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EDP Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, (543), p. A161, 2012

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219216

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Submillimetre photometry of 323 nearby galaxies from theHerschelReference Survey

Journal article published in 2012 by L. Ciesla, A. Boselli, M. W. L. Smith, G. J. Bendo, L. Cortese, S. Eales, S. Bianchi ORCID, M. Boquien, V. Buat, J. Davies, M. Pohlen, S. Zibetti, M. Baes ORCID, A. Cooray, I. de Looze and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

The Herschel Reference Survey (HRS) is a guaranteed time Herschel key project aimed at studying the physical properties of the interstellar medium in galaxies of the nearby universe. This volume limited, K-band selected sample is composed of galaxies spanning the whole range of morphological types (from ellipticals to late-type spirals) and environments (from the field to the centre of the Virgo Cluster). We present flux density measurements of the whole sample of 323 galaxies of the HRS in the three bands of the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE), at 250, 350 and 500 microns. Aperture photometry is performed on extended galaxies and point spread function (PSF) fitting on timeline data for unresolved objects; we carefully estimate errors and upper limits. The flux densities are found to be in good agreement with those of the HeViCS and KINGFISH key projects in all SPIRE bands, and of the Planck consortium at 350 and 550 microns, for the galaxies in common. This submillimetre catalogue of nearby galaxies is a benchmark for the study of the dust properties in the local universe, giving the zero redshift reference for any cosmological survey. ; Comment: 26 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A. The complete paper containing the atlas images of the 323 galaxies in the three SPIRE bands and in the SDSS r' band is available on http://hedam.oamp.fr/HRS/publication_download.php