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Description
This table contains the all-sky Planck catalog of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources detected from the 29 month full Planck mission data. The catalog (PSZ2) is the largest SZ-selected sample of galaxy clusters yet produced and the deepest systematic all-sky survey of galaxy clusters. It contains 1,653 detections, of which 1,203 are confirmed clusters with identified counterparts in external data sets, and is the first SZ-selected cluster survey containing more than 10<sup>3</sup> confirmed clusters. In the reference paper, the authors present a detailed analysis of the survey selection function in terms of its completeness and statistical reliability, placing a lower limit of 83% on the purity. Using simulations, they find that the estimates of the SZ strength parameter Y<sub>5R500</sub> are robust to pressure-profile variation and beam systematics, but accurate conversion to Y<sub>500</sub> requires the use of prior information on the cluster extent. The authors also describe the multi-wavelength search for counterparts in ancillary data, which makes use of radio, microwave, infrared, optical, and X-ray data sets, and which places emphasis on the robustness of the counterpart match. They discuss the physical properties of the new sample and identify a population of low-redshift X-ray under-luminous clusters revealed by SZ selection. These objects appear in optical and SZ surveys with consistent properties for their mass, but they are almost absent from ROSAT X-ray selected samples. Three pipelines were used to detect SZ clusters: two independent implementations of the Matched Multi-Filter (MMF1 and MMF3) and PowellSnakes (PwS). The main catalog contained in this HEASARC table is constructed as the union of the catalogs from the three detection methods. The completeness and reliability of the catalogs have been assessed through internal and external validation as described in section 4 of the reference paper. The HEASARC has changed the names of many of the parameters from those given in the original table. In such cases we have listed the original names in parentheses at the end of the parameter descriptions given below. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2017 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/594/A27">CDS Catalog J/A+A/594/A27</a> file psz2.dat, the main (union of 3 pipelines) SZ source catalog. The source catalogs from the 3 individual pipelines are available at <a href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/594/A27/">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/594/A27/</a> as the files pszmmf1.dat, pszmmf3.dat and pszpws.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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