Planck 2013 results. XXIX. The Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources

The development of Planck has been supported by: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MICINN, JA and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); and PRACE (EU). A description of the Planck Collaboration and a list of its members, including the technical or scientific activities in which they have been involved, can be found at http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=planck &page=Planck_Collaboration. The authors thank N. Schartel, ESA XMM-Newton project scientist, for granting the Director Discretionary Time used for confirmation of SZ Planck candidates. The authors thank TUBITAK, IKI, KFU and AST for support in using RTT150 (Russian-Turkish 1.5-m telescope, Bakyrlytepe, Turkey); in particular we thank KFU and IKI for providing significant amount of their observing time at RTT150. We also thank BTA 6-m telescope Time Allocation Committee (TAC) for support of optical follow-up project. The authors acknowledge the use of the INT and WHT telescopes operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC); the Nordic Optical Telescope, operated on La Palma jointly by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the IAC; the TNG telescope, operated on La Palma by the Fundacion Galileo Galilei of the INAF at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the IAC; the GTC telescope, operated on La Palma by the IAC at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the IAC; and the IAC80 telescope operated on the island of Tenerife by the IAC at the Spanish Observatorio del Teide of the IAC. Part of this research has been carried out with telescope time awarded by the CCI International Time Programme. The authors thank the TAC of the MPG/ESO-2.2 m telescope for support of optical follow-up with WFI under Max Planck time. Observations were also conducted with ESO NTT at the La Silla Paranal Observatory. This research has made use of SDSS-III data. Funding for SDSS-III http://www.sdss3.org/ has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and DoE. SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration. This research has made use of the following databases: the NED and IRSA databases, operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the NASA; SIMBAD, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France; SZ cluster database operated by Integrated Data and Operation Center (IDOC) operated by IAS under contract with CNES and CNRS. The authors acknowledge the use of software provided by the US National Virtual Observatory.
We describe the all-sky Planck catalogue of clusters and cluster candidates derived from Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect detections using the first 15.5 months of Planck satellite observations. The catalogue contains 1227 entries, making it over six times the size of the Planck Early SZ (ESZ) sample and the largest SZ-selected catalogue to date. It contains 861 confirmed clusters, of which 178 have been confirmed as clusters, mostly through follow-up observations, and a further 683 are previously-known clusters. The remaining 366 have the status of cluster candidates, and we divide them into three classes according to the quality of evidence that they are likely to be true clusters. The Planck SZ catalogue is the deepest all-sky cluster catalogue, with redshifts up to about one, and spans the broadest cluster mass range from (0.1 to 1.6) × 1015 M⊙. Confirmation of cluster candidates through comparison with existing surveys or cluster catalogues is extensively described, as is the statistical characterization of the catalogue in terms of completeness and statistical reliability. The outputs of the validation process are provided as additional information. This gives, in particular, an ensemble of 813 cluster redshifts, and for all these Planck clusters we also include a mass estimated from a newly-proposed SZ-mass proxy. A refined measure of the SZ Compton parameter for the clusters with X-ray counter-parts is provided, as is an X-ray flux for all the Planck clusters not previously detected in X-ray surveys.
European Space Agency
Centre National D'etudes Spatiales
CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France)
Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Italian National Research Council
Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica (INAF)
National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
United States Department of Energy (DOE)
UKSA (UK)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
Spanish Government
JA (Spain)
RES (Spain)
Finnish Funding Agency for Technology & Innovation (TEKES)
AoF (Finland)
CSC (Finland)
Helmholtz Association
German Aerospace Centre (DLR)
Max Planck Society
CSA (Canada)
DTU Space (Denmark)
SER/SSO (Switzerland)
RCN (Norway)
Science Foundation Ireland
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
European Union (EU)
BTA 6-m telescope Time Allocation Committee (TAC)
CCI International Time Programme
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Participating Institutions
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ST/J004812/1 ST/L001314/1 ST/I002006/1 ST/J001368/1 ST/L000768/1 ST/H008586/1 ST/G003874/1 ST/I005765/1 ST/K006606/1 ST/K003674/1 ST/H001239/1 ST/K001051/1 ST/M007685/1 ST/K000985/1 ST/K004131/1