Bibcode
Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Bartolo, N.; Battaner, E.; Benabed, K.; Benoît, A.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; Bernard, J.-P.; Bersanelli, M.; Bielewicz, P.; Bonaldi, A.; Bonavera, L.; Bond, J. R.; Borrill, J.; Bouchet, F. R.; Boulanger, F.; Bucher, M.; Burigana, C.; Butler, R. C.; Calabrese, E.; Catalano, A.; Chamballu, A.; Chiang, H. C.; Christensen, P. R.; Clements, D. L.; Colombi, S.; Colombo, L. P. L.; Combet, C.; Couchot, F.; Coulais, A.; Crill, B. P.; Curto, A.; Cuttaia, F.; Danese, L.; Davies, R. D.; Davis, R. J.; de Bernardis, P.; de Rosa, A.; de Zotti, G.; Delabrouille, J.; Désert, F.-X.; Dickinson, C.; Diego, J. M.; Dole, H.; Donzelli, S.; Doré, O.; Douspis, M.; Ducout, A.; Dupac, X.; Efstathiou, G.; Elsner, F.; Enßlin, T. A.; Eriksen, H. K.; Falgarone, E.; Fergusson, J.; Finelli, F.; Forni, O.; Frailis, M.; Fraisse, A. A.; Franceschi, E.; Frejsel, A.; Galeotta, S.; Galli, S.; Ganga, K.; Giard, M.; Giraud-Héraud, Y.; Gjerløw, E.; González-Nuevo, J.; Górski, K. M.; Gratton, S.; Gregorio, A.; Gruppuso, A.; Gudmundsson, J. E.; Hansen, F. K.; Hanson, D.; Harrison, D. L.; Helou, G.; Henrot-Versillé, S.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Herranz, D.; Hildebrandt, S. R.; Hivon, E.; Hobson, M.; Holmes, W. A.; Hornstrup, A.; Hovest, W.; Huffenberger, K. M.; Hurier, G.; Jaffe, A. H.; Jaffe, T. R.; Jones, W. C.; Juvela, M.; Keihänen, E. et al.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 594, id.A28, 28 pp.
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Description
We present the Planck Catalogue of Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCC), an
all-sky catalogue of Galactic cold clump candidates detected by Planck.
This catalogue is the full version of the Early Cold Core (ECC)
catalogue, which was made available in 2011 with the Early Release
Compact Source Catalogue (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 catalogue is an observational catalogue consisting exclusively of
Galactic cold sources. The three highest Planck bands (857, 454, and 353
GHz) have been combined with IRAS data at 3 THz to perform a
multi-frequency detection of sources colder than their local
environment. After rejection of possible extragalactic contaminants, the
PGCC catalogue 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 14.5 K, depending on the
quality of the flux density measurements, with a temperature ranging
from 5.8 to 20 K 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 us
to derive their physical properties such as their mass, physical size,
mean density, and luminosity.The PGCC sources are located mainly in the
solar neighbourhood, but also up to a distance of 10.5 kpc in the
direction of the Galactic centre, and range from low-mass cores to large
molecular clouds. Because of this diversity and because the PGCC
catalogue contains sources in very different environments, the catalogue
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.