PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM NEOWISE: AN ENHANCEMENT TO THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER FOR SOLAR SYSTEM SCIENCE

By A. Mainzer, J. Bauer, T. Grav, J. Masiero, R. Cutri, J. Dailey, P. Eisenhardt, Robert S. McMillan, E. L. Wright, R. Walker and 25 more. 2011

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The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has surveyed the entire sky at four infrared wavelengths with greatly improved sensitivity and spatial resolution compared to its predecessors, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite and the Cosmic Background Explorer. NASA's Planetary Science Division has funded an enhancement to the WISE data processing system called “NEOWISE” that allows detection and archiving of moving objects found in the WISE data. NEOWISE has mined the WISE images for a wide array of small bodies in our solar system, including near-Earth objects (NEOs), Main Belt asteroids, comets, Trojans, and Centaurs. By the end of survey operations in 2011 February, NEOWISE identified over 157,000 asteroids, including more than 500 NEOs and ∼120 comets. The NEOWISE data set will enable a panoply of new scientific investigations.

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MAIN BELT ASTEROIDS WITH WISE/NEOWISE. I. PRELIMINARY ALBEDOS AND DIAMETERS (2011, methodology): “The best fit linear relation between beaming and phase is η = 0.79 + 0.011α which is a much shallower relation than seen previously in Wolters & Green (2009), but consistent with Mainzer et al. (2011d) which included the near Earth objects with fitted beaming parameters as well.”
unWISE: UNBLURRED COADDS OF THE WISE IMAGING (2014, methodology): ““Three-band” observations using the remaining W1, W2, and W3 channels continued until 2010 September 29, and the “NEOWISE post-cryo” program (Mainzer et al. 2011) continued observations in the shortest W1 and W2 bands until 2011 February 1.”
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Twelfth data release (2016, methodology): “For this version of the quasar catalog, we matched the DR12Q to the newly released AllWISE Source Catalog9 (Wright et al. 2010; Mainzer et al. 2011) that has”
WISE PHOTOMETRY FOR 400 MILLION SDSS SOURCES (2014, background): “During the “NEOWISE post-cryo” continuation (Mainzer et al. 2011), it continued to scan another half-sky in W1 and W2.”
NEOWISE OBSERVATIONS OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS (2011, background): “…by observational biases, although the current lack of taxonomic classifications of most of the small NEOs observed by NEOWISE precludes a firm conclusion on this point (for a more extensive discussion of the links between size, albedo and taxonomic classifications, see also Mainzer et al. 2011d).”
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Fourteenth data release (2017, methodology): “We matched the DR14Q to the AllWISE Source Catalog4 (Wright et al. 2010; Mainzer et al. 2011).”
INITIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE NEOWISE REACTIVATION MISSION (2014, unknown): “If high-quality photometry at multiple infrared wavelengths centered near the peak of an asteroid’s thermal emission (typically ∼10 µm for ∼300 K NEOs) is available that adequately samples its rotational phase, effective spherical diameter can be determined to within ±10% (Mainzer et al. 2011c,d).”
Physical Properties of 15 Quasars at z ≳ 6.5 (2017, methodology): “ALLWISE Survey We consider the ALLWISE catalog3, resulting from the combination of the all-sky Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission (WISE mission; Wright et al. 2010) and the NEOWISE survey (Mainzer et al. 2011).”
THE HAWAII INFRARED PARALLAX PROGRAM. II. YOUNG ULTRACOOL FIELD DWARFS (2016, methodology): “All targets also have photometry in the AllWISE Source Catalog that merges the cryogenic WISE mission survey data (Wright et al. 2010) with the post-cryogenic NEOWISE survey (Mainzer et al. 2011).”
DISCOVERY OF A BINARY BROWN DWARF AT 2 pc FROM THE SUN (2013, background): “The satellite continued to observe in W1 and W2 until 2011 February 1 (Mainzer et al. 2011).”
The WISE AGN Catalog (2017, unknown): “After the exhaustion of cryogen, NASA’s Planetary Division funded an extension to focus on near-Earth objects (Mainzer et al. 2011), which continued observing in the W1 and W2 bands until completing a second pass over the entire sky in February 2011.”