Description
The authors present the Planck Catalog of Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCC), an all-sky catalog of Galactic cold clump candidates detected by Planck. This catalog is the full version of the Early Cold Core (ECC) catalog, which was made available in 2011 with the Early Release Compact Source Catalog (ERCSC) and which contained 915 high signal-to-noise sources. It is based on the Planck 48-month mission data that are currently being released to the astronomical community. The PGCC catalog is an observational catalog consisting exclusively of Galactic cold sources. The three highest Planck bands (857, 454, and 353GHz) have been combined with IRAS data at 3THz to perform a multi-frequency detection of sources colder than their local environment. After rejection of possible extragalactic contaminants, the PGCC catalog contains 13188 Galactic sources spread across the whole sky, i.e., from the Galactic plane to high latitudes, following the spatial distribution of the main molecular cloud complexes. The median temperature of PGCC sources lies between 13 and 14.5K, depending on the quality of the flux density measurements, with a temperature ranging from 5.8 to 20K after removing the sources with the top 1% highest temperature estimates. Using seven independent methods, reliable distance estimates have been obtained for 5574 sources, which allows the authors to derive their physical properties such as their mass, physical size, mean density, and luminosity. The PGCC sources are located mainly in the solar neighborhood, but also up to a distance of 10.5kpc in the direction of the Galactic center, and range from low-mass cores to large molecular clouds. Because of this diversity and because the PGCC catalog contains sources in very different environments, the catalog is useful for investigating the evolution from molecular clouds to cores. Finally, it also includes 54 additional sources located in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. This catalog is based on three highest Planck frequency channels (i.e., 857, 545, 353 GHz), which are designed to cover the Galactic cold dust emission peak. The 217 GHz band is not included for two reasons: first, the band is contaminated by the CO J=2->1 emission line, which is expected to be significant towards dense regions; second, the contamination by the cosmic microwave background may become problematic at high latitude. The Planck data are combined with the IRIS all-sky data (Miville-Deschenes & Lagache 2005). The IRIS 3THz (100{mu}m) data were chosen to complement the Planck data because it is a good tracer of Galactic warm (~20 K) dust, among other reasons provided in the paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2019 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/594/A28">CDS Catalog J/A+A/594/A28</a> file pgcc.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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