IRAS Explanatory Supplement
XII. Errata and Revisions as of 1987
A. Version 2.0 of the Point Source Catalog
Table of Contents | Index | Previous Section | Next Section
- The Flux Overestimation Correction
- Additional Flux Density Changes
- New and Deleted Sources
- Revised Completeness Estimates for Version 2.0
- Associations
- Source Names
- Revised Positional Uncertainties for Bright Sources
- Correction of Point Source Neighbor Counts
- Spurious 25 µm Only Sources
- Working Survey Data Base and Ancillary File
The most important difference between the first and second versions of the IRAS Point Source Catalog (hereafter denoted PSC-1 and PSC-2) is the application of a statistical correction to reduce the overestimation of the flux densities of sources near the detection threshold (see Section XI.J for a discussion of the effect); changes of as much as a factor of two were made for some weak sources.
A number of other, less significant changes were also made. Flux densities for almost all sources changed by a few percent due to refined calculations of certain calibration factors; a few sources changed by as much as 10%. Corrections to errors in some calibration and confused source processing algorithms resulted in the loss of 6 sources from and the addition of 56 new objects for a revised total of 245,889 individual sources in PSC-2. Table XII.A.5 lists 12 sources which were omitted from both PSC-1 and PSC-2 due to a software error, but which are of sufficient quality to be noted for completeness. A number of new catalogs were added to the list used for associations. Finally, a number of minor errors in calculations of some of the quantities associated with point sources, e.g. the number of neighboring sources, were corrected.
A.1 The Flux Overestimation Correction
As described in Chapter V, sources were extracted from individual detector streams by means of a zero-sum filter followed by a template fit to the data. Only if the detection exceeded thresholds in its signal to noise ratio (SNR) and in its correlation with the template of a "perfect" point source was the detection accepted for subsequent processing. A source was accepted into the catalog if it had enough valid detections to confirm its existence on time scales of seconds, hours and weeks. However, a failing of this strategy (as described in more detail in Section XI.J) is that the flux density of weak sources is overestimated, since the combination of weak source and positive-going noise (Gaussian excursions or spikes due to radiation hits) resulted in a "valid" detection, while the combination of a weak source and negative-going noise (Gaussian excursions) forced the detection below the acceptable thresholds. Thus, for weak sources, the detections used to form the average flux density.
Status as March 1987 | ||||
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PRODUCT | DESCRIPTION | MEDIUM | VERSION | DATE |
Explanatory Supplement | Detailed description of hardware, data processing, and products | Book | 1.0 | Nov. 1984 |
Revisions, New Chap XII, Index | Book | 2.0 | Jun. 1987 | |
Point Source Catalog | (PSC-1) 245,839 point sources | Tape, Microfiche | 1.0 | Nov. 1984 |
Tape | 1.1 | Jan. 1986 | ||
(PSC-1) 245,889 point sources | Tape | 2.0 | Nov. 1986 | |
(PSC-2). Updates described Book in this Chapter | 2.0 | Jun. 1987 | ||
Ancillary File | More detailed information on point sources | Tape | 2.0 | Nov. 1984 |
2.1 | Jan. 1986 | |||
3.0 | Nov. 1986 | |||
Working Survey Data Base | More detailed information on point sources | Tape | 2.0 | Nov. 1984 |
3.0 | Feb. 1986 | |||
4.0 (PSC-2) | Nov. 1986 | |||
High Source Density Bins | Bins processed by high source density processor for Catalog | Tape | 1.0 | Nov. 1984 |
Point Source Reject File | 372,774 rejected point sources | Tape available at IRAS data centers only | ||
Reject File | More detailed information on rejected point sources | |||
Ancillary File | ||||
Reject File | ||||
Working Survey Data Base | ||||
LRS Spectra Catalog | Spectra of 5,425 catalog point sources (8-22 µm). See XII.C | Tape, Hard Copy | 1.0 | Nov.1984 |
Zodiacal History | Time-ordered data at 0.5 degree resolution | Tape | 1.0 | Nov. 1987 |
2.0 | May 1986 | |||
All Sky Maps | All sky images at 0.5 degree resolution | Tape | 1.0 | Nov.1984 |
Sky Brightness images (HCON 3) | 16° × 16° 2' Resolution | B/W, Color Negatives | 1.0 | Nov.1984 |
(Sept-Nov)a | ||||
B/W Negatives | 2.0 | May 1986 | ||
(Dec.1985)a | ||||
Tapes | 2.0 | May 1986 | ||
(Mar.1986)a | ||||
Sky Brightness Images (HCON 1) | 16° × 16° field 2' Resolution | B/W Negatives | 1.0 | Aug.1985 |
(Feb-Apr)a | ||||
Tapes | 1.0 | Aug 1985 | ||
(May 1985)a | ||||
Sky Brightness Images (HCON 2) | 16° × 16° field 2' Resolution | B/W Negatives | 1.0 | June 1986 |
(Apr 1986)a | ||||
Tapes | 1.0 | June 1986 | ||
Sky Brightness | 16° × 16° field | B/W Negatives Images (Overlays) | 1.0 | Nov. 1984 |
Galactic Plane Images (HCON 3) | 2° × 15° field 2' resolution | B/W Negatives, Tapes | 1.0 | Jan. 1985 |
2.0 | July 1986 | |||
Galactic Plane Images (HCON 1) | 2° × 15° field 2' resolution | B/W Negatives, Tapes | 1.0 | Oct. 1985 |
Galactic Plane Images (HCON 2) | 2° × 15° field 2' resolution | B/W Negatives, Tapes | 1.0 | Jul.1986 |
Cataloged Galaxies and Quasars | 11,444 point sources associated with cataloged galaxies and quasars | Book | 1.0 | Feb.1985 |
Pointed Observations | 13,853 images with 0.25'-1.0 resolution, each covering ~ 1 square degree | Tapes | 1.0 | Oct.1985 |
Pointed Observations User's Guide b | Description of AO's, data reduction, and released grids | Book | 1.0 | Nov.1985 |
Serendipitous Survey Explanatory Supplement c | Description of Catalog | Book | 1.0 | Dec.1986 |
Serendipitous Survey Catalog | 43,866 point sources derived from the Additional Observations | Tape, micro-fiche | 1.0 | Dec.1986 |
Small Scale Structure Catalog Explanatory Supplement | Description of Catalog | Book | 1.0 | Dec. 1985 |
Mar. 1987 | ||||
Small Scale Structure Catalog | 16,740 sources with sizes < 8' | Tape, Microfiche | 1.0 | Dec. 1985 |
Book | Mar. 1987 | |||
CPC Explanatory Supplement | Detailed description of CPC hardware, data, processing, and products | Book | 1.0 | Aug. 1985 |
CPC data | Chopped photometric channel image data | 3 tapes | 1.0 | Jan. 1986 |
IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey | IRAS and derived data on known asteroids | Tape | 1.0 | Oct. 1986 |
IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey Explanatory Supplement | Description of Catalog and Summary Information | Book | 1.0 | Oct. 1986 |
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Figure XII.A.1 Ratio of SSC to PSC-1 (a) or PSC-2 (b) 12 µm flux
densities vs. SSC flux density before (a) and after (b) the correction
of the overestimation effect. larger largest |
A simple model for the overestimation described in Section XI.J leads to an algorithm for the correction of the effect. Consider a detector stream with an intrinsic Gaussian noise level (X) and a source with an intrinsic brightness of n(X). The zeroth moment of the Gaussian distribution above the threshold of m(x) for a source with true flux n(X) gives the probability of detection (Eqn. XI.J.1) and the first moment above m(X) gives the observed flux (Eqn. XI.J.2). These moments were used to relate the flux correction factor to the observed fraction of possible sightings for a given source.
The algorithm was implemented in the following manner. The Working Survey Data Base (WSDB) contains the number, N, of all accepted detections. If the total number of possible detections is denoted by M, then the ratio N/M is an estimate of the probability of detection, denoted by p, which can be used in Equation XI.J.1 to estimate the quantity n - m. This value can be used with Equation XI.J.3 to derive the ratio n'/n which is an estimate of the amount by which the true brightness of the source was overestimated in PSC-1.
For each source fainter than a certain, band-dependent level (2 Jy at 12, 25 and 60 µm and 3 Jy at 100 µm), the number of accepted detections, N, was determined from the WSDB. At the same time the total number of possible detections, M, was determined from a detailed calculation of the satellite's pointing history over the entire mission. If the source passed within the central portion of a working detector then a possible sighting was recorded. The central portion of the detector was defined by a distance in from the edge of the detector and was considered a free parameter, denoted by (X)Z, in each band; the value of this parameter affected the number of possible detections for a given source. The resultant value of N/M was used along with an estimate of the cutoff threshold, m, in that band to derive the correction factor as described above.
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Figure XII.A.2 Ratio of SSC to PSC-1 (a) or PSC-2 (b) 25 µm flux
densities vs. SSC flux density before (a) and after (b) the correction
of the overestimation effect. larger largest |
The SSC data represented in Figure XII.A.1a-4a were assumed to give the true brightness for faint sources and were used to adjust the parameters (X)Z and m on a band by band basis to make the curves as flat as possible. The algorithm was applied only to those sources which were neither confused nor located in regions of high source density in a given band. Approximately 100,000 sources were adjusted in at least one wavelength. Values of (X)Z and m and the maximum derived correction factors are given in Table XII.A.2.
Wavelength (µm) | m | (X)Z (') | Max. Correction |
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12 | 4 | 0.2 | 1.72 |
25 | 2 | 0.1 | 3.00 |
60 | 3 | 0.7 | 2.01 |
100 | 3 | 1.0 | 2.38 |
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Figure XII.A.3 Ratio of SSC to PSC-1 (a) or PSC-2 (b) 60 µm flux
densities vs. SSC flux density before (a) and after (b) the correction
of the overestimation effect. larger largest |
The photometric uncertainty associated with each flux was also adjusted slightly by examining how uncertainties in the pointing of the telescope could affect the number of possible sightings. Variations in the N/M ratio were propagated through Eqn. XI.J.1 and XI.J.3 and the resulting uncertainty added in quadrature to the uncertainty already given in the catalog.
The above formalism obviously ignores many complications such as differing sensitivities among the detectors within a band and non-Gaussian noise sources like radiation hits and cirrus which could increase a source's flux on some occasions, but not others. Detections could have fallen below thresholds for any number of reasons including sightings by a detector of poor sensitivity or passage over the edge of a detector rather than over its center. A sighting could have been rejected for failing to exceed either the SNR or template thresholds. All of these effects were ignored in the above algorithm. As a result, although the corrections are quite good in a statistical sense, they may be considerably in error in any individual case.
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Figure XII.A.4 Ratio of SSC to PSC-1 (a) or PSC-2 (b) 100 µm flux
densities vs. SSC flux density before (a) and after (b) the correction
of the overestimation effect. larger largest |
Figure XII.A.5 shows the effect of the flux overestimation on the photometry for weak sources in PSC-1 and the effectiveness of the correction applied in the generation of PSC-2. The figure plots the 12/25 µm color of stars as a function of their 12 µm brightness. In Figure XII.A.5a the flux density ratio comes from PSC-1 and the 12 µm brightness from the SSC. Above about 2 Jy a distinct populationof stars with colors characteristic of hot (>3000 K) photospheres is apparent, but below 2 Jy the population of stars with photospheric colors disappears and all stars appear to have a 25 µm excess. This astrophysically puzzling result can be understood terms of the 25 µm flux being systematically overestimated for faint stars. The corrected colors from PSC-2 (Fig. XII.A.5.b) reveals a distinct population of stars with normal photospheres at faint levels.
As a result of this correction algorithm, the machine readable version of PSC-2 includes five new fields: MHCON, the number of possible hours confirmed sightings a source could have had and the four band dependent correction factors that were applied to the PSC-1 flux densities to produce the PSC-2 fluxes. These quantities are given only for those sources for which a flux overestimation correction was made. It should be noted that the value of MHCON for any given source could be uncertain by one or two sightings.
The format of the Catalog tape has been revised to incorporate these new quantities. Table XII.A.3 lists the changes to the original format (Table X.B.1).
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Figure XII.A.5 Ratio of 12 µm to 25 µm flux densities from the
PSC-1 (a) or PSC-2 (b) vs.12 µm flux density from the SSC before
(a) and after (b) the correction of the overestimation effect. larger largest |
Byte | Name | Description | Units | Format |
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139 | MHCON | Possible number of HCONs | --- | I*2 |
141 | FCOR | Flux Correction Factors Applied (x 1000) (1 value per band) | --- | 4I*4 |
149 | SPARE | 3 Spare bytes | --- | 3A*1 |
A.2 Additional Flux Density Changes
Flux densities for all sources in the PSC-2 were adjusted by a few percent to make them consistent with the final calibration described in Chapter VI. The differences arose because PSC-1 used a preliminary version of the all-sky intensity maps to correct for the non-linearities of the feedback resistor (Section VI.A.5). Also, as a result of this change, minimum upper limit fluxes are now exactly 0.25, 0.25, 0.40, and 1.0 Jy, instead of varying by a few percent from these values.
In two areas of the sky, from 0° to 29° ecliptic longitude at -90° to 67° latitude and at 60° to 65° latitude, flux densities reported in PSC-1 were factors of 1.076, 1.099, 1.013, and 0.967 too high at 12, 25, 60 and 100 um, respectively. Approximately 1% of all sources were affected by this error which has been corrected in PSC-2.
A.3 New and Deleted Sources
A number of effects changed the total number of point sources present in PSC-2. First, six sources present in PSC-l were deleted from PSC-2 because the small flux changes mentioned above pushed the fluxes for these sources below a threshold used by the high source density processor. Second, fiftysix sources were added to PSC-2 because the very near neighbor window was set incorrectly in parts of the production of PSC-l. Thus. the total number of sources in PSC-2 is 245,889. The names of the changed sources are given in Table XII.A.4.
Finally, a software error, discovered after the release of PSC-2, led to the exclusion of a small number of sources from both PSC-1 and PSC-2. Examination of the Working Survey Data Base (WSDB) led to the discovery of sources with similar fluxes located within ± 30" in-scan and ± 90" cross-scan of one another. In each case only a single hours confirmed sighting was reported for each object. Evidently, the weeks confirmation software failed to confirm and merge these objects into a single source which would then have appeared in the catalog.
New Sources | |||
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01241-7332 | 05265-6840 | 08220-4404 | 18373-0918 |
04531-6708 | 05299-6830 | 08573-4718 | 19514+4306 |
04532-6710 | 05303-6951 | 09040-7402 | 21097+4953 |
04534-6657 | 05305-6952 | 09101-5100 | 21099+4954 |
05044-7012 | 05341-6632 | 09179-7034 | 21314+5805 |
05046-7014 | 05371-6944 | 09215-7028 | 21329+5126 |
05122-6829 | 05374-6946 | 09437-6034 | 21345+5706 |
05150-6629 | 05375-6650 | 10075-5747 | 21445+5653 |
05150-6631 | 05392-6847 | 10075-5824 | 21446+5655 |
05207-6636 | 05393-6930 | 10182-5742 | 21478+5649 |
05236-6702 | 05448-6720 | 12376-6122 | 22126+6905 |
05239-6939 | 05486-7001 | 13191-6245 | 22299+6440 |
05242-6940 | 08003-5012 | 18092+4419 | 22510+7138 |
05264-6730 | 08005-5013 | 18285-0830 | 22512+7140 |
Deleted Sources | |||
04526-6951 | 13046-6222 | 20250+4316 | 21503+5105 |
04538-6952 | 15574-0052 |
A procedure was developed for finding these objects systematically in the WSDB. First, the WSDB was searched for all sources with only one hours confirmed sighting, located above an absolute galactic latitude of 10° and above an ecliptic latitude of -80° (to avoid the Large Magellanic Cloud). Second, sources detected only at 25 µm or only at 100 µm were eliminated to avoid contamination by asteroids or cirrus. This sample was examined for objects having companions within ± 30" in-scan and ± 90" cross-scan. Those objects with nearby companions and meeting the final catalog selection criteria (Sections V.H.2 and V.H.7) were taking as real objects. A final position was derived by simply averaging the position from each sighting; final flux densities were computed by averaging the logarithms of the flux densities without using any weights.
Forty-three objects were selected by this procedure. Examination of the raw data led to the elimination of seven of these 43 as being due to either cirrus or confused objects. Finally, to avoid any problems of source reliability or flux overestimation only sources with a flux density greater than 1 Jy in at least one band were selected for inclusion in Table XII.A.5. The format of the table is similar to that of the printed version of the catalog, as described in Section X.B.2. It should be emphasized that these sources appear only in the table and are not included in the printed or machine readable versions of either PSC-1 or PSC-2.
Name | Gal Coord | Flux Density in Janskys (Not Color-Corrected) | N | C | Association | MAG | |||||||||
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HHMMT DDMM | (s) | (") | 1 b | NH | 12µm | 25µm | 60µm | 100µm | C | P | S | I | A | Name & Type | |
00125-0723 | 33.5 | 10 | 98-68 | 2 | .25L | .44L | 1.46 | 4.62 | 0 | 1 | 10 M+04-28-050 | 999 | |||
11434+2042 | 26.3 | 50 | 234+74 | 2 | .25L | .46: | 3.19: | 6.45 | 1 | 2 | 10 U07772 | 103 | |||
12337+2616 | 47.4 | 51 | 230+86 | 2 | .52: | .53 | 4.50 | 23.31 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 9 | D0 20951 | 1 |
21492+3716 | 13.4 | 1 | 88-12 | 2 | .36: | .25L | .48 | 2.95 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3746 | K0 | 67 |
22261+8025 | 9.1 | 59 | 117+20 | 2 | 1.01 | .28L | .40L | 1.63L | 7 | 1 | 13 | 52130 K0 | 77 | ||
22308+4105 | 50.3 | 26 | 97-14 | 2 | 2.05 | .54 | .40L | 6.60L | 3 | 2 | 13 | MKN 914 | 999 | ||
22324+4024 | 28.4 | 35 | 97-15 | 2 | 4.43 | 18.49 | 29.10 | 64.39 | 12 | 2 | 27 | X2232+408 | 4 | ||
22325+4054 | 32.0 | 25 | 97-15 | 2 | .25L | .26L | 1.08 | 7.01 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 32 | DG 187 | 999 |
22326+4031 | 37.8 | 9 | 97-15 | 2 | .41L | .25L | 1.10 | 7.33L | 9 | 1 | 23 | ||||
22376+2426 | 36.8 | 3 | 89-29 | 2 | .29L | .25L | 1.05 | 2.68 | 0 | ||||||
23019+3405 | 57.7 | 32 | 99-23 | 2 | .25L | .25L | 1.45 | 2.50 | 0 | ||||||
23132+2449 | 14.4 | 12 | 97-33 | 2 | .25L | .25L | .48 | 1.35 | 4 | 3 | 9 | U12460 | 155 |
A.4 Revised Completeness Estimates for PSC-2
The completeness of PSC-2 was investigated in two different ways. First, PSC-2 was internally checked through analysis of the differential source counts. Second, PSC-2 was externally checked against the SSC which is complete to significantly fainter flux densities than PSC-2. Results from both methods corroborate the general statements made in Chapter VIII that the survey (PSC-1 or PSC-2) is complete, in unconfused regions of the sky, to 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 and 1.0 Jy at 12, 25, 60, and 100 µm.
PSC-1 and PSC-1 differ in the flux density level associated with a given completeness level. Figures XII.A.6a,b show the differential log N/log S curves for 12 and 60 µm for PSC-1 and PSC-2 at high Galactic latitudes covered with two sets of hours confirming scans. Because of the correction for flux overestimation, the peak of the curves is broader in PSC-2 than in PSC-1. The shapes of the curves implies that PSC-2 has more weak sources than PSC-1, but that those sources are very incompletely represented e.g., ~10% completeness at 0.3 Jy at 12µm. At the same time, PSC-2 does not achieve a 90% completeness level until slightly higher flux density than PSC-1.
Tables XII.6a,b summarize the flux densities at which a given completeness is reached derived from the source counts in PSC-1 and PSC-2. Values are given for regions with both two or three sets of hours confirming scans (2 or 3 HCONs). To the extent that the flux overestimation algorithm was successful, the table for PSC-2 reflects the true completeness of the IRAS survey as a function of flux density. Note that while it is quite accurate to derive the completeness from the logN/logS curves below completeness levels of about 50%, it is difficult to derive accurate estimates above that level. Thus the flux density values at completeness levels of 90% and 95% are indicated in the tables as uncertain.
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Figure XII.A.6 a) The differential sources counts versus 12 µm
flux density for PSC-1 (dashed line) and PSC-2 (solid line). b) The differential source counts versus 60 µm
flux density for PSC-1 (dashed line) and PSC-2 (solid line). larger largest |
Flux Density (Jy) | ||||
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Completeness | 2 HCON sky | 3 HCON sky | ||
(%) | 12 µm | 60µm | 12 µm | 60 µm |
95 | [.42]* | [.59] | [.38] | [.52] |
90 | [.40] | [.56] | [.36] | [.50] |
50 | .33 | .47 | .32 | .44 |
10 | .29 | .40 | .29 | .39 |
5 | .28 | .37 | .28 | .38 |
* Numbers in brackets are uncertain |
Flux Density (Jy) | ||||
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Completeness | 2 HCON sky | 3 HCON sky | ||
(%) | 12 µm | 60µm | 12 µm | 60 µm |
95 | [.47]* | [.60] | [.46] | [.60] |
90 | [.44] | [.59] | [.44] | [.57] |
50 | .35 | .48 | .30 | .45 |
10 | .24 | .38 | .23 | .33 |
5 | .22 | .34 | .22 | .30 |
* Numbers in brackets are uncertain |
The second way to evaluate the completeness of the survey
is to use the SSC, which, as discussed above, reaches three to
five times fainter than the survey. A comparison was made of
all SSC sources at Galactic latitudes (X) > 30° and
(X) -50° (to avoid the Magellanic Clouds).
The SSC sources were divided into stars [fv(12µm)
> fv(25µm) and fv(12µm)
> fv(60µm)] and galaxies
[fv(12µm) < fv(60µm)], in
order to isolate the 12 and 60 µm bands as much as possible. A search
radius of 120" was used to find counterparts in PSC-2.
Tables XII.A.7a,b summarize the
completeness derived from the percentage of SSC sources that were found in
PSC-2 for both the 2 and 3 HCON sky at 12 and 60 µm. Given in
the table are the number of actual objects in PSC-2 (denoted N')
compared with the possible number of objects (denoted M') found
in the more complete SSC.
As a check on the consistency of these two approaches and on the agreement of the results in the 2 and 3 HCON sky areas, all the above numbers can be converted to an estimate of the completeness of a single HCON and plotted on the same graph. To do so, recall from Chapter VII that in terms of the single HCON completeness C (= 1 - p), the completeness of the PSC in the 2 HCON is C2 and in the 3 HCON sky is C2(3 - 2C).
Figures XII.A.7a,b show the single HCON completeness at 12 and 60 µm. There is good agreement between the logN/logS and the SSC vs PSC-2 results. In addition, the numbers from the 2 HCON sky and the 3 HCON sky are also consistent. However, the 12 µm results are significantly different from the results shown in Figure VIII.D.1 derived from sources in the minisurvey. Because those sources were in the 7 HCON sky, they suffered tremendously from the effects of flux overestimation. This results in a shift of the minisurvey completeness curves to erroneously higher flux densities. Table XII.A.8 summarizes the Catalog completeness at 12 and 60 µm as derived from the curves shown in Figure XII.A.6a,b.
Flux density (Jy) | 2 HCON sky | 3 HCON sky | ||||
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N' | M' | Completeness | N' | M' | Completeness | |
0.50-0.55 | 6 | 6 | 1.00 | 16 | 16 | 1.00 |
0.45-0.50 | 4 | 5 | .80 | 18 | 18 | 1.00 |
0.40-0.45 | 13 | 15 | .87 | 17 | 17 | 1.00 |
0.35-0.40 | 7 | 11 | .64 | 15 | 15 | 1.00 |
0.30-0.35 | 8 | 17 | .47 | 15 | 23 | .65 |
0.25-0.30 | 6 | 24 | .25 | 24 | 39 | .62 |
0.20-0.25 | 3 | 26 | .12 | 4 | 50 | .08 |
Flux density (Jy) | 2 HCON sky | 3 HCON sky | ||||
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N' | M' | Completeness | N' | M' | Completeness | |
0.60-0.65 | 14 | 17 | .82 | 11 | 11 | 1.00 |
0.55-0.60 | 10 | 13 | .77 | 17 | 20 | .85 |
0.50-0.55 | 14 | 25 | .56 | 20 | 24 | .83 |
0.45-0.50 | 8 | 22 | .36 | 18 | 29 | .62 |
0.40-0.45 | 5 | 29 | .17 | 14 | 35 | .40 |
0.35-0.40 | 4 | 36 | .11 | 13 | 66 | .20 |
0.30-0.35 | 5 | 49 | .10 | 10 | 70 | .14 |
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Figure XII.A.7 a) The single HCON completeness versus 12 µm flux
density. A smooth solid line has been drawn through the data.
The other solid line is from the 2 HCON SSC results, the dashed
line from the 3 HCON SSC results, the solid points from the 2
HCON logN/logS results, and the open points from the 3 HCON
logN/logS results. Uncertain points are in parentheses. larger largest |
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b) The single HCON completeness versus 60 µm flux
density. The smooth solid line has been drawn through the data.
The other solid line is from the 2 HCON SSC results, the dashed
line from the 3 HCON SSC results, the solid points from the 2
HCON logN/logS results, and the open points from the 3 HCON
logN/logS results. Uncertain points are in parentheses. larger largest |
Completeness | 2 HCON sky | 3 HCON sky | ||
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(%) | 12 µm | 60 µm | 12 µm | 60 µm |
95 | .46 | .65 | .41 | .58 |
90 | .45 | .64 | .38 | .56 |
75 | .41 | .59 | .34 | .51 |
50 | .35 | .52 | .29 | .45 |
25 | .29 | .45 | .25 | .38 |
10 | .25 | .38 | .23 | .32 |
5 | .23 | .34 | .22 | .30 |
A.5 Associations
The PSC-2 contains associations with sources in four additional catalogs not used in the preparation of PSC-1: the IRAS Small Structure Catalog, the IRAS Serendipitous Survey Catalog, the OSU catalog of radio sources and the Michigan Spectral Catalog. Parameters for these new catalogs are given in revised versions of Tables V.H.1 and X.B.4. These catalogs were added at the end of the queue for the printing priority in the printed version of the PSC. However, in the printed version of PSC-2, an asterisk in the column giving the number of associations (NID) denotes an association of a PSC-2 source with an object in the Serendipitous Survey Catalog.
There was an error in associating PSC-1 sources with stars in the Gliese catalog since the proper motion in right ascension was erroneously taken as seconds of arc per year instead of seconds of time per year. Remedying this error resulted in the addition of 37 associations in PSC-2 and the deletion of five associations originally presented in PSC-1. The changed associations are given in Table XII.A.9.
The ESO/Uppsala Catalog, catalog 14, was previously given a "multiple" classification instead of "other". This has been corrected in PSC-2.
Newly Associated Sources | |||
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00027-3737 | 01365-1812 | 06562-44l3 | 16451-4737 |
00156+4344 | 01416-1611 | 08053+6952 | 16564+4726 |
00176-6509 | 01504-2240 | 11027+4347 | 17023-0459 |
00235-773l | 02085-5103 | 13275+l038 | 20017+2312 |
00295+6657 | 02334+0639 | 13432+1508 | 20542-4419 |
00348-2502 | 03168-6245 | 13469-2151 | 21141-3904 |
00461+5732 | 03172-6241 | 14006-4634 | 21598-5700 |
00589+7124 | 03180-4315 | 14260-6227 | 22070-0452 |
01051+5439 | 05100-4502 | 14359-6031 | 23029-3607 |
23110+5653 | |||
Sources No Longer Associated | |||
07483+8023 | 08355-3958 | 16267+1831 | 19145+0505 |
21362-2732 |
Newly Associated Sources | |||
---|---|---|---|
17167-3229 | 17370-3843 | 18311-1734 | 18402-7755 |
17326-3324 | 17510-3726 | ||
Sources No Longer Associated | |||
16516-6705 | 17337-0220 | 17458-0937 | 17555+3324 |
17236-2125 | 17394+2611 | 17519-3035 | 17557+3351 |
A.6 Source Names
Source names were derived from the equatorial position by taking the hours, minutes and tenths of minutes (truncated, not rounded) of right ascension as well as the sign, degrees, and minutes of declination. For example a source at (X) = 12h 32m 15.5s and (X) = -15° 20' 15" has the name 12222-1520. Separate sources which would have been given the same name based on the above scheme were distinguished from one another by appending letters of the alphabet to their name. It should be noted that since sources were named before the decision to retain them in the catalog was made, it is possible that not all of the sources with names distinguished only by a letter will be present in the Catalog, e.g. 12222-1520B might be in the catalog, but not 1222-1520A.
A.7 Revised Positional Uncertainties for Bright Sources
As described in the Section VII.C.1.b, an additional 3" was supposed to be added in quadrature to the in-scan uncertainty of sources that were both faint and had the minimum possible (1") in-scan uncertainty. That correction was inadvertently applied in PSC-1 to all sources, faint and bright, with the minimum uncertainty. PSC-2 corrects this problem and has 84,287 sources with this increased uncertainty, as opposed to 144,403 sources in PSC-1. The minimum uncertainty ellipse is now 3" × 5", as opposed to 3" × 7".
A.8 Correction of Point Source Neighbor Counts
In PSC-1 the counts of hours and weeks confirmed neighbors, denoted PNEARH and PNEARW, of a given source are in error for objects near which a forced weeks confirmation took place (Section V.H.3). This problem has been fixed for PSC-2.
A.9. Spurious 25 µm Only Sources
The following three sources have been found to be spurious on the basis of examination of co-added detector data, but were left in the catalog since no general rule could be used to delete them. They are: 05570-6722, 08291-6146, and 18021+6556. The first and third sources were produced by noise and radiation hits; the second resulted just from noise.
A.10 Working Survey Data Base, Ancillary File and Reject Files
The version of the WSDB corresponding to PSC-2 is 4.0 (Nov. 1986) and differs from 3.0 only in the revised number of sources in the catalog described above (56 additions, 6 deletions). Version 3.0 (Feb. 1986) corrected a calibration error in the flux densities of individual HCON sightings. Version 2.0 was the first publicly released version of the WSDB.
Two errors were remedied in Version 3.0 of the Ancillary file. First, the "fault" byte in HSDDROC (see Table X.B.7c) was incorrect for a small number of sources due to the incorrect very near neighbor window. This is now corrected. Second, the first publicly released version of the Ancillary File (version 2.0) contained associations with the weeks-confirmed file for the Small Scale Structure Catalog: only about half of these weeks-confirmed sources survived to the final SSS catalog. The hex coding of the bands in which an extended source was detected was calculated incorrectly. These problems have been fixed in version 3.0 of the Ancillary File.
Listings of point sources that failed the catalog selection criteria, e.g., confusion or insufficient number of HCONs, were not publicly released, but are available from the IRAS data center in Pasadena.
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