- ID:
- ivo://irsa.ipac/WISE/Catalog/3-Band/Metadata
- Title:
- WISE 3-Band Cryo Atlas Metadata Table
- Short Name:
- WISE 3-Band MT
- Date:
- 01 Oct 2018 20:27:16
- Publisher:
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- Description:
- The WISE 3-Band Cryo Data Release products are comprised of data taken during the mission's 3-Band Cryo survey phase. This phase covers the time following the exhaustion of solid hydrogen in the WISE payload outer cryogen tank, while the detectors and telescope were still cooled by the inner cryogen tank. During this time, WISE's W1, W2 and W3 bands were operational and continued to acquire useful data, but the W4 detector was saturated by thermal emission from the warming telescope. The sensitivity achieved in the W1 and W2 bands was similar to that during the full cryogenic mission phase. The W3 measurement sensitivity was degraded and decreased steadily during the 3-Band Cryo phase because of the increasing telescope temperature and decreasing exposure times. WISE scanned approximately 30% of the sky during the 3-Band Cryo survey phase continuing with the same strategy that was used during the full cryogenic survey. The following table contains brief descriptions of all metadata information that is relevant to the production of the Atlas images and Source Catalog. The table contains the (RA, DEC) of the center of the Tile. Much of the information in this table is processing-specific and may not be of interest to general users (e.g., flags indicating whether frames have been processed successfully or not, and the date and time of the start of the pipeline processing, etc.). The metadata table also contains some characterization and derived statistics of the coadd image Tile, basic photometric parameters used for photometry and derived statistics for extracted sources and artifacts. For example, it contains median pixel values of the coadded sky coverage map, the number of sources with profile-fit photometry Signal-to-Noise (SNR) greater than 3, and the total number of real sources affected by artifacts such as optical ghosts, etc.
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24062. WISE 3-Band Cryo Image Atlas
- ID:
- ivo://irsa.ipac/WISE/Images/3bandcryo
- Title:
- WISE 3-Band Cryo Image Atlas
- Short Name:
- WISE_3bandcryo
- Date:
- 01 Oct 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- Description:
- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE; Wright et al. 2010) mapped the sky at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 um (W1, W2, W3, W4) in 2010 with an angular resolution of 6.1", 6.4", 6.5", & 12.0" in the four bands. During the full cryogenic survey phase, 7 January 2010 to 6 August 2010, when the detectors and telescope were cooled by solid hydrogen in both inner and outer cryogen tanks, WISE achieved 5 sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1 and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in the four bands. The sky was covered 1.2 times during this period, and the data acquired were used to construct the products for the March 2012 WISE All-Sky Data Release. The WISE 3-Band Cryo survey phase began on 6 August 2010 following the exhaustion of frozen hydrogen in the payload's outer cryogen tank. WISE scanned approximately 30% of the sky over the next 54 days while the focal planes were cooled by hydrogen ice in the inner cryogen tank. The telescope warmed from the 12 K maintained during the main mission to 45 K. Imaging data in the 3.4, 4.6 and 12 um bands were acquired, but elevated thermal emission from the telescope prevented useful data from being collected in the 22 um band. As illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, the 3-Band Cryo 3.4 and 4.6 um band measurements are nearly as sensitive as those in the full cryogenic survey, but the increasing temperature and reduced exposure times of the 12 um measurements result in significantly lower sensitivity.
- ID:
- ivo://irsa.ipac/WISE/Catalog/3-Band/SSOPAL
- Title:
- WISE 3-Band Cryo Known Solar System Object Possible Association List
- Short Name:
- WISE 3-Band SSO
- Date:
- 01 Oct 2018 20:27:16
- Publisher:
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- Description:
- The WISE 3-Band Cryo Single Exposure (L1b) Source Table contains positions and photometry in the 3.4, 4.6 and 12 μm bands for 3,703,319,374 sources extracted from observations made during the WISE 3-Band Cryo survey phase, 6 August 2010 through 29 September 2010. WISE scanned approximately 30% of the sky during this period when the telescope and focal planes operated at a slightly higher temperature, but were still cooled by solid hydrogen in the inner cryogen tank. The Known Solar System Object Possible Associations List is a compendium of asteroids and comets, with orbits known at the time of WISE second-pass data processing, that were predicted to be within the field-of-view at the time of individual WISE exposures. Individual objects were observed multiple times, so may have multiple entries in the list. When the predicted position of a solar system object is in proximity to a detection in the WISE single-exposures, the WISE source position and brightness information are also provided.
24064. WISE 3-Band Cryo L1b Images
- ID:
- ivo://irsa.ipac/WISE/Images/3-Band/L1b
- Title:
- WISE 3-Band Cryo L1b Images
- Short Name:
- WISE 3-Band L1b
- Date:
- 16 Mar 2017 01:00:00
- Publisher:
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- Description:
- The WISE 3-Band Cryo Data Release products are comprised of data taken during the mission's 3-Band Cryo survey phase. This phase covers the time following the exhaustion of solid hydrogen in the WISE payload outer cryogen tank, while the detectors and telescope were still cooled by the inner cryogen tank. During this time, WISE's W1, W2 and W3 bands were operational and continued to acquire useful data, but the W4 detector was saturated by thermal emission from the warming telescope. The sensitivity achieved in the W1 and W2 bands was similar to that during the full cryogenic mission phase. The W3 measurement sensitivity was degraded and decreased steadily during the 3-Band Cryo phase because of the increasing telescope temperature and decreasing exposure times. The WISE 3-Band Cryo Release Single-Exposure images consist of 392,879 photometrically and astrometrically calibrated 1016x1016 pix at 2.75"/pix FITS image sets for each individual WISE exposure taken between 6 August and 29 September 2010. Each image set consists of intensity images, noise maps, and bit-masks indicating pixel use status, one each for the W1, W2, and W3 bands.
- ID:
- ivo://irsa.ipac/WISE/Catalog/3-Band/Frame_Metadata
- Title:
- WISE 3-Band Cryo Single Exposure (L1b) Frame Metadata Table
- Short Name:
- WISE 3-Band FMT
- Date:
- 01 Oct 2018 20:27:16
- Publisher:
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- Description:
- The WISE 3-Band Cryo Data Release products are comprised of data taken during the mission's 3-Band Cryo survey phase. This phase covers the time following the exhaustion of solid hydrogen in the WISE payload outer cryogen tank, while the detectors and telescope were still cooled by the inner cryogen tank. During this time, WISE's W1, W2 and W3 bands were operational and continued to acquire useful data, but the W4 detector was saturated by thermal emission from the warming telescope. The sensitivity achieved in the W1 and W2 bands was similar to that during the full cryogenic mission phase. The W3 measurement sensitivity was degraded and decreased steadily during the 3-Band Cryo phase because of the increasing telescope temperature and decreasing exposure times. WISE scanned approximately 30% of the sky during the 3-Band Cryo survey phase continuing with the same strategy that was used during the full cryogenic survey. The following table contains brief descriptions of all metadata information that is relevant to the processing of Single-exposure (level 1) images and the extraction of sources from the corresponding Single-exposure images. The table contains the unique scan ID for a specific scan frame and the reconstructed right ascension and declination of the level 1b frame center. Much of the information in this table is processing-specific, and may not be of interest to general users (e.g. flags indicating whether frames have been processed or not, and the date and time for starting of the pipeline, etc.). The metadata table also contains some characterization and derived statistics of the Single-expsoure image frames, basic photometric parameters used for photometry and derived statistics for extracted sources and artifacts. For example, it contains median pixel values of the coadded sky coverage map, the number of sources with profile-fit photometry Signal-to-Noise (SNR) greater than 3, and the total number of real sources affected by artifacts such as electronic ghosts, etc.
- ID:
- ivo://irsa.ipac/WISE/Catalog/3-Band/SingleExpSourceTbl
- Title:
- WISE 3-Band Cryo Single Exposure (L1b) Source Table
- Short Name:
- WISE 3-Band ST
- Date:
- 01 Oct 2018 20:27:16
- Publisher:
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- Description:
- The WISE 3-Band Cryo Single Exposure (L1b) Source Table contains positions and photometry in the 3.4, 4.6 and 12 μm bands for 3,703,319,374 sources extracted from observations made during the WISE 3-Band Cryo survey phase, 6 August 2010 through 29 September 2010. WISE scanned approximately 30% of the sky during this period when the telescope and focal planes operated at a slightly higher temperature, but were still cooled by solid hydrogen in the inner cryogen tank.
- ID:
- ivo://irsa.ipac/WISE/Catalog/3-Band/Source_Database
- Title:
- WISE 3-Band Cryo Source Working Database
- Short Name:
- WISE 3-Band SD
- Date:
- 01 Oct 2018 20:27:16
- Publisher:
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- Description:
- The WISE 3-Band Cryo Source Working Database (WDB) contains positions and photometry in the 3.4, 4.6 and 12 μm bands for 261,418,479 sources extracted from observations made during the WISE 3-Band Cryo survey phase, 6 August 2010 through 29 September 2010. WISE scanned approximately 30% of the sky during this period when the telescope and focal planes operated at a slightly higher temperature, but were still cooled by solid hydrogen in the inner cryogen tank. CAUTION: The 3-Band Cryo Source WDB is not a well-vetted, reliable list of infrared sources like the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog. The WDB contains both detections of real astronomical objects, as well as spurious detections of image artifacts, noise excursions, transient events such as cosmic rays, satellite trails and hot pixels. The WDB also contains redundant extractions of objects that fall in the overlap region between the 3-Band Cryo Atlas Tiles. The WISE 3-Band Cryo Source WDB is best used as a resource to learn more about objects that are found in the All-Sky Release Source Catalog. The 3-Band Cryo observations offer a second, independent epoch of measurement for objects in 30% of the sky, so can be used to test for object motion, flux variability and reliability in the case of very faint sources. 3-Band Cryo WDB entries have been cross-correlated with the All-Sky Catalog and associated Catalog source information is provided in the 3-Band Cryo WDB records.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/wibrals
- Title:
- WISE Blazar-like Radio-Loud Source (WIBRaLS) Catalog
- Short Name:
- WIBRALS
- Date:
- 11 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains a catalog of radio-loud candidate gamma-ray emitting blazars with WISE mid-infrared colors similar to the colors of confirmed gamma-ray blazars. The catalog is assembled from WISE sources detected in all four WISE filters, with colors that are compatible with the three-dimensional locus of the WISE gamma-ray emitting blazars, and which can be spatially cross-matched with radio sources from one of the three radio surveys: NVSS, FIRST, and/or SUMSS. The authors' initial WISE selection uses a slightly modified version of previously successful algorithms. They then select only the radio-loud sources using a measure of the radio-to-IR flux, the q<sub>22</sub> parameter, which is analogous to the q<sub>24</sub> parameter known in the literature but which instead uses the WISE band-four flux at 22 micron (µm). Their final catalog contains 7,855 sources classified as BL Lacs, FSRQs, or mixed candidate blazars; 1,295 of these sources can be spatially re-associated as confirmed blazars. In their paper, the authors describe the properties of the final catalog of WISE blazar-like radio-loud sources and consider possible contaminants. Finally, they discuss why this large catalog of candidate gamma-ray emitting blazars represents a new and useful resource to address the problem of finding low-energy counterparts to currently unidentified high-energy sources. The WISE magnitudes in the [3.4], [4.6], [12] and [22] um nominal filters are in the Vega system. The values of three WISE magnitudes, namely [3.4], [4.6], and [12], and of the colors derived using those magnitudes, have been corrected for galactic extinction according to the extinction law presented by Draine (2003, ARA&A, 41, 241). In their study, the authors adopt the nomenclature proposed in the Multi-wavelength Blazar Catalog (BZCat) that labels BL Lac objects as 'BZBs' and flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) as 'BZQs'. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2014 based on a machine-readable version of Table 4 from the reference paper that was obtained from the ApJS web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/215/14
- Title:
- WISE candidate {gamma}-ray blazar radio sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/215/14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of radio-loud candidate {gamma}-ray emitting blazars with WISE mid-infrared colors similar to the colors of confirmed {gamma}-ray blazars. The catalog is assembled from WISE sources detected in all four WISE filters, with colors compatible with the three-dimensional locus of the WISE {gamma}-ray emitting blazars, and which can be spatially cross-matched with radio sources from one of the three radio surveys: NVSS, FIRST, and/or SUMSS. Our initial WISE selection uses a slightly modified version of previously successful algorithms. We then select only the radio-loud sources using a measure of the radio-to-IR flux, the q_22_parameter, which is analogous to the q_24_ parameter known in the literature but which instead uses the WISE band-four flux at 22{mu}m. Our final catalog contains 7855 sources classified as BL Lacs, FSRQs, or mixed candidate blazars; 1295 of these sources can be spatially re-associated as confirmed blazars. We describe the properties of the final catalog of WISE blazar-like radio-loud sources and consider possible contaminants. Finally, we discuss why this large catalog of candidate {gamma}-ray emitting blazars represents a new and useful resource to address the problem of finding low-energy counterparts to currently unidentified high-energy sources.
24070. WISE Catalog ConeSearch
- ID:
- ivo://archive.stsci.edu/catalogs/WISE
- Title:
- WISE Catalog ConeSearch
- Short Name:
- WISE CS
- Date:
- 13 Feb 2020 17:44:45
- Publisher:
- Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
- Description:
- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE; Wright et al. 2010) mapped the sky at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 μm (W1, W2, W3, W4) in 2010 with an angular resolution of 6.1", 6.4", 6.5", and 12.0" in the four bands. WISE achieved 5σ point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1 and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in the four bands. Sensitivity improves toward the ecliptic poles due to denser coverage and lower zodiacal background. The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is mirrored at MAST and is thus available as a cone search. All available catalogs are listed at http://archive.stsci.edu/vo/mast_services.html.
