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Most tidal disruption events (TDEs) are currently found in time-domainoptical and soft X-ray surveys, both of which are prone to significantobscuration. The infrared (IR), however, is a powerful probe of dust-enshroudedenvironments, and hence, we recently performed a systematic search of NEOWISEmid-IR data for nearby, obscured TDEs within roughly 200 Mpc. We identified 18TDE candidates in galactic nuclei, using difference imaging to uncover nuclearvariability amongst significant host galaxy emission. These candidates wereselected based on the following IR light curve properties: (1)$L_\mathrm{W2}\gtrsim10^{42}$ erg s$^{-1}$ at peak, (2) fast rise, followed bya slow, monotonic decline, (3) no significant prior variability, and (4) noevidence for AGN activity in WISE colors. The majority of these sources showedno variable optical counterpart, suggesting that optical surveys indeed missnumerous obscured TDEs. Using narrow line ionization levels and variabilityarguments, we identified 6 sources as possible underlying AGN, yielding a totalof 12 TDEs in our gold sample. This gold sample yields a lower limit on theIR-selected TDE rate of $2.0\pm0.3\times10^{-5}$ galaxy$^{-1}$ year$^{-1}$($1.3\pm0.2\times10^{-7}$ Mpc$^{-3}$ year$^{-1}$), which is comparable tooptical and X-ray TDE rates. The IR-selected TDE host galaxies do not show agreen valley overdensity nor a preference for quiescent, Balmer stronggalaxies, which are both overrepresented in optical and X-ray TDE samples. ThisIR-selected sample represents a new population of dusty TDEs that havehistorically been missed by optical and X-ray surveys and helps alleviatetensions between observed and theoretical TDE rates and the so-called missingenergy problem.

A New Population of Mid-Infrared-Selected Tidal Disruption Events: Implications for Tidal Disruption Event Rates and Host Galaxy Properties