GNIRS-DQS: SDSS 1.5<z<3.5 QSOs with NIR sp. obs. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Matthews B.M.
  2. Dix C.
  3. Shemmer O.
  4. Brotherton M.S.
  5. Myers A.D.,Andruchow I.
  6. Brandt W.N.
  7. Gallagher S.C.
  8. Green R.
  9. Lira P.
  10. McLane J.N.,Plotkin R.M.
  11. Richards G.T.
  12. Runnoe J.C.
  13. Schneider D.P.
  14. Strauss M.A.
  15. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Quasars at z>~1 most often have redshifts measured from rest-frame ultraviolet emission lines. One of the most common such lines, CIV{lambda}1549, shows blueshifts up to ~5000km/s and in rare cases even higher. This blueshifting results in highly uncertain redshifts when compared to redshift determinations from rest-frame optical emission lines, e.g., from the narrow [OIII]{lambda}5007 feature. We present spectroscopic measurements for 260 sources at 1.55<~z<~3.50 having -28.0<~M_i_<~-30.0mag from the Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph-Distant Quasar Survey (GNIRS-DQS) catalog, augmenting the previous iteration, which contained 226 of the 260 sources whose measurements are improved upon in this work. We obtain reliable systemic redshifts based on [OIII]{lambda}5007 for a subset of 121 sources, which we use to calibrate prescriptions for correcting UV-based redshifts. These prescriptions are based on a regression analysis involving CIV full-width-at-half-maximum intensity and equivalent width, along with the UV continuum luminosity at a rest-frame wavelength of 1350{AA}. Applying these corrections can improve the accuracy and the precision in the CIV-based redshift by up to ~850km/s and ~150km/s, respectively, which correspond to ~8.5 and ~1.5Mpc in comoving distance at z=2.5. Our prescriptions also improve the accuracy of the best available multifeature redshift determination algorithm by ~100km/s, indicating that the spectroscopic properties of the CIV emission line can provide robust redshift estimates for high-redshift quasars. We discuss the prospects of our prescriptions for cosmological and quasar studies utilizing upcoming large spectroscopic surveys.

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. infrared-astronomy
  3. spectroscopy
  4. surveys
  5. redshifted
  6. line-intensities
  7. active-galactic-nuclei
  8. visible-astronomy
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2023ApJ...950...95M
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