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We present a search for debris discs amongst M-dwarf members of nearby, young (5-150 Myr) moving groups (MGs) using infrared (IR) photometry, primarily from the Wide Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). A catalogue of 100 MG M-dwarfs that have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Alex S. Binks , Robin D. Jeffries

We present the unTimely Catalog, a deep time-domain catalog of detections based on Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE observations spanning the 2010 through 2020 time period. Detections are extracted from 'time-resolved…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 A. M. Meisner , D. Caselden , E. F. Schlafly , F. Kiwy

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a NASA MIDEX mission, will survey the entire sky in four bands from 3.3 to 23 microns with a sensitivity 1000 times greater than the IRAS survey. The WISE survey will extend the Two Micron All…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. K. Mainzer , P. Eisenhardt , E. L. Wright , F. Liu , W. Irace , I. Heinrichsen , R. Cutri , V. Duval

We report the results of a survey of M31 novae in quiescence. This is the first catalog of extragalactic systems in quiescence to be published, and contains data for 38 spectroscopically confirmed novae from 2006 to 2012. We used Liverpool…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. C. Williams , M. J. Darnley , M. F. Bode , A. Keen , A. W. Shafter

The WIde-field Nearby Galaxy clusters Survey (WINGS) is a project whose primary goal is to study the galaxy populations in clusters in the local universe (z<0.07) and of the influence of environment on their stellar populations. This survey…

Core-collapse supernovae (CC SNe), especially those of type II-plateau (II-P), are thought to be important contributors to cosmic dust production. The most obvious indicator of the presence of newly-formed and/or pre-existing dust is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Szalai , J. Vinkó

Classical novae are expected to emit gamma rays during their explosions. The most important contribution to the early gamma-ray emission comes from the annihilation with electrons of the positrons generated by the decay of 13N and 18F. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Senziani , G. K. Skinner , P. Jean , M. Hernanz

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has scanned the entire sky with unprecedented sensitivity in four infrared bands, at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 micron. The WISE Point Source Catalog contains more than 560 million objects, among…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Robert Nikutta , Maia Nenkova , Zeljko Ivezic , Nicholas Hunt-Walker , Moshe Elitzur

The Disk Detective citizen science project aims to find new stars with 22 micron excess emission from circumstellar dust using data from NASA's WISE mission. Initial cuts on the AllWISE catalog provide an input catalog of 277,686 sources.…

An optical imaging study of recent 30 novae has been undertaken using both ground-based and space-based observations. Resolved shells have been detected around 9 objects in the ground-based data, while another four objects have shells…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ronald A. Downes , Hilmar W. Duerbeck

A method is defined for identifying late T and Y dwarfs in WISE down to low values of signal-to-noise. This requires a WISE detection only in the W2-band and uses the statistical properties of the WISE multi-frame measurements and profile…

As part of a larger search of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data for cool brown dwarfs with effective temperatures less than 1000 K, we present the discovery of three new cool brown dwarfs with spectral types later than T7.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Michael C. Cushing , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Christopher R. Gelino , Gregory N. Mace , Michael F. Skrutskie , Andrew Gould

With the launch of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a new era of detecting planetary debris around white dwarfs has begun with the WISE InfraRed Excesses around Degenerates (WIRED) Survey. The WIRED Survey will be sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. H. Debes , D. W. Hoard , M. Kilic , S. Wachter , D. T. Leisawitz , M. Cohen , J. D. Kirkpatrick , R. L. Griffith

We describe a search for infra-red excess emission from dusty circumstellar material around 180,000 stars observed by the Kepler and WISE missions. This study is motivated by i) the potential to find bright warm disks around planet host…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-07 G. M. Kennedy , M. C. Wyatt

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

The WISE satellite surveyed the entire sky multiple times in four infrared (IR) wavelengths ($3.4,\ 4.6,\ 12,$ and $22\, \mu$m, Wright et al. 2010). This all-sky IR photometric survey makes it possible to leverage many of the large publicly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 S. E. Lake , E. L. Wright , R. J. Assef , T. H. Jarrett , S. Petty , S. A. Stanford , D. Stern , C. -W. Tsai

We present optical and infrared imaging and optical spectroscopy of galaxy clusters which were identified as part of an all-sky search for high-redshift galaxy clusters, the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS). The initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. A. Stanford , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Mark Brodwin , Daniel P. Gettings , Peter R. M. Eisenhardt , Daniel Stern , Dominika Wylezalek

Photometry at 3.4 and 4.6 micron of 128 Population~I WC type Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galaxy and 12 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) observed in the WISE NEOWISE-R survey was searched for evidence of circumstellar dust emission and its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Peredur M Williams

A long-term (1995-2016) survey for novae in the nearby Andromeda galaxy (M31) was conducted as part of the Research-Based Science Education initiative. During the course of the survey 180 nights of observation were completed at Kitt Peak,…

Thermal infrared measurements of near-Earth objects provide critical data for constraining their physical properties such as size. The NEOWISE mission has been conducting an all-sky infrared survey to gather such data and improve our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Joseph R. Masiero , Patrice Smith , Lean D. Teodoro , A. K. Mainzer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. L. Wright