The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey -- II. Catalog of the Image Data
Erik Rosolowsky (1), Miranda K. Dunham (2), Adam Ginsburg (3), Eric, Todd Bradley (4), James Aguirre (5), John Bally (3), Cara Battersby (3),, Claudia Cyganowski (6), Darren Dowell (7), Meredith Drosback (8), Neal J., Evans II (2), Jason Glenn (3), Paul Harvey (2,3)

TL;DR
This paper presents a catalog of 8,358 millimeter dust emission sources from the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey, providing a valuable resource for studying molecular clumps and star formation in the Galactic plane.
Contribution
It introduces a new catalog of Galactic plane sources extracted with a custom algorithm, improving identification and characterization of molecular clumps.
Findings
Catalog is 98% complete for sources from 0.4 to 60 Jy.
Sources are best described as molecular clumps linked to star formation.
Flux density distribution follows a power law with index -2.4.
Abstract
We present a catalog of 8358 sources extracted from images produced by the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS). The BGPS is a survey of the millimeter dust continuum emission from the northern Galactic plane. The catalog sources are extracted using a custom algorithm, Bolocat, which was designed specifically to identify and characterize objects in the large-area maps generated from the Bolocam instrument. The catalog products are designed to facilitate follow-up observations of these relatively unstudied objects. The catalog is 98% complete from 0.4 Jy to 60 Jy over all object sizes for which the survey is sensitive (<3.5'). We find that the sources extracted can best be described as molecular clumps -- large dense regions in molecular clouds linked to cluster formation. We find the flux density distribution of sources follows a power law with dN/dS ~S^(-2.4 +/- 0.1) and that the mean…
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