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THE FIRST HYPER-LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXY DISCOVERED BY<i>WISE</i>

THE FIRST HYPER-LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXY DISCOVERED BY<i>WISE</i>

We report the discovery by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer of the z = 2.452 source WISE J181417.29+341224.9, the first hyperluminous source found in the WISE survey. WISE 1814+3412 is also the prototype for an all-sky sample of ~1000 extremely luminous "W1W2-dropouts" (sources faint or undetected by WISE at 3.4 …