THE 2.4 M GALAXY LUMINOSITY FUNCTION AS MEASURED USING WISE. II. SAMPLE SELECTION

The WISE satellite surveyed the entire sky multiple times in four infrared (IR) wavelengths (3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 m; Wright et al. 2010). This all-sky IR photometric survey makes it possible to leverage many of the large publicly available spectroscopic redshift surveys to measure galaxy properties in the IR. While characterizing the cross-matching of WISE data to a single survey is a straightforward process, doing it with six dierent redshift surveys takes a fair amount of space to characterize adequately, because each survey has unique caveats and characteristics that need addressing. This work describes a data set that results from matching ve public redshift surveys with the AllWISE data release, along with a reanalysis of the data described in Lake et al. (2012). The combined data set has an additional ux limit of 80 Jy (19:14AB mag) in WISE's W1 lter imposed in order to limitit to targets with high completeness and reliable photometry in the AllWISE data set. Consistentanalysis of all of the data is only possible if the color bias discussed in Ilbert et al. (2004) is addressed(for example: the techniques explored in Lake et al. 2017). The sample dened herein is used in thispaper's companion paper, Lake et al. (2018), to measure the luminosity function of galaxies at 2:4