WISE Imaging and Photometry of Resolved Galaxies

Goal -- develop and execute an automated pipeline that characterizes and extract photometric information for resolved galaxies. The end result will be the WISE Extended Source Catalog, or WISE XSC.

Preliminary results are encourging. The test data set come from the GAMA G12 region (project led by M. Cluver), WISE sources that have cross-matched with 2MASS galaxies. In the WISE AllSky CAtalog, that means sources with non-zero or non-null w?gmag photometry (the scaled-up 2MASS aperture). These source are well resolved by 2MASS (risophotal > 10") and likely resolved by WISE W1 (and sometimes the other bands). The following link shows some snapshots of the galaxies as seen and characterizd with WISE imaging.

To do: