Submillimetre Photometry of 323 Nearby Galaxies from the Herschel
  Reference Survey
  The Herschel Reference Survey (HRS) is a guaranteed time Herschel key project
aimed at studying the physical properties of the interstellar medium in
galaxies of the nearby universe. This volume limited, K-band selected sample is
composed of galaxies spanning the whole range of morphological types (from
ellipticals to late-type spirals) and environments (from the field to the
centre of the Virgo Cluster). We present flux density measurements of the whole
sample of 323 galaxies of the HRS in the three bands of the Spectral and
Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE), at 250, 350 and 500 microns. Aperture
photometry is performed on extended galaxies and point spread function (PSF)
fitting on timeline data for unresolved objects; we carefully estimate errors
and upper limits. The flux densities are found to be in good agreement with
those of the HeViCS and KINGFISH key projects in all SPIRE bands, and of the
Planck consortium at 350 and 550 microns, for the galaxies in common. This
submillimetre catalogue of nearby galaxies is a benchmark for the study of the
dust properties in the local universe, giving the zero redshift reference for
any cosmological survey.
