The CatWISE2020 Catalog consists of 1,890,715,640 sources over the entire sky
selected from WISE and NEOWISE survey data at 3.4 and 4.6 μm (W1 and W2)
collected from 2010 Jan. 7 to 2018 Dec. 13. This dataset adds two years to that
used for the CatWISE Preliminary Catalog (Eisenhardt et al., 2020), bringing
the total to six times as many exposures spanning over sixteen times as large a
time baseline as the AllWISE catalog. The other major change from the CatWISE
Preliminary Catalog is that the detection list for the CatWISE2020 Catalog was
generated using crowdsource (Schlafly et al. 2019), while the CatWISE
Preliminary Catalog used the detection software used for AllWISE. These two
factors result in roughly twice as many sources in the CatWISE2020 Catalog. The
scatter with respect to Spitzer photometry at faint magnitudes in the
COSMOS field, which is out of the Galactic plane and at low ecliptic latitude
(corresponding to lower WISE coverage depth) is similar to that for the CatWISE
Preliminary Catalog. The 90% completeness depth for the CatWISE2020 Catalog is
at W1=17.7 mag and W2=17.5 mag, 1.7 mag deeper than in the CatWISE Preliminary
Catalog. From comparison to Gaia, CatWISE2020 motions are accurate at
the 20 mas yr−1 level for W1∼15 mag sources, and at the ∼100 mas
yr−1 level for W1∼17 mag sources. This level of precision represents
a 12× improvement over AllWISE. The CatWISE catalogs are available in
the WISE/NEOWISE Enhanced and Contributed Products area of the NASA/IPAC
Infrared Science Archive.Comment: 27 pages, 24 figure, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJS.
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.0890