Forced Photometry for Pan-STARRS1 Objects Based on WISE Data

Abstract

We discuss the technique and results of photometric measurements based on data from the WISE infrared survey for all Pan-STARRS1 objects under the assumption that the object coordinates are known (‘‘forced’’ photometry). The photometry has been performed by taking into account a complete point spread function model and a refined background model in the WISE survey. The fluxes or upper limits on the flux in the 3.4 and 4.6 \(\mu\)m bands have been measured for more than three billion optical objects in the northern sky at declinations \(\delta>{-}30^{\circ}\). These measurements will be used to identify galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei, and quasars in the all-sky surveys of the eROSITA and Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescopes onboard the Spektr–Roentgen–Gamma space observatory.