Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS) Point Source Catalog
Short Name:
HERS82CAT
Date:
18 Apr 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This study presents the first set of maps and band-merged catalog from the Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS). Observations at 250, 350, and 500 micron (µm) were taken with the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instrument onboard the Herschel Space Observatory. HerS covers 79 square degrees along the SDSS Stripe 82 to an average depth of 13.0, 12.9, and 14.8 mJy beam<sup>-1</sup> (including confusion) at 250, 350, and 500 um, respectively. HerS was designed to measure correlations with external tracers of the dark matter density field, either point-like (i.e., galaxies selected from radio to X-ray) or extended (i.e., clusters and gravitational lensing), in order to measure the bias and redshift distribution of intensities of infrared-emitting dusty star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei. By locating HerS in Stripe 82, the authors maximize the overlap with available and upcoming cosmological surveys. The band-merged catalog contains 3.3 x 10<sup>4</sup> sources detected at a significance of >~ 3 sigma (including confusion noise). The maps and catalog are available at <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/">http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/</a>. This table contains the first HerS band-merged point source catalog based on observations covering 79 deg<sup>2</sup> in the equatorial Stripe 82, spanning 13 to 37 degrees (0<sup>h</sup> 54<sup>m</sup> to 2<sup>h</sup> 24<sup>m</sup> ) in RA, and -2 to +2 degrees in Declination. The SPIRE beams are 18.1, 25.2 and 36.6 arcseconds at 250, 350 and 500 um, respectively. The band-merged catalog was constructed, after filtering, with DESPHOT (Roseboom et al. 2010, MNRAS, 409, 48), using 250-um sources (extracted with STARFINDER: Diolaiti et al. 2000, A&AS, 147, 335) as positional priors. The authors included sources with S/N greater than 3, whose completeness is estimated to be 50% (see Figure 7 of the reference paper), with a false detection rate less than 1%, and which had reasonable residuals (i.e., chi<sup>2</sup> < 10). Next, they identified obviously extended sources - 24 in total - where their extended nature resulted in them being broken up into multiple components by the filter, and removed them. This results in a catalog with 32,815 sources at 250 um, of which 13,300 and 3,276 have similarly defined 3-sigma detections at 350 and 500 um, respectively. The authors expect a false positive rate of 1.2 +/- 0.2 deg<sup>-2</sup> : thus, across the 79 deg<sup>2</sup> of HerS, they expect 96 +/- 16 spurious sources. The following local extended sources were removed: <pre> Name, RA, DEC NGC 0493,20.537458,0.945361 UGC 00890,20.283333,1.373333 UGC 00892,20.319166,-0.544491 NGC 0428,18.232125,0.981556 NGC 0799,30.551407,-0.100629 NGC 0800,30.549358,-0.130432 NGC 0450,18.876840,-0.860973 NGC 0497,20.599064,-0.875207 NGC 0867,34.269910,1.244202 UGC 01725,33.607833,1.469833 NGC 0570,22.244325,-0.948996 UGC 00711,17.153750,1.641667 UGC 00726,17.489833,-1.749694 NGC 0550,21.677292,2.022361 NGC 0585,22.9255833,-0.9333056 UGC 01123,23.533209,-1.032286 2MASX J01434929-0048547,25.955091,-0.815256 NGC 0856,33.409831,-0.717287 UGC 01698,33.082019,-0.811513 CGCG 385-007,17.256708,1.378194 UGC 00790,18.657792,1.180167 2MFGC 01002,19.930083,1.630778 2MFGC 00979,19.642792,1.747889 UGC 00847,19.768317,-0.138572 </pre> This database table was created by the HEASARC in March 2014 based on a FITS file (v2.0, uploaded Nov 18, 2013, of hers.catalogue_3sig250_no_extended.fits) containing the catalog which was obtained from the HerS web site, viz., <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/Catalogs.html">http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/Catalogs.html</a>. Some of the values for the name parameter in the HEASARC's implementation of this table were corrected in April 2018. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
