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Enhancements to the science data processing pipeline of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE) mission, collectively known as NEOWISE, resulted in the detection of $>$158,000 minor planets in four infrared wavelengths during the fully…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Mainzer , T. Grav , J. Masiero , J. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , R. S. McMillan , C. R. Nugent , D. Tholen , R. Walker , E. L. Wright

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

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 present the discovery of a very cold, very low mass, nearby brown dwarf using data from the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The object, WISE J064723.23-623235.5, has a very red WISE color of W1-W2 > 3.77 mag and a very…

The census of the solar neighborhood is almost complete for stars and becoming more complete in the brown dwarf regime. Spectroscopic, photometric and kinematic characterization of nearby objects helps us to understand the local mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 J. C. Beamín , V. D. Ivanov , D. Minniti , R. L. Smart , K. Muzic , R. A. Mendez , Y. Beletsky , A. Bayo , M. Gromadzki , R. Kurtev

We have used Minor Planet Center data and tools to explore the discovery circumstances and properties of the currently known population of over 10,000 NEAs, and to quantify the challenges for follow-up from ground-based telescopes. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. L. Galache , C. L. Beeson , K. K. McLeod , M. Elvis

We used photometric data from the WASP (Wide-Angle Search for Planets) survey to explore the possibility of detecting eclipses and transit signals of brown dwarfs, gas giants and terrestrial companions in close orbit around white dwarfs. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Faedi , R. G. West , M. R. Burleigh , M. R. Goad , L. Hebb

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

Because WISE J085510.83$-$071442.5 (hereafter WISE 0855-0714) is the coldest known brown dwarf ($\sim250$ K) and one of the Sun's closest neighbors (2.2 pc), it offers a unique opportunity for studying a planet-like atmosphere in an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Taran Esplin , Kevin Luhman , Michael Cushing , Kevin Hardegree-Ullman , Jessica Trucks , Adam Burgasser , Adam Schneider

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…

We present the first results from the COSINE (Cometary Object Study Investigating their Nature and Evolution) project, based on a uniformly processed dataset of 484 comets observed over the full 15-year duration of the WISE/NEOWISE mission.…

Archival data from the WISE satellite reveals infrared flux variations of tens of per cent around numerous dusty white dwarfs. Data spanning more than seven years reveal more than half of known systems are varying in the 3.4 micron band,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Andrew Swan , Jay Farihi , Thomas G. Wilson

We present two epochs of MPG/ESO 2.2m GROND simultaneous 6-band ($r'i'z'JHK$) photometric monitoring of the closest known L/T transition brown dwarf binary WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB. We report here the first resolved variability monitoring…

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, Wright et al. 2010) and its follow-up Near-Earth Object (NEO) mission (NEOWISE, Mainzer et al. 2011) scan the mid-infrared sky twice a year. The spatial and temporal coverage of the resulting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Bringfried Stecklum

Hyperactive comet activity typically becomes evident beyond the frost line (3 to 4 au) where it becomes too cold for water-ice to sublimate. If carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are the species that drive activity at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Dave G. Milewski , Joseph R. Masiero , Jana Pittichova , Emily A. Kramer , Amy K. Mainzer , James M. Bauer

The Next Generation Sky Survey (NGSS) is a proposed NASA MIDEX mission to map the entire sky in four infrared bandpasses - 3.5, 4.7, 12, and 23 um. The seven-month mission will use a 50-cm telescope and four-channel imager to survey the sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Davy Kirkpatrick

A number of White Dwarfs (WDs) in cataclysmic binaries have shown brightness variations consistent with non-radial oscillations as observed in isolated WDs. A few objects have been well-characterized with photometric campaigns in the hopes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Dean M. Townsley , Phil Arras , Lars Bildsten

The CatWISE2020 Catalog consists of 1,890,715,640 sources over the entire sky selected from WISE and NEOWISE survey data at 3.4 and 4.6 $\mu$m (W1 and W2) collected from 2010 Jan. 7 to 2018 Dec. 13. This dataset adds two years to that used…

We have performed extensive simulations to explore the possibility of detecting eclipses and transits of close, sub-stellar and planetary companions to white dwarfs in WASP light-curves. Our simulations cover companions $\sim0.3\Re<{\rm…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 F. Faedi , R. G. West , M. R. Burleigh , M. R. Goad , L. Hebb