New WISE data release
WISE All Sky
March 21, 2012
WISE has released a new dataset. It is a re-processing of the data taken from 1 Oct 2010 to 1 Feb 2011 after all the hydrogen coolant was gone. During this “warm” WISE period only the 3.4 and 4.6 micron channels worked. A preliminary version of this data using the “cold” WISE calibrations and point spread functions was released earlier. This new version uses calibrations and PSFs based on the warm WISE data.
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Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
