Herschel-PACS North Ecliptic Pole Survey

High quality maps, covering an area of 0.44 square degrees, are produced and then used to derive new candidate source lists. A rigorous quality control pipeline has been used to create final legacy catalogues in the PACS Green 100um and Red 160um bands, containing 1385 and 630 sources respectively.

These catalogues reach to more than twice the depth of the current archival Herschel/PACS Point Source Catalogue detecting 401 and 270 more sources in the short and long wavelength bands respectively. These counts have been used to construct galaxy source counts that extend down to flux densities of 6mJy and 19mJy (50% completeness) in the Green 100 micron and Red 160 micron bands respectively. These source counts are consistent with previously published PACS number counts in other fields across the sky.