Catalogue of quasar candidates Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. BEAUCHEMIN. M.
  2. BORRA. E.F.
  3. EDWARDS G.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

This paper gives a list of all quasar candidates obtained from an automated computer search performed on 11 grens plates. The description of the main characteristics of the survey is given along with the latest improvements in the selection techniques. Particular attention has been paid to understanding and quantifying selection effects. This allows the construction of homogeneous samples having well-understood characteristics. The noteworthy aspect of our homogenization process is the correction that we apply to our probability classes in order to take into account the signal-to-noise differences; at a given magnitude, among plates of different limiting magnitudes. Since such homogeneous material is rare, this catalogue is of general interest. Each grens plate covers about 1 square degree with typical limiting magnitude of B~21. Data are given with all relevant quantities needed to understand the characteristics of the survey. We expect that over 100 of the 125 higher probability class candidates are quasars. A third of the ~400 lower probability objects should also be quasars. This material is well-suited to follow-up spectroscopy with fibre spectrographs.

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1990MNRAS.247..182B
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/247/182
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/247/182
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.72470182

Access

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http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/247/182
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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/247/182
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https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/247/182/table5?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/247/182/table5?

History

1997-12-09T21:35:09Z
Resource record created
1997-12-09T21:35:09Z
Created
2013-03-04T07:05:34Z
Updated

Contact

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