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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 Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission continues to detect, track, and characterize minor planets. We present diameters and albedos calculated from observations taken during the second year since the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 C. R. Nugent , A. Mainzer , J. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , E. A. Kramer , T. Grav , J. Masiero , S. Sonnett , E. L. Wright

We present WISE All-Sky mid-infrared (IR) survey detections of 55% (17/31) of the known QSOs at z>6 from a range of surveys: the SDSS, the CFHT-LS, FIRST, Spitzer and UKIDSS. The WISE catalog thus provides a substantial increase in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrew Blain , Robert Assef , Daniel Stern , Chao-Wei Tsai , Peter Eisenhardt , Carrie Bridge , Dominic Benford , Tom Jarrett , Roc Cutri , Sara Petty , Jingwen Wu , Ned Wright

We have determined astrometric positions for 15 WISE-discovered late-type brown dwarfs (6 T8-9 and 9 Y dwarfs) using the Keck II telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Hubble Space Telescope. Combining data from 8 to 20 epochs we…

With the NEOWISE portion of the \emph{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} (WISE) project, we have carried out a highly uniform survey of the near-Earth object (NEO) population at thermal infrared wavelengths ranging from 3 to 22 $\mu$m,…

The \emph{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} has surveyed the entire sky at four infrared wavelengths with greatly improved sensitivity and spatial resolution compared to its predecessors, the \emph{Infrared Astronomical Satellite} and…

CatWISE is a program to catalog sources selected from combined ${\it WISE}$ and ${\it NEOWISE}$ all-sky survey data at 3.4 and 4.6 $\mu$m (W1 and W2). The CatWISE Preliminary Catalog consists of 900,849,014 sources measured in data…

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has completed its all-sky survey at 3.4-22 micron. We merge the WISE data with optical SDSS data and provide a phenomenological characterization of mid-IR, extragalactic sources. WISE is most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lin Yan , E. Donoso , C. -W. Tsai , D. Stern , R. J. Assef , P. Eisenhardt , A. W. Blain , R. Cutri , T. Jarrett , S. A. Stanford , E. Wright , C. Bridge , D. A. Riechers

We present diameters and albedos computed for the near-Earth and Main Belt asteroids observed by the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft during the sixth and seventh years of its Reactivation mission.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 Joseph R. Masiero , A. K. Mainzer , J. M. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. Kramer , J. Pittichová , E. L. Wright

We have uniformly reprocessed ~140 terabytes of WISE and NEOWISE exposures to create the deepest ever full-sky maps at 3.4 microns (W1) and 4.6 microns (W2). Our coadds include ~4 years of observations and therefore feature ~4 times greater…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-12 A. M. Meisner , D. Lang , D. J. Schlegel

This paper uses the multi-epoch astrometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to demonstrate a method to measure proper motions and trigonometric parallaxes with precisions of $\sim$4 mas yr$^{-1}$ and $\sim$7 mas,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Christopher A. Theissen

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has been conducting a two-band thermal infrared survey to detect and characterize asteroids and comets since its reactivation in Dec 2013. Using the observations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-20 Joseph R. Masiero , A. K. Mainzer , J. M. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. Kramer , J. Pittichová , S. Sonnett , E. L. Wright

Thirty years after the discovery of brown dwarfs, the search for these objects continues, particularly in the vicinity of the Sun. Objects near the Sun are characterized by large proper motions, making them seen as fast-moving objects.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Sergey Karpov , Oleg Malkov , Aleksandra Avdeeva

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a powerful tool for finding nearby brown dwarfs and searching for new planets in the outer solar system, especially with the incorporation of NEOWISE and NEOWISE-Reactivation data. So far,…

Automated asteroid detection routines set requirements on the number of detections, signal-to-noise ratio, and the linearity of the expected motion in order to balance completeness, reliability, and time delay after data acquisition when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Joseph R. Masiero , E. Redwing , A. K. Mainzer , J. M. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. Kramer , C. R. Nugent , S. Sonnett , E. L. Wright

The 163 comets observed during the WISE/NEOWISE prime mission represent the largest infrared survey to date of comets, providing constraints on dust, nucleus sizes, and CO+CO2 production. We present detailed analyses of the WISE/NEOWISE…

A distant, as yet unseen ninth planet has been invoked to explain various observations of the outer solar system. While such a 'Planet Nine', if it exists, is most likely to be discovered via reflected light in the optical, it may emit much…

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

We analyzed 82,548 carefully curated observations of 4420 asteroids with Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) four-band data to produce estimates of diameters and infrared emissivities. We also used these diameter values in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Nathan Myhrvold , Pavlo Pinchuk , Jean-Luc Margot

We present preliminary diameters and albedos for 13511 MBAs that were observed during the 3-Band Cryo phase of the WISE survey (after the outer cryogen tank was exhausted) and as part of the NEOWISE Post-Cryo Survey (after the inner cryogen…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joseph R. Masiero , A. K. Mainzer , T. Grav , J. M. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , C. Nugent , M. S. Cabrera