SDSS QSO DR14 spectral properties Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Rakshit S.
  2. Stalin C.S.
  3. Kotilainen J.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present measurements of the spectral properties for a total of 526,265 quasars, out of which 63% have a continuum signal-to-noise ratio >3pixel^-1^, selected from the fourteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR14) quasar catalog. We performed a careful and homogeneous analysis of the SDSS spectra of these sources to estimate the continuum and line properties of several emission lines such as H{alpha}, H{beta}, H{gamma}, MgII, CIII], CIV, and Ly{alpha}. From the derived emission line parameters, we estimated single-epoch virial black hole masses (M_BH_) for the sample using H{beta}, MgII, and CIV emission lines. The sample covers a wide range in bolometric luminosity (logLbol; erg/s) between 44.4 and 47.3 and logM_BH_ between 7.1 and 9.9M_{sin}_. Using the ratio of Lbol to the Eddington luminosity as a measure of the accretion rate, the logarithm of the accretion rate is found to be in the range between -2.06 and 0.43. We performed several correlation analyses between different emission line parameters and found them to match the correlation known earlier using smaller samples. We note that strong FeII sources with a large Balmer line width and highly accreting sources with large M BH are rare in our sample. We make an extended and complete catalog available online that contains various spectral properties of 526,265 quasars derived in this work along with other properties culled from the SDSS-DR14 quasar catalog.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. quasars
  3. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020ApJS..249...17R
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22490017

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History

2020-07-28T13:30:27Z
Resource record created
2020-07-28T13:30:27Z
Created
2021-04-07T15:07:43Z
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