Submillimetre photometry of 323 nearby galaxies from the Herschel Reference Survey^⋆,⋆⋆

¹ Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille – LAM, Université d’Aix-Marseille & CNRS, UMR7326, 38 rue F. Joliot-Curie, 13388 Marseille Cedex 13, France
e-mail: laure.ciesla@oamp.fr
² School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Queens Buildings The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK
³ UK ALMA Regional Centre Node, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
⁴ European Southern Observatory, Karl Schwarzschild Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany
⁵ INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
⁶ Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
⁷ Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent, Krijgslaan 281 S9, 9000 Gent, Belgium
⁸ Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
⁹ California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
¹⁰ Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
¹¹ CEA/DSM/IRFU/Service d’Astrophysique, CEA, Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, Bât. 709, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
¹² Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, INAF, via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
¹³ Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova, vicolo Osservatorio 3, 35122 Padova, Italy
¹⁴ Astrophysics Group, Physics Department, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, 7535 Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa
¹⁵ Astrophysics Group, Imperial College, Blackett Laboratory, PrinceConsort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Received: 13 March 2012
Accepted: 17 April 2012

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 μm, 350 μm and 500 μm. 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 μm and 550 μm, 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.