NBC Quasar Candidate Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Richards G.T.
  2. Nichol R.C.
  3. Gray A.G.
  4. Brunner R.J.
  5. Lupton R.H.,Vanden Berk D.E.
  6. Chong S.S.
  7. Weinstein M.A.
  8. Schneider D.P.,Anderson S.F.
  9. Munn J.A.
  10. Harris H.C.
  11. Strauss M.A.
  12. Fan X.
  13. Gunn J.E.,Ivezic Z.
  14. York D.G.
  15. Brinkmann J.
  16. Moore A.W.
  17. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a catalog of 100563 unresolved, UV-excess (UVX) quasar candidates to g=21 from 2099 deg^2^ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release One (DR1) imaging data. Existing spectra of 22737 sources reveals that 22191 (97.6%) are quasars; accounting for the magnitude dependence of this efficiency, we estimate that 95502 (95.0%) of the objects in the catalog are quasars. Such a high efficiency is unprecedented in broadband surveys of quasars. This "proof-of-concept" sample is designed to be maximally efficient, but still has 94.7% completeness to unresolved, g~<19.5, UVX quasars from the DR1 quasar catalog. This efficient and complete selection is the result of our application of a probability density type analysis to training sets that describe the four-dimensional color distribution of stars and spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the SDSS. Specifically, we use a nonparametric Bayesian classification, based on kernel density estimation, to parameterize the color distribution of astronomical sources - allowing for fast and robust classification. We further supplement the catalog by providing photometric redshifts and matches to FIRST/VLA, ROSAT, and USNO-B sources.

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. galaxies
  3. catalogs
  4. ultraviolet-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2004ApJS..155..257R
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/155/257
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/155/257
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21550257

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History

2005-08-21T17:04:32Z
Resource record created
2005-08-21T17:04:32Z
Created
2011-02-03T08:53:05Z
Updated

Contact

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