Publications (35)
Initial Performance of the NEOWISE Reactivation Mission
A. Mainzer, J. Bauer, R. M. Cutri +32
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has been brought out of hibernation and has resumed surveying the sky at 3.4 and 4.6 um. The scientific objectives of t…
NEOWISE Observations of Near-Earth Objects: Preliminary Results
A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Bauer +34
With the NEOWISE portion of the \emph{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} (WISE) project, we have carried out a highly uniform survey of the near-Earth object (NEO) population at…
Proton irradiation results for long-wave HgCdTe infrared detector arrays for NEOCam
M. Dorn, J. L. Pipher, C. McMurtry +6
HgCdTe detector arrays with a cutoff wavelength of ~10 m intended for the NEOCam space mission were subjected to proton beam irradiation at the University of California Davis C…
The Population of Tiny Near-Earth Objects Observed by NEOWISE
A. Mainzer, J. Bauer, T. Grav +8
Only a very small fraction of the asteroid population at size scales comparable to the object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia has been discovered to date, and physical prope…
Spitzer Photometry of WISE-Selected Brown Dwarf and Hyper-Luminous Infrared Galaxy Candidates
Roger L. Griffith, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt +23
We present Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 m photometry and positions for a sample of 1510 brown dwarf candidates identified by the WISE all-sky survey. Of these, 166 have been spectroscop…
NEOWISE Studies of Spectrophotometrically Classified Asteroids: Preliminary Results
A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Masiero +10
The NEOWISE dataset offers the opportunity to study the variations in albedo for asteroid classification schemes based on visible and near-infrared observations for a large sample…