Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE

Mission Characteristics

WISE Cryogenic Survey WISE 3-band Survey NEOWISE Post-Cryo Survey NEOWISE
Reactivation
Lifetime: Dec. 14, 2009 -
Aug. 6, 2010		 Aug. 6, 2010 -
Sep. 29, 2010		 Sep. 29, 2010 -
Feb. 1, 2011		 Dec. 13, 2013 -
Aug. 1, 2024
Wavelength: 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 microns 3.4, 4.6, and 12 microns 3.4 and 4.6 microns 3.4 and 4.6 microns
Area Coverage: 120% of the sky 30% of the sky 70% of the sky 2100% of the sky
Instruments: Survey Camera
Funding Agency: NASA
Contributing Institutions: UCLA, JPL, IPAC/Caltech, UC Berkeley, SDL, BATC, U. Arizona
Canonical Papers: WISE: Wright et al. (2010)
NEOWISE: Mainzer et al. (2011)
NEOWISE Reactivation: Mainzer et al. (2014)
Details on how to acknowledge WISE and NEOWISE are provided in the documentation.
Dates of Major Releases: Apr. 14, 2011 Preliminary Data release
Mar. 14, 2012 All-Sky Data release
June 29, 2012 WISE 3-band Cryo Data release
May 22, 2013 NEOWISE Post-Cryo Data release
Nov. 13, 2013 AllWISE Data release
Mar. 26, 2015 NEOWISE Reactivation 2015 Data release
Mar. 23, 2016 NEOWISE Reactivation 2016 Data release
June 1, 2017 NEOWISE Reactivation 2017 Data release
April 19, 2018 NEOWISE Reactivation 2018 Data release
April 10, 2019 NEOWISE Reactivation 2019 Data release (Note scanid rollover change)
March 26, 2020 NEOWISE Reactivation 2020 Data release
March 24, 2021 NEOWISE Reactivation 2021 Data release
March 23, 2022 NEOWISE Reactivation 2022 Data release
March 22, 2023 NEOWISE Reactivation 2023 Data release
March 21, 2024 NEOWISE Reactivation 2024 Data release
Nov. 14, 2024 NEOWISE Reactivation Final Data release

IRSA Services - AllWISE, All-Sky, 3-Band Cryo, NEOWISE Post-Cryo, and NEOWISE Reactivation 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and Final Releases

WISE Catalog Search Access WISE catalog and other tabular data products
WISE Image Service Access WISE image data
WISE/NEOWISE Coadder Create science-quality image mosaics from all phases of the WISE and NEOWISE missions
Time Series Tool Plot time series data, view associated images, find period, and phase fold.
WISE Release Coverage Service Preview coverage in the WISE data releases
Catalog Bulk Download Bulk download WISE and NEOWISE catalogs in ASCII or Parquet format.
Cloud Access Access images and catalogs available in AWS S3 cloud storage.

IRSA Documentation - AllWISE, All-Sky, 3-Band Cryo, NEOWISE Post-Cryo, and NEOWISE Reactivation 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and Final Releases

Introduction - AllWISE Release AllWISE Release Intro Page
Introduction - All-Sky Release WISE All-Sky Release Intro Page
Introduction - 3-Band Cryo Release WISE 3-Band Cryo Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Post-Cryo Release NEOWISE Post-Cryo Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2015 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2015 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2016 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2016 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2017 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2017 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2018 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2018 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2019 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2019 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2020 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2020 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2021 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2021 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2022 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2022 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2023 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2023 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation 2024 Release NEOWISE Reactivation 2024 Release Intro Page
Introduction - NEOWISE Reactivation Final Release NEOWISE Reactivation Final Release Intro Page
Program Interfaces Information on program-friendly data services
Documentation - AllWISE Release AllWISE Release Explanatory Supplement
Documentation - All-Sky Release WISE All-Sky Release Explanatory Supplement
Documentation - 3-Band Cryo Release WISE 3-Band Cryo Release Explanatory Supplement
Documentation - NEOWISE Post-Cryo Release NEOWISE Post-Cryo Release Explanatory Supplement
Documentation - NEOWISE Reactivation Releases NEOWISE Reactivation Explanatory Supplement
Tutorials Tutorial videos for WISE services

IRSA Services - Preliminary Release

Note: The Preliminary Release has been superseded by the All-Sky Release. The Preliminary Release products are available for reference purposes, but should not be used for new research.

Preliminary Release Catalog Search Access WISE Preliminary Release catalogs using IRSA's catalog query engine
Preliminary Release Introduction WISE Preliminary Release Intro Page
NEOWISE Post-Cryo Preliminary Release Introduction NEOWISE Post-Cryo Preliminary Release Intro Page
Preliminary Release Documentation WISE Preliminary Release Explanatory Supplement
Catalog Bulk Download WISE Preliminary Release Catalog Bulk Download

Contributed Data Sets

CatWISE CatWISE Catalogs
NEOWISE Small Bodies Catalog NEOWISE Derived Diameters and Albedos of Solar System Small Bodies Catalog v2
unWISE unWISE Images and Catalog
WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions
AllWISE Full-Depth Ecliptic Polar Atlas AllWISE Full-Depth Ecliptic Polar Atlas
z0MGS The z=0 Multiwavelength Galaxy Synthesis (z0MGS)

Other Resources

NEOWISE website NEOWISE Home Page at IPAC
WISE website WISE Home Page at Berkeley
NASA WISE website WISE Mission Page at NASA
Equatorial Aitoff projection maps showing the area covered by the WISE All-Sky Release (top left), the 3-Band Cryo Release (top right), the NEOWISE Post-Cryo Release (bottom left), and NEOWISE Reactivation 2018 Release (bottom right). Click for larger versions. The colors encode the average number of WISE exposures.