QSO properties from SDSS-DR7 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Shen Y.
  2. Richards G.T.
  3. Strauss M.A.
  4. Hall P.B.
  5. Schneider D.P.,Snedden S.
  6. Bizyaev D.
  7. Brewington H.
  8. Malanushenko V.
  9. Malanushenko E.,Oravetz D.
  10. Pan K.
  11. Simmons A.
  12. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a compilation of properties of the 105783 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (DR7) quasar catalog (Cat. VII/260). In this product, we compile continuum and emission line measurements around the H{alpha}, H{beta}, MgII, and CIV regions, as well as other quantities such as radio properties, and flags indicating broad absorption line quasars, disk emitters, etc. We also compile virial black hole mass estimates based on various calibrations. For the fiducial virial mass estimates we use the Vestergaard & Peterson (VP06; 2006ApJ...641..689V) calibrations for H{beta} and CIV, and our own calibration for MgII which matches the VP06 H{beta} masses on average. We describe the construction of this catalog and discuss its limitations.

Keywords
  1. line-intensities
  2. spectroscopy
  3. quasars
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. sloan-photometry
  6. active-galactic-nuclei
  7. surveys
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2011ApJS..194...45S
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/194/45
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/194/45
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21940045

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History

2014-04-25T14:49:08Z
Resource record created
2014-04-25T14:49:08Z
Created
2018-01-05T08:55:30Z
Updated

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