May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21421704p&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #217.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.724
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The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a cryogenic space telescope to launch in 2009 which will perform a simultaneous all-sky survey at 3.3, 4.7, 12, and 23 microns. With sensitivities many times better than previous missions, WISE is poised to supply mid-infrared spectral energy distributions to most of the objects detected in the near-IR 2MASS survey. This will make the WISE database ideal for detecting and characterizing stars with `warm' infrared excess out to 23 microns. The WISE science team intends to use this capability to search for young debris disk systems in the solar neighborhood, take inventory of evolved dusty stars in the Milky Way, and survey all star-forming regions not observed by
Spitzer. With its baseline sensitivity, WISE will be able to detect faint debris disk emission from G stars at 100 pc and optically thick disks around solar mass T Tauri stars at 2 kpc. In this contribution, we will discuss the promise of WISE in performing these and other galactic science investigations.
Padgett Deborah
WISE Team
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