Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Mission Characteristics
| Lifetime: |
9.5 months + 4 months post-cryo |
| Wavelength: |
3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 microns
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| Area Coverage: |
All Sky; Preliminary data release covers 57% of the sky |
| Instruments: |
Survey Camera
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| Funding Agency: |
NASA
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| Contributing Institutions: |
UCLA, JPL, IPAC/Caltech, UC Berkeley, SDL, BATC
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| Canonical Papers: |
WISE: Wright et al. (2010)
NEOWISE: Mainzer et al. (2011)
Details on how to acknowledge WISE and NEOWISE are provided in the documentation.
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IRSA Services - All-Sky Release
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Note: The Preliminary Release has been superseded by the All-Sky Release.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.
Other Resources
Equatorial Aitoff projection map showing the area covered by the WISE All-Sky Release (left)
and Preliminary Release (right). Click for larger versions. The colors encode the average number of WISE
exposures. The legend on the left gives the cumulative (deg2).
