The band-merged unWISE Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Schlafly E.F.
  2. Meisner A.M.
  3. Green G.M.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the unWISE Catalog, containing the positions and fluxes of roughly 2 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 catalog (AllWISE): first, it is based on significantly deeper imaging, and second, it features improved modeling of crowded regions. The deeper imaging used in the unWISE Catalog comes from the coaddition of all publicly available 3-5um WISE imaging, including that from the ongoing NEOWISE-reactivation mission, thereby increasing the total exposure time by a factor of 5 relative to AllWISE. At these depths, even at high Galactic latitudes, many sources are blended with their neighbors; accordingly, the unWISE analysis simultaneously fits thousands of sources to obtain accurate photometry. Our new catalog detects sources roughly 0.7mag fainter than the AllWISE catalog at 5{sigma}, and more accurately models millions of faint sources in the Galactic plane, enabling a wealth of Galactic and extragalactic science. In particular, relative to AllWISE, unWISE doubles the number of galaxies detected between redshifts 0 and 1 and triples the number between redshifts 1 and 2, cataloging more than half a billion galaxies over the whole sky.

Keywords
  1. infrared-sources
  2. infrared-photometry
  3. surveys
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJS..240...30S
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/II/363
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/363

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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/II/363/unwise?
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History

2020-04-14T14:13:58Z
Resource record created
2020-04-14T14:13:58Z
Created
2023-12-20T12:10:52Z
Updated

Contact

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Postal Address
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