The SDSS-DR7 quasar catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Schneider D.P.
  2. Richards G.T.
  3. Hall P.B.
  4. Strauss M.A.
  5. Anderson S.F.,Boroson T.A.
  6. Ross N.P.
  7. Shen Y.
  8. Brandt W.N.
  9. Fan X.
  10. Inada N.
  11. Jester S.,Knapp G.R.
  12. Krawczyk C.M.
  13. Thakar A.R.
  14. Vanden Berk D.E.
  15. Voges W.,Yanny B.
  16. York D.G.
  17. Bahcall N.A.
  18. Bizyaev D.
  19. Blanton M.R.
  20. Brewington H.,Brinkmann J.
  21. Eisenstein D.
  22. Frieman J.A.
  23. Fukugita M.
  24. Gray J.
  25. Gunn J.E.,Hibon P.
  26. Ivezic Z.
  27. Kent S.M.
  28. Kron R.G.
  29. Lee M.G.
  30. Lupton R.H.,Malanushenko E.
  31. Malanushenko V.
  32. Oravetz D.
  33. Pan K.
  34. Pier J.R.,Price T.N.
  35. Saxe D.H.
  36. Schlegel D.J.
  37. Simmons A.
  38. Snedden S.A.,Subbarao M.U.
  39. Szalay A.S.
  40. Weinberg D.H.
  41. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the fifth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog, which is based upon the SDSS Seventh Data Release. The catalog, which contains 105783 spectroscopically confirmed quasars, represents the conclusion of the SDSS-I and SDSS-II quasar survey. The catalog consists of the SDSS objects that have luminosities larger than M_i_=-22.0 (in a cosmology with H_0_=70km/s/Mpc, {Omega}_M_=0.3, and {Omega}_{Lambda}=0.7), have at least one emission line with FWHM larger than 1000km/s or have interesting/complex absorption features, are fainter than i~15.0, and have highly reliable redshifts. The catalog covers an area of ~9380deg^2^. The quasar redshifts range from 0.065 to 5.46, with a median value of 1.49; the catalog includes 1248 quasars at redshifts greater than 4, of which 56 are at redshifts greater than 5. The catalog contains 9210 quasars with i<18; slightly over half of the entries have i<19. For each object the catalog presents positions accurate to better than 0.1"rms per coordinate, five-band (ugriz) CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.03mag, and information on the morphology and selection method. The catalog also contains radio, near-infrared, and X-ray emission properties of the quasars, when available, from other large-area surveys. The calibrated digital spectra cover the wavelength region 3800-9200{AA} at a spectral resolution of ~2000; the spectra can be retrieved from the SDSS public database using the information provided in the catalog. Over 96% of the objects in the catalog were discovered by the SDSS. We also include a supplemental list of an additional 207 quasars with SDSS spectra whose archive photometric information is incomplete.

Keywords
  1. Quasars
  2. Surveys
  3. Optical astronomy
  4. Sloan photometry
  5. Redshifted
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2010AJ....139.2360S
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History

2010-06-03T14:40:18Z
Resource record created
2010-06-03T14:40:18Z
Created
2014-01-30T14:38:59Z
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