Matthew "Matteo" Paz (Caltech/IPAC): "Studying Variability with NEOWISE"

The (NEO)WISE mission provides a uniquely long time baseline in the infrared, allowing for the study of astronomical variability over the whole sky. We have processed the entirety of the 200 billion entry single-exposure photometry table, detecting about 1.9 million candidate variables. The resulting VarWISE catalog discovers variability in previously invisible regions extincted by dust, and observes some phenomena particularly well at longer wavelengths.