 (DR1) of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). We perform a periodicity search up to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Eran O. Ofek , Maayane Soumagnac , Guy Nir , Avishay Gal-Yam , Peter Nugent , Frank Masci , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

We present a catalog of radio-loud candidate gamma-ray emitting blazars with WISE mid-infrared colors similar to the colors of confirmed gamma-ray blazars. The catalog is assembled from WISE sources detected in all four WISE filters, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 R. D'Abrusco , F. Massaro , A. Paggi , H. A. Smith , N. Masetti , M. Landoni , G. Tosti

Robust fast methods to classify variable light curves in large sky surveys are becoming increasingly important. While it is relatively straightforward to identify common periodic stars and particular transient events (supernovae, novae,…

We report the first results of a study of variable point sources identified using multi-color time-series photometry from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 over a span of nearly 10 years (1998-2007). We construct a light-curve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Waqas A. Bhatti , Michael W. Richmond , Holland C. Ford , Larry D. Petro

The time-series component of WISE is a valuable resource for the study of variable objects. We present an analysis of an all-sky sample of ~450,000 AllWISE+NEOWISE infrared light curves of likely variables identified in AllWISE. By…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 Evan Petrosky , Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Nadia L. Zakamska , Vedant Chandra , Matthew J. Hill

The WISE and NEOWISE missions have provided the only mid-infrared all-sky time-domain data, opening a unique observational window for variability studies. Yet, a comprehensive and systematic catalog of mid-infrared variable sources has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Zihan kang , Jingyi Zhang , Yanxia Zhang , Changhua Li , Xiao Kong , Minzhi Kong , Jinghang Shi , Shirui Wei , Xue-Bing Wu

We report on the results of an optical spectroscopic survey at high Galactic latitude (b\geq30{\deg}) of a sample of WISE-selected targets, grouped by WISE W1 ({\lambda}_eff = 3.4 \mum) flux, which we use to characterize the sources WISE…

Over the last decade more than five thousand gamma-ray sources were detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Given the positional uncertainty of the telescope, nearly 30% of these sources remain…

We present photometry of images from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE; Wright et al. 2010) of over 400 million sources detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York et al. 2000). We use a "forced photometry" technique,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Dustin Lang , David W. Hogg , David J. Schlegel

Thanks to the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey it is now possible to explore a large number of objects in those regions. This paper addresses the variability analysis of all VVV point sources having more than 10…

Blazars are a highly-variable, radio-loud subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN). In order to better understand such objects we must be able to easily identify candidate blazars from the growing population of unidentified sources. Working…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Philip S. Cowperthwaite , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , G. Tosti , Howard A. Smith

We present the unWISE Catalog, containing the positions and fluxes of roughly two billion objects observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) over the full sky. The unWISE Catalog has two advantages over the existing WISE…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Edward F. Schlafly , Aaron M. Meisner , Gregory M. Green

We searched for gamma-ray blazar candidates among the 382 unidentified hard X-ray sources of the 3rd Palermo BAT Catalog (3PBC) obtained from the analysis of 66 months of SWIFT-BAT survey data and listing 1586 sources. We adopted a recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Maselli , F. Massaro , G. Cusumano , R. D'Abrusco , V. La Parola , A. Paggi , A. Segreto , Howard A. Smith , G. Tosti

We present a systematic study of gamma-ray blazar candidates based on a sample of 40 objects taken from the WIBR catalogue. By using a likelihood analysis, 26 of the 40 sources showed significant gamma-ray signatures $\geq3\sigma$. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Blessing Musiimenta , Bruno Sversut Arsioli , Edward Jurua , Tom Mutabazi

Time-varying phenomena are one of the most substantial sources of astrophysical information and their study has led to many fundamental discoveries in modern astronomy. We have developed an automated tool to search and analyze variable…

Gaia is undertaking a deep synoptic survey of the Galaxy, but photometry from individual epochs has, as of yet, only been released for a minimal number of sources. We show that it is possible to identify variable stars in Gaia Data Release…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Shion Andrew , Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader
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