VizieR Online Data Catalog: WISE/NEOWISE observations of comets (Bauer+, 2017)

NEOWISE/WISE detected 164 recognized cometary bodies during the four-band mission, including 56 Long-Period Comets (LPCs) and 108 Short-Period Comets (SPCs). A total of 71 of these were detected by creating stacked images in the co-moving reference frames of previously known comets that were undetectable in the individual frames. Objects recovered from stacked images will be affected by different detection biases (e.g., they were found at different sensitivity levels) than those detected by the WISE Moving Object Processing System (WMOPS) and so are excluded from the debiasing analyses. A total of 95 of the 108 SPCs were Jupiter-Family Comets (JFCs), the remainder being 7 active main-belt asteroids, 4 active centaurs, and 2 Halley-type comets.

Several comets have been discussed in previous publications. NEOWISE observations of those comets not discussed in previous publications and their extracted fluxes from the stacked images are summarized in Table1.

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