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We present VIRAC version 1, a near-infrared proper motion and parallax catalogue of the VISTA VVV survey for 312,587,642 unique sources averaged across all overlapping pawprint and tile images covering 560 deg$^2$ of the bulge of the Milky…

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

Results of the first two month of observations using the All Sky Automated Survey prototype camera are presented. More than 45 000 stars in 24 Selected Fields covering 140 sq. degrees were monitored a few times a night resulting in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski

In a continuation of our systematic search for high proper motion stars in the Digitized Sky Survey, we have completed the analysis of northern sky fields at galactic latitudes above 25 degrees. With the help of our SUPERBLINK software, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sebastien Lepine , Michael M. Shara , R. Michael Rich

The LSPM-north catalog is a comprehensive list of 61,977 stars north of the J2000 celestial equator that have proper motions larger than 0.15 seconds of arc per year (local-background-stars frame). The catalog has been generated primarily…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Sebastien Lepine , Michael M. Shara

We present the results of a search of infrared excess candidates in a comprehensive (29\,000 stars) magnitude limited sample of dwarf stars, spanning the spectral range F2-K0, and brighter than V$=$15 mag. We searched the sample within the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fernando Cruz-Saenz de Miera , Miguel Chavez , Emanuele Bertone , Olga Vega

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

We present the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS), a search for galaxy clusters at 0.7<z<1.5 based upon data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. MaDCoWS is the first cluster survey capable of…

In this work, we assess the combined use of Gaia photometry and astrometry with infrared data from CatWISE in improving the identification of extragalactic sources compared to the classification obtained using Gaia data. We evaluate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Arvind C. N. Hughes , Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones , Sara Jamal

We present an analysis on the potential prevalence of mid infrared excesses in stars with and without planetary companions. Based on an extended database of stars detected with the ${\it WISE}$ satellite, we studied two stellar samples: one…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Raul F. Maldonado , Miguel Chavez , Emanuele Bertone , Fernando Cruz-Saenz de Miera

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) imaged the sky in two Ultraviolet (UV) bands, far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV), delivering the first comprehensive sky surveys at these wavelengths. The GALEX database contains FUV and NUV images,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Luciana Bianchi , Bernard Shiao , David Thilker

Results of the first two years of observations using the All Sky Automated Survey prototype camera are presented. More than 140 000 stars in 50 Selected Fields covering 300 sq. degrees were monitored each clear night in the I-band resulting…

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Using data from the all-sky Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite, we made a catalog of over 8000 Galactic HII regions and HII region candidates by searching for their characteristic mid-infrared (MIR) morphology. WISE has…

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The SIRTF Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) survey is a "Legacy Program" using 851 hours of SIRTF observing time to conduct a set of large-area (67 sq. deg. split into 7 fields) high Galactic latitude imaging surveys, achieving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alberto Franceschini , Carol Lonsdale , the SWIRE Co-Investigator Team

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) reactivation mission has completed its third year of surveying the sky in the thermal infrared for near-Earth asteroids and comets. NEOWISE collects simultaneous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Joseph R. Masiero , C. Nugent , A. K. Mainzer , E. L. Wright , J. M. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. Kramer , S. Sonnett

We present a catalog covering 1.62 deg^2 of the COSMOS/UltraVISTA field with PSF-matched photometry in 30 photometric bands. The catalog covers the wavelength range 0.15um - 24um including the available GALEX, Subaru, CFHT, VISTA and…

The \textit{Swift} Deep Galactic Plane Survey is a \textit{Swift} Key Project consisting of 380 tiled pointings covering 40 deg$^{2}$ of the Galactic Plane between longitude $10$\,$<$\,$|l|$\,$<$\,$30$ deg and latitude $|b|$\,$<$\,$0.5$…

We present an all-sky catalog of absolute positions and estimates of correlated flux density of 21,942 compact radio sources determined from processing interferometric visibility data of virtually all very long baseline interferometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Leonid Petrov , Yuri Y. Kovalev

The Gaia DR3 has provided a large sample of more than 6.6 million quasar candidates with high completeness but low purity. Previous work on the CatNorth quasar candidate catalog has shown that including external multiband data and applying…