WISE 3-band cryogenic survey
E1026157
The WISE 3-band cryogenic survey was a phase of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission that mapped the sky in three infrared bands while the spacecraft’s cryogen was still available, providing key data for later all-sky infrared catalogs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WISE 3-band cryogenic survey canonical | 2 |
| WISE 4-band cryogenic survey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13179740 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WISE 3-band cryogenic survey Context triple: [AllWISE Source Catalog, basedOn, WISE 3-band cryogenic survey]
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A.
Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey
The Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey is an astronomical research project that combines infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope with optical spectroscopy from the IMACS instrument to study the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time.
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B.
Arecibo L-band Feed Array survey
The Arecibo L-band Feed Array survey is a major radio astronomy project that used the Arecibo telescope’s multi-beam receiver to map neutral hydrogen and study the large-scale structure and dynamics of galaxies.
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C.
VISTA Hemisphere Survey
The VISTA Hemisphere Survey is a large-scale near-infrared sky survey using the VISTA telescope to map the entire southern celestial hemisphere for studies of Galactic structure, nearby stars, and distant galaxies.
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D.
GLIMPSE survey
The GLIMPSE survey is a Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared imaging project that mapped the inner Milky Way to study its structure and star-forming regions.
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E.
COSMOS survey
The COSMOS survey is a large, multiwavelength astronomical survey of a two-square-degree patch of the sky designed to study the formation and evolution of galaxies and large-scale structure across cosmic time.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WISE 3-band cryogenic survey Target entity description: The WISE 3-band cryogenic survey was a phase of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission that mapped the sky in three infrared bands while the spacecraft’s cryogen was still available, providing key data for later all-sky infrared catalogs.
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A.
Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey
The Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey is an astronomical research project that combines infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope with optical spectroscopy from the IMACS instrument to study the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time.
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B.
Arecibo L-band Feed Array survey
The Arecibo L-band Feed Array survey is a major radio astronomy project that used the Arecibo telescope’s multi-beam receiver to map neutral hydrogen and study the large-scale structure and dynamics of galaxies.
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C.
VISTA Hemisphere Survey
The VISTA Hemisphere Survey is a large-scale near-infrared sky survey using the VISTA telescope to map the entire southern celestial hemisphere for studies of Galactic structure, nearby stars, and distant galaxies.
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D.
GLIMPSE survey
The GLIMPSE survey is a Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared imaging project that mapped the inner Milky Way to study its structure and star-forming regions.
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E.
COSMOS survey
The COSMOS survey is a large, multiwavelength astronomical survey of a two-square-degree patch of the sky designed to study the formation and evolution of galaxies and large-scale structure across cosmic time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical sky survey
ⓘ
infrared survey ⓘ |
| bandDesignation |
W1
ⓘ
W2 ⓘ W3 ⓘ |
| dataArchive | NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive ⓘ |
| dataFormat | FITS ⓘ |
| dataProduct |
all-sky infrared catalog
ⓘ
image atlas ⓘ source catalogs ⓘ |
| enables |
cross-matching with optical and radio surveys
ⓘ
infrared color selection of astronomical sources ⓘ |
| missionAgency |
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ⓘ
linked to:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|
| missionCenter |
NASA Ames Research Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Ames Research Center
|
| missionName | WISE 3-band cryogenic survey ⓘ |
| numberOfBands | 3 ⓘ |
| observes |
asteroids
ⓘ
brown dwarfs ⓘ comets ⓘ galaxies ⓘ stars ⓘ |
| observingBand | infrared ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission
ⓘ
linked to:
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
|
| partOfPhase | WISE cryogenic mission phase ⓘ |
| purpose |
map the sky in three infrared bands
ⓘ
provide data for all-sky infrared catalogs ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
NEOWISE
ⓘ
linked to:
NEOWISE mission
WISE 4-band cryogenic survey ⓘ
linked to:
WISE 3-band cryogenic survey
|
| skyCoverage | near all-sky ⓘ |
| spacecraftState | cryogenic phase ⓘ |
| surveyType | all-sky survey ⓘ |
| telescopeType | space telescope ⓘ |
| usedFor |
brown dwarf searches
ⓘ
extragalactic astronomy ⓘ solar system science ⓘ studies of galactic structure ⓘ |
| usesResource | cryogen ⓘ |
| usesSpacecraft | WISE spacecraft ⓘ |
| wavelengthCoverage |
mid-infrared
ⓘ
near-infrared ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: WISE 3-band cryogenic survey Description of subject: The WISE 3-band cryogenic survey was a phase of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission that mapped the sky in three infrared bands while the spacecraft’s cryogen was still available, providing key data for later all-sky infrared catalogs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: WISE 3-band cryogenic survey