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doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201116459

We present the first all-sky sample of galaxy clusters detected blindly by the Planck satellite through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect from its six highest frequencies. This early SZ (ESZ) sample is comprised of 189 candidates, which have a high signal-to-noise ratio ranging from 6 to 29. Its high reliability (purity above 95%) is further ensured by an extensive validation process based on Planck internal quality assessments and by external cross-identification and follow-up observations. Planck provides the first measured SZ signal for about 80% of the 169 previously-known ESZ clusters. Planck furthermore releases 30 new cluster candidates, amongst which 20 meet the ESZ signal-to-noise selection criterion. At the submission date, twelve of the 20 ESZ candidates were confirmed as new clusters, with eleven confirmed using XMM-Newton snapshot observations, most of them with disturbed morphologies and low luminosities. The ESZ clusters are mostly at moderate redshifts (86% with z below 0.3) and span more than a decade in mass, up to the rarest and most massive clusters with masses above 1 x 10(15) M-circle dot.

Planck early results. VIII. The all-sky early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample / Ade, P.A.R., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Banday, A.J., Barreiro, R.B., Bartelmann, M., Bartlett, J.G., Battaner, E., Battye, R., Benabed, K., Benoît, A., Bernard, J..P., Bersanelli, M., Bhatia, R., Bock, J.J., Bonaldi, A., et al.. - In: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. - ISSN 0004-6361. - 536:(2011), pp. 1-28. [10.1051/0004-6361/201116459]