Planck Early Results. VII. The Early Release Compact Source Catalog

Details Planck Early Results. VII. The Early Release Compact Source Catalog Planck Early Results. VII. The Early Release Compact Source Catalog

2011-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/1101.2041v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Updated to match A&A press version

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361/201116474

(Abridged) A brief description of the methodology of construction, contents and usage of the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC), including the Early Cold Cores (ECC) and the Early Sunyaev-Zeldovich (ESZ) cluster catalogue is provided. The catalogue is based on data that consist of mapping the entire sky once and 60% of the sky a second time by Planck, thereby comprising the first high sensitivity radio/submillimetre observations of the entire sky. A Monte-Carlo algorithm based on the injection and extraction of artificial sources into the Planck maps was implemented to select reliable sources among all extracted candidates such that the cumulative reliability of the catalogue is >=90%. The 10sigma photometric flux density limit of the catalogue at |b|>30 deg is 0.49, 1.0, 0.67, 0.5, 0.33, 0.28, 0.25, 0.47 and 0.82 Jy at each of the nine frequencies between 30 and 857 GHz. Sources which are up to a factor of ~2 fainter than this limit, and which are present in "clean" regions of the Galaxy where the sky background due to emission from the interstellar medium is low, are included in the ERCSC if they meet the high reliability criterion. The Planck ERCSC sources have known associations to stars with dust shells, stellar cores, radio galaxies, blazars, infrared luminous galaxies and Galactic interstellar medium features. A significant fraction of unclassified sources are also present in the catalogs. In addition, two early release catalogs that contain 915 cold molecular cloud core candidates and 189 SZ cluster candidates that have been generated using multi-frequency algorithms are presented. The entire source list, with more than 15000 unique sources, is ripe for follow-up characterisation with Herschel, ATCA, VLA, SOFIA, ALMA and other ground-based observing facilities.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Planck Early Results. VII. The Early Release Compact Source Catalog does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Planck Early Results. VII. The Early Release Compact Source Catalog, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Planck Early Results. VII. The Early Release Compact Source Catalog will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-157903