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2014ApJ...781....5M - Astrophys. J., 781, 5 (2014/January-3)

A full-sky, high-resolution atlas of galactic 12 µm dust emission with WISE.

MEISNER A.M. and FINKBEINER D.P.

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We describe our custom processing of the entire Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) 12 µm imaging data set, and present a high-resolution, full-sky map of diffuse Galactic dust emission that is free of compact sources and other contaminating artifacts. The principal distinctions between our resulting co-added images and the WISE Atlas stacks are our removal of compact sources, including their associated electronic and optical artifacts, and our preservation of spatial modes larger than 1.°5. We provide access to the resulting full-sky map via a set of 430 12.°5x12.°5 mosaics. These stacks have been smoothed to 15'' resolution and are accompanied by corresponding coverage maps, artifact images, and bit-masks for point sources, resolved compact sources, and other defects. When combined appropriately with other mid-infrared and far-infrared data sets, we expect our WISE 12 µm co-adds to form the basis for a full-sky dust extinction map with angular resolution several times better than Schlegel et al.

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Journal keyword(s): dust, extinction - infrared: ISM - ISM: structure

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