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A precise measure of the mid-infrared interstellar extinction law is crucial to the investigation of the properties of interstellar dust, especially of the grains in the large size end. Based on the stellar parameters derived from the…

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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

In this work we present source-tailored WISE mid-infrared photometry (at 3.4$\mu$m, 4.6$\mu$m, 12$\mu$m, and 23$\mu$m) of 2812 galaxies in the extended Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S$^4$G) sample, and characterise the…

We present a multiwavelength spectroscopic survey of 23 luminous mid-infrared-selected Type-2 quasars at redshifts z = 0.88 to 3.49. The targets were selected in the SDSS Stripe 82 field based on their bright WISE W4 detections (flux > 5…

The optical time-domain astronomy has grown rapidly in the past decade but the dynamic infrared sky is rarely explored. Aiming to construct a sample of mid-infrared outburst in nearby galaxies (MIRONG), we have conducted a systematical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Ning Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Liming Dou , Xinwen Shu , Xueyang Hu , Hui Liu , Yibo Wang , Lin Yan , Zhenfeng Sheng , Chenwei Yang , Luming Sun , Hongyan Zhou

The physics and demographics of type 2 quasars remain poorly understood, and new samples of such objects selected in a variety of ways can give insight into their physical properties, evolution, and relationship to their host galaxies. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-17 Sihan Yuan , Michael A. Strauss , Nadia L. Zakamska

The WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel Survey (WISP) uses the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) infrared grism capabilities to obtain slitless spectra of thousands of galaxies over a wide redshift range including the peak of star formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. Atek , B. Siana , C. Scarlata , M. Malkan , P. McCarthy , H. Teplitz , A. Henry , J. Colbert , C. Bridge , A. J. Bunker , A. Dressler , R. Fosbury , N. P. Hathi , C. Martin , N. R. Ross , H. Shim

We investigate extremely luminous dusty galaxies in the environments around WISE-selected hot dust obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs) and WISE/radio-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at average redshifts of z = 2.7 and z = 1.7, respectively.…

With the goal of investigating the degree to which theMIR luminosity in theWidefield Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) traces the SFR, we analyze 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 {\mu}m data in a sample of {\guillemotright} 140,000 star-forming galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Fei Shi , Xu Kong , James Wicker , Yang Chen , Zi-Qiang , Gong , Dong-Xin , Fan

We present a model of starlight emission in the Diffuse Infrared Background Explorer (DIRBE) data between 1.25 and 25$\,\mu$m based on \textit{Gaia} and WISE measurements. We include two classes of compact objects, namely bright stars with…

We report the detection of H$_2$O maser emission in 4 out of 77 (5.2%) mid-IR red galaxies that meet the color criteria of $W1-W2 > 0.5$ and $W1-W4 > 7$ and are classified as Type-2 AGNs based on optical, near-IR, and mid-IR spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-26 C. Y. Kuo , C. Y. Tai , A. Constantin , J. A. Braatz , H. H. Chung , B. Y. Chen , D. W. Pesce , C. M. V. Impellizzeri , F. Gao , Y. Y. Chang

Nearly one-third of the gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi are still unidentified, despite significant recent progress in this effort. On the other hand, all the gamma-ray extragalactic sources associated in the second Fermi-LAT catalog…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , N. Masetti , M. Giroletti , G. Tosti , Howard A. Smith , S. Funk

We present the discovery of a prominent bifurcation between early-type galaxies and late-type galaxies, in [4.6]-[12] micron colors from the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). We then use an emission-line diagnostic comparison…

Most radio galaxies are hosted by giant gas-poor ellipticals, but some contain significant amounts of dust, which is likely to be of external origin. In order to characterize the mid-IR properties of two of the most nearby and brightest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-06 B. Duah Asabere , C. Horellou , T. Jarrett , H. Winkler

An empirical forward-modeling framework is developed to interpret the multiwavelength properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and provide insights into the overlap and incompleteness of samples selected at different parts of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Antonis Georgakakis , Angel Ruiz , Stephanie M. LaMassa

We search for galaxy-scale (Dysonian) waste heat in the mid-infrared using WISE. Starting from the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS), we cross-match to CatWISE2020 and AllWISE, apply standard MIR AGN/starburst vetoes (Stern, Assef R90, Jarrett),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-07 Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang

We describe our custom processing of the entire Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) 12 micron imaging data set, and present a high-resolution, full-sky map of diffuse Galactic dust emission that is free of compact sources and other…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Aaron Meisner , Douglas Finkbeiner

We investigate the mid-infrared properties of the largest (42 objects) sample of radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (RL NLS1) collected to date, using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). We analyse the mid-IR colours of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-28 A. Caccianiga , S. Anton , L. Ballo , L. Foschini , T. Maccacaro , R. Della Ceca , P. Severgnini , M. J. Marcha , S. Mateos , E. Sani

(Abridged) We present an unbiassed near-IR selected AGN sample, covering 12.56 square degrees down to K ~ 15.5, selected from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). Our only selection effect is a moderate color cut (J-K>1.2) designed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul J Francis , Brant O. Nelson , Roc M. Cutri

Despite the large number of discoveries made recently by Fermi, the origins of the so called unidentified gamma-ray sources remain unknown. The large number of these sources suggests that among them there could be a population that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , G. Tosti , M. Ajello , D. Gasparrini , J. E. Grindlay , Howard A. Smith
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