WISE Specs

Websites

• WISE for astronomers

• Ned's WISE site

• Roc's WISE pages

• Wiki Page (internal)

• WISE FDD

Literature

• Preliminary design of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

• Fact Sheet

Sensitivity

Other

• D = 40 cm

• Arrays: HgCdTE for 3.3 and 4.7um; Si:As for 12 and 23 um

• Pixel size: (18 um) == 2.75 arcsec (FOV = 47 arcmin)

• Angular resolution (see table below): ~6, 6, 12, 19 arcsec, respectively

Data (image) Levels

• Roc's "WISE Science Data Level Definitions"