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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

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mapped the entire sky at mid-infrared wavelengths 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 microns. The mission was primarily designed to extract point sources, leaving resolved and extended sources unexplored. We…

Using data from the WISE All-Sky Survey, we have found >100 new infrared excess sources around main-sequence Hipparcos stars within 75pc. Our empirical calibration of WISE photospheric colors and removal of non-trivial false-positive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Rahul Patel , Stanimir Metchev , Aren Heinze , Joseph Trollo

The WMAP satellite has completed 3 years of observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The 3-year data products include several sets of full sky maps of the Stokes I, Q and U parameters in 5 frequency bands, spanning 23 to…

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

In order to study transient phenomena in the Universe, existing and forthcoming imaging surveys are covering wide areas of sky repeatedly over time, with a range of cadences, point spread functions, and depths. We describe here a framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 D. L. Shupe , F. J. Masci , R. Chary , G. Helou , A. L. Faisst , R. M. Cutri , T. Y. Brooke , J. A. Surace , K. A. Marsh

A recent cross-correlation between the SDSS DR7 White Dwarf Catalog with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer ($WISE$) all-sky photometry at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 microns performed by Debes et al. (2011) resulted in the discovery of 52…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Sara D. Barber , Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , A. Gianninas

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has been reactivated as NEOWISE-R to characterize and search for Near Earth Objects. The brown dwarf WISE J085510.83-071442.5 has now been reobserved by NEOWISE-R, and we confirm the…

With the launch of the {\em Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} ({\em WISE}), a new era of detecting planetary debris and brown dwarfs around white dwarfs (WDs) has begun with the {\em WISE} InfraRed Excesses around Degenerates (WIRED)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. H. Debes , D. W. Hoard , S. Wachter , D. T. Leisawitz , M. Cohen

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NEOWISE missions are a key source of thermal data for near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). These missions, which utilized a space-based platform in Earth orbit, produced thermal images across four…

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 describe the goals, design, implementation, and initial progress of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS), a seven year sky survey which began in May 2005, using the UKIRT Wide Field Camera. It is a portfolio of five survey…

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 measured the cross-correlation of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 7 year temperature map and the full sky data release of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) galaxy map. Using careful mapmaking and masking…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 András Kovács , István Szapudi , Benjamin R. Granett , Zsolt Frei

We show that mid-infrared data from the all-sky WISE survey can be used as a robust photometric redshift indicator for powerful radio AGN, in the absence of other spectroscopic or multi-band photometric information. Our work is motivated by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 M. Glowacki , J. R. Allison , E. M. Sadler , V. A. Moss , T. H. Jarrett

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

Integral field spectroscopy allows for spectral mapping of extended sources in a time efficient manner. An integral field unit (IFU) in the ultraviolet on Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) could be used to quickly map extended objects like…

In an earlier study we reported nearly 100 previously unknown dusty debris disks around Hipparcos main sequence stars within 75 pc by selecting stars with excesses in individual WISE colors. Here, we further scrutinize the Hipparcos 75 pc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Rahul I. Patel , Stanimir Metchev , Aren Heinze , Joseph Trollo

The Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMR) instrument aboard the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) has mapped the full microwave sky to mean sensitivity 26 uK per 7 deg field of view. The absolute calibration is determined to 0.7% with…