Catalogues

NOTE: Text in red to be removed when filling the contents Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources

Product description

A general description of the product, including e.g. figures related to the contents (e.g. maps, tables), and some explanation of its scientific meaning. If there are scientific warnings about the use of the product (User’s caveats), they should also be given here, or at least references to other explanatory documents (papers etc).

see pccs paper: 1. numb. sources / freq, 2. image with sky distribution 3. main parameters used

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Production process

Description of the Pipeline used to generate the product. In particular any limitations and approximations used in the data processing should be listed. Avoiding detailed descriptions of methods and referring to other parts of the ES and/or the relevant Planck papers for the details. References however should be quite detailed (i.e. it is not enough to direct the user to a paper, but the relevant section in the paper should be provided).

For a description of the production process of the Compact Source catalogue see the corresponding section.

Inputs

A list (and brief description to the extent possible) of the input data used to generate this product (down to file names), as well as any external ancillary data sets which were used.

Related products

A description of other products that are related and share some commonalities with the product being described here. E.g. if the description is of a generic product (e.g. frequency maps), all the products falling into that type should be listed and referenced.

link to pages with other catalogues

Meta Data

A detailed description of the data format of each file, including header keywords for fits files, extension names, column names, formats….

Extensions

Note 1.- Source name designations consist of a prefix and a positional qualifier, the latter is in Galactic coordinates and specified as "Glll.ll±bb.bb" where the (l,b) values are truncated. The prefix used in the single band portion of the PCCS is PLCKddd PCCS catalogue at ddd GHz.

For example, a source detected at (l,b) = (120.237, 4.231) in the 545 GHz Planck map would be labelled PLCK545 G120.23±04.23.

Note 2.- The EXTENDED flag has the value of 0 if the source is compact and the value of 1 is it extended. The source size is determined by the geometric mean of the Gaussian fit FWHMs, with the criteria for extension being sqrt(GAU_FWHMMAJ * GAU_FWHMIN) > 1.5 times the beam FWHM.

Note 3.- The EXT_VAL flag has the value of 0, 1, or 2, based on the following conditions:

• 2 – The source has a clear counterpart in one of the catalogues considered as ancillary data.
• 1 – The source has NOT a clear counterpart in one of the catalogues considered as ancillary data but it has been detected by the internal multi-frequency method.
• 0 – The source has NOT a clear counterpart in one of the catalogues considered as ancillary data and it has NOT been detected by the internal multi-frequency method.

The PCCS source list in each frequency is structured as a FITS binary table having one row for each detected source.

Keywords

The FITS primary header will have the following structure:

FITS primary header

FITS Keyword	Data Type	Units	Description
INSTRUME	String		LFI or HFI
VERSION	String		Version of PCCS
DATE	String		Date file created:yyyy-mm-dd
ORIGIN	String		Name of organization responsible for the data (LFI-DPC – HFI-DPC)
TELESCOP	String		PLANCK
CREATOR	String		Pipeline Version
DATE-OBS	String	days	Start-up time of the survey: yyyy-mm-dd
DATE-END	String	days	Ending time of the survey: yyyy-mm-dd

The Fits extension is composed by several columns described below:

FITS header

Column Name	Data Type	Units	Description
Identification
NAME	String		Source name – see Note 1
Source Position
GLON	Real*8	degrees	Galactic longitude based on extraction algorithm
GLAT	Real*8	degrees	Galactic latitude based on extraction algorithm
RA	Real*8	degrees	Right ascension (J2000) transformed from (GLON,GLAT)
DEC	Real*8	degrees	Declination (J2000) transformed from (GLON,GLAT)
Photometry
DETFLUX	Real*4	mJy	Flux density of source as determined by detection method
DETFLUX_ERR	Real*4	mJy	Uncertainty (1 sigma) in derived flux density from detection method
APERFLUX	Real*4	mJy	Flux density of source as determined from the aperture photometry
APERFLUX_ERR	Real*4	mJy	Uncertainty (1 sigma) in derived flux density from the aperture photometry
PSFFLUX	Real*4	mJy	Flux density of source as determined from PSF fitting
PSFFLUX_ERR	Real*4	mJy	Uncertainty (1 sigma) in derived flux density from PSF fitting
GAUFLUX	Real*4	mJy	Flux density of source as determined from 2-D Gaussian fitting
GAUFLUX_ERR	Real*4	mJy	Uncertainty (1 sigma) in derived flux density from 2-D Gaussian fitting
GAU_SEMI1	Real*4	arcmin	Gaussian fit along axis 1
GAU_SEMI1_ERR	Real*4	arcmin	Uncertainty (1 sigma) in derived Gaussian fit along axis 1
GAU_SEMI2	Real*4	arcmin	Gaussian fit along axis 2
GAU_SEMI2_ERR	Real*4	arcmin	Uncertainty (1 sigma) in derived Gaussian fit along axis 2
GAU_THETA	Real*4	deg	Gaussian fit orientation angle counting anti-clockwise from the x -axis
GAU_THETA_ERR	Real*4	deg	Uncertainty (1 sigma) in derived gaussian fit orientation angle
GAU_FWHM_EFF	Real*4	arcmin	Gaussian fit effective FWHM
Flags and validation
EXTENDED	Integer*2		Flag indicated that source is extended
CIRRUS_N	Integer*4		Number of sources detected at 857 GHz within HFI TBC degrees
EXT_VAL	Integer*2		Flag indicated external validation - see Note 2
ERCSC	String		Name of the ERCSC counterpart if any
ONLY 857 GHz Catalogue
APERFLUX_217	Real*4	mJy	Source flux density at 217 GHz (best estimation) of the object detected at 857
APERFLUX_ERR_217	Real*4	mJy	Uncertainty in source flux density
APERFLUX_353	Real*4	mJy	Source flux density at 353 GHz (best estimation) of the object detected at 857
APERFLUX_ERR_353	Real*4	mJy	Uncertainty in source flux density
APERFLUX_545	Real*4	mJy	Source flux density at 545 GHz (best estimation) of the object detected at 857
APERFLUX_ERR_545	Real*4	mJy	Uncertainty in source flux density

Numerical Format

Mark or Nabila to give brief description

AMo to add file structure

Early Release Compact Source Catalogue

see ERCSC