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Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Argüeso, F.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Bartolo, N.; Battaner, E.; Beichman, C.; Benabed, K.; Benoît, A.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; Bernard, J.-P.; Bersanelli, M.; Bielewicz, P.; Bock, J. J.; Böhringer, H.; Bonaldi, A.; Bonavera, L.; Bond, J. R.; Borrill, J.; Bouchet, F. R.; Boulanger, F.; Bucher, M.; Burigana, C.; Butler, R. C.; Calabrese, E.; Cardoso, J.-F.; Carvalho, P.; Catalano, A.; Challinor, A.; Chamballu, A.; Chary, R.-R.; Chiang, H. C.; Christensen, P. R.; Clemens, M.; Clements, D. L.; Colombi, S.; Colombo, L. P. L.; Combet, C.; Couchot, F.; Coulais, A.; Crill, B. P.; Curto, A.; Cuttaia, F.; Danese, L.; Davies, R. D.; Davis, R. J.; de Bernardis, P.; de Rosa, A.; de Zotti, G.; Delabrouille, J.; Désert, F.-X.; Dickinson, C.; Diego, J. M.; Dole, H.; Donzelli, S.; Doré, O.; Douspis, M.; Ducout, A.; Dupac, X.; Efstathiou, G.; Elsner, F.; Enßlin, T. A.; Eriksen, H. K.; Falgarone, E.; Fergusson, J.; Finelli, F.; Forni, O.; Frailis, M.; Fraisse, A. A.; Franceschi, E.; Frejsel, A.; Galeotta, S.; Galli, S.; Ganga, K.; Giard, M.; Giraud-Héraud, Y.; Gjerløw, E.; González-Nuevo, J.; Górski, K. M.; Gratton, S.; Gregorio, A.; Gruppuso, A.; Gudmundsson, J. E.; Hansen, F. K.; Hanson, D.; Harrison, D. L.; Helou, G.; Henrot-Versillé, S.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Herranz, D.; Hildebrandt, S. R.; Hivon, E.; Hobson, M.; Holmes, W. A. et al.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 594, id.A26, 39 pp.
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Description
The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources is a list of discrete
objects detected in single-frequency maps from the full duration of the
Planck mission and supersedes previous versions. It consists of compact
sources, both Galactic and extragalactic, detected over the entire sky.
Compact sources detected in the lower frequency channels are assigned to
the PCCS2, while at higher frequencies they are assigned to one of two
subcatalogues, the PCCS2 or PCCS2E, depending on their location on the
sky. The first of these (PCCS2) covers most of the sky and allows the
user to produce subsamples at higher reliabilities than the target 80%
integral reliability of the catalogue. The second (PCCS2E) contains
sources detected in sky regions where the diffuse emission makes it
difficult to quantify the reliability of the detections. Both the PCCS2
and PCCS2E include polarization measurements, in the form of polarized
flux densities, or upper limits, and orientation angles for all seven
polarization-sensitive Planck channels. The improved data-processing of
the full-mission maps and their reduced noise levels allow us to
increase the number of objects in the catalogue, improving its
completeness for the target 80% reliability as compared with the
previous versions, the PCCS and the Early Release Compact Source
Catalogue (ERCSC).