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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 156, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aacbcd
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infrared: general; surveys; techniques: image processing
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- NASA Astrophysics Data Analysis Program [NNH17AE75I]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Planetary Science Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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We have used the first similar to 3 years of 3.4 mu m (W1) and 4.6 mu m (W2) observations from the WISE and NEOWISE missions to create a full-sky set of time-resolved coadds. As a result of the WISE survey strategy, a typical sky location is visited every six months and is observed during greater than or similar to 12 exposures per visit, with these exposures spanning a similar to 1 day time interval. We have stacked the exposures within such similar to 1 day intervals to produce one coadd per band per visit-that is, one coadd every six months at a given position on the sky in each of W1 and W2. For most parts of the sky, we have generated six epochal coadds per band, with one visit during the fully cryogenic WISE mission, one visit during NEOWISE, and then, after a 33-month gap, four more visits during the NEOWISE-Reactivation mission phase. These coadds are suitable for studying long-timescale mid-infrared variability and measuring motions to similar to 1.3 mag fainter than the single-exposure detection limit. In most sky regions, our coadds span a 5.5-year time period and therefore provide a >10x enhancement in time baseline relative to that available for the AllWISE catalog's apparent motion measurements. As such, the signature application of these new coadds is expected to be motion-based identification of relatively faint brown dwarfs, especially those cold enough to remain undetected by Gaia.
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