HerMES: Point source catalogues from Herschel-SPIRE observations II

Understand

The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) is the largest Guaranteed Time Key Programme on the Herschel Space Observatory.

• With a wedding cake survey strategy, it consists of nested fields with varying depth and area totalling ~380 deg^2.
• In this paper, we present deep point source catalogues extracted from Herschel-SPIRE observations of all HerMES fields, except for the later addition of the 270 deg^2 HeLMS field.
• These catalogues constitute the second Data Release (DR2) made in October 2013.