SDSS quasar catalog with Swift observations Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Wu J.
  2. Vanden Berk D.
  3. Grupe D.
  4. Koch S.
  5. Gelbord J.
  6. Schneider D.P.,Gronwall C.
  7. Wesolowski S.
  8. Porterfield B.L.
  9. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We have compiled a catalog of optically selected quasars with simultaneous observations in UV/optical and X-ray bands by the Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer. Objects in this catalog are identified by matching the Swift pointings with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 quasar catalog. The final catalog contains 843 objects, among which 637 have both Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) and X-Ray Telescope (XRT) observations and 354 of which are detected by both instruments. The overall X-ray detection rate is ~60% which rises to ~85% among sources with at least 10ks of XRT exposure time. We construct the time-averaged spectral energy distribution (SED) for each of the 354 quasars using UVOT photometric measurements and XRT spectra. From model fits to these SEDs, we find that the big blue bump contributes about ~0.3 dex to the quasar luminosity. We re-visit the {alpha}_ox_-L_2500_{AA} relation by selecting a clean sample with only Type 1 radio-quiet quasars; the dispersion of this relation is reduced by at least 15% compared with studies that use non-simultaneous UV/optical and X-ray data.

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. ultraviolet-photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. Wide-band photometry
  5. x-ray-sources
  6. sloan-photometry
  7. active-galactic-nuclei
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2012ApJS..201...10W
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/201/10
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22010010

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History

2012-12-10T09:40:02Z
Resource record created
2012-12-10T09:40:02Z
Created
2017-09-27T05:55:31Z
Updated

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