Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise) Catalog Of Periodic Variable Stars

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Catalog of Periodic Variable Stars<br> Xiaodian Chen, Shu Wang, Licai Deng, Richard de Grijs and Ming Yang We have compiled the first all-sky mid-infrared variable-star catalog based on Wide-field<br> Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) five-year survey data. Requiring more than 100 detections<br> for a given object, 50,282 carefully and robustly selected periodic variables are discovered,<br> of which 34,769 (69%) are new. Most are located in the Galactic plane and near the equatorial<br> poles. A method to classify variables based on their mid-infrared light curves is established<br> using known variable types in the General Catalog of Variable Stars. Careful classification of<br> the new variables results in a tally of 21,427 new EW-type eclipsing binaries, 5654 EA-type <br> eclipsing binaries, 1312 Cepheids, and 1231 RR Lyraes. By comparison with known variables <br> available in the literature, we estimate that the misclassi- fication rate is 5% and 10% for<br> short- and long-period variables, respectively. A detailed comparison of the types, periods, <br> and amplitudes with variables in the Catalina catalog shows that the independently obtained <br> classifications parameters are in excellent agreement. This enlarged sample of variable <br> stars will not only be helpful to study Galactic structure and extinction properties, <br> they can also be used to constrain stellar evolution theory and as potential candidates for<br> the James Webb Space Telescope.<br> <br> These supplementary materials contain ALLWISE and NEOWISE-R single-exposure photometry tables of variables list<br> in Table 2 and 6 of the paper, and light curve figures for the 50,282 periodic variables in Table 2. <br> SourceID is identifier join these attachments to Table 2 and 6. Example: For variable star WISEJ094812.4+093448 in Table 2, the SourceID=170 is adopted to search <br> corresponding single-exposure information in both 'allwise12.txt' and 'neowise12.txt'. File Description: allwise12.txt Single exposure photometry data of variables from ALLWISE. Bytes Format Units Label Explanations<br> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br> 1- 8 I5 --- SourceID Internal source identifier <br> 10- 20 F11.7 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000) <br> 22- 32 F11.7 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000) <br> 34- 47 F14.8 day MJD Modified Julian date of the mid-point of the observation <br> 49- 54 F6.3 mag W1mag Single exposure WISE W1 (3.35 micron) band magnitude<br> 56- 63 F6.3 mag eW1mag W1 band uncertainty<br> 65- 77 F6.3 mag W2mag Single exposure WISE W2 (4.6 micron) band magnitude <br> 79- 86 F6.3 mag eW1mag W2 band uncertainty<br> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <br> <br> neowise12.txt Single exposure photometry data of variables from NEOWISE-R. Bytes Format Units Label Explanations<br> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> 1- 8 I5 --- SourceID Internal source identifier <br> 10- 21 F11.7 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000) <br> 23- 34 F11.7 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000) <br> 36- 44 F6.3 mag W1mag Single exposure WISE W1 (3.35 micron) band magnitude<br> 46- 54 F6.3 mag eW1mag W1 band uncertainty<br> 56- 64 F6.3 mag W2mag Single exposure WISE W2 (4.6 micron) band magnitude <br> 66- 74 F6.3 mag eW1mag W2 band uncertainty<br> 76- 90 F14.8 day MJD Modified Julian date of the mid-point of the observation<br> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br> figure0.zip -- figure23.zip Full figures of 50282 WISE variables. They are divided into 24 <br> packages by the order of Right Ascension.