Herschel PACS Point Source Catalog 2 (HPPSC2) Overview
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Overview

The HPPSC2 project revisited all the photometric observations obtained by the PACS instrument on-board of the Herschel space observatory, using more advanced techniques than before, including machine learning techniques.

HPPSC2 includes a high-reliability and a rejected source catalogue for each PACS passband, i.e., at 70, 100, and 160 um. With the high-reliability catalogue, completeness in all bands is improved, especially at 70 um. At the same time, while the number of high-reliability detections decreased, the number of sources matching with existing catalogues increased, suggesting that the purity is also higher than before.

If you use HPPSC2, please cite both Marton et al. (2024) and the dataset Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for: 70 um (10.26131/IRSATBD), 100 um (10.26131/IRSATBD), 160 um (10.26131/IRSATBD), 70 um reject(10.26131/IRSATBD), 100 um reject (10.26131/IRSATBD), 160 um reject (10.26131/IRSATBD).

Data Set Characteristics

Data ProductDescriptionData Access
Catalog PACS 70, 100, and 160 micron Point Source Catalogs and Rejected Source Catalogs

HPPSC2 Documentation

DocumentationCatalog
Documentation
PACS Point Source Catalog 2 Descriptions