The Herschel/PACS Point Source Catalogue Explanatory Supplement

Understand

The Herschel Space Observatory was the fourth cornerstone mission in the European Space Agency (ESA) science programme.

• It had excellent broad band imaging capabilities in the far-infrared (FIR) and sub-millimetre part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
• Although the spacecraft finished observing in 2013, it left a large legacy dataset that is far from having been fully explored and still has a great potential for new scientific discoveries.
• The PACS and SPIRE photometric cameras observed about 8% of the sky in six different wavebands.