SDSS Quasar Catalog, DR9Q Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Paris I.
  2. Petitjean P.
  3. Aubourg E.
  4. Bailey S.
  5. Ross N.P.
  6. Myers A.D.,Strauss M.A.
  7. Anderson S.F.
  8. Arnau E.
  9. Bautista J.
  10. Bizyaev D.,Bolton A.S.
  11. Bovy J.
  12. Brandt W.N.
  13. Brewington H.
  14. Brownstein J.R.,Busca N.
  15. Capellupo D.
  16. Carithers W.
  17. Croft R.A.C.
  18. Dawson K.,Delubac T.
  19. Ebelke G.
  20. Eisenstein D.J.
  21. Engelke P.
  22. Fan X.
  23. Filiz Ak N.,Finley H.
  24. Font-Ribera A.
  25. Ge J.
  26. Gibson R.R.
  27. Hall P.B.
  28. Hamann F.,Hennawi J.F.
  29. Ho S.
  30. Hogg D.W.
  31. Ivezic Z.
  32. Jiang L.
  33. Kimball A.E.,Kirky D.
  34. Kirkpatrick J.A.
  35. Lee K-G.
  36. Le Goff J.-M.
  37. Lundgren B.,MacLeod C.L.
  38. Malanushenko E.
  39. Malanushenko V.
  40. Maraston C.,McGreer I.D.
  41. McMahon R.G.
  42. Miralda-Escude J.
  43. Muna D.
  44. Noterdaeme P.,Oravetz D.
  45. Palanque-Delabrouille N.
  46. Pan K.
  47. Perez-Fournon I.,Pieri M.M.
  48. Richards G.T.
  49. Rollinde E.
  50. Sheldon E.S.
  51. Schlegel D.J.,Schneider D.P.
  52. Slosar A.
  53. Shelden A.
  54. Shen Y.
  55. Simmons A.
  56. Snedden S.,Suzuki N.
  57. Tinker J.
  58. Viel M.
  59. Weaver B.A.
  60. Weinberg D.W.
  61. White M.,Wood-Vasey W.M.
  62. Yeche C.
  63. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the Data Release 9 Quasar (DR9Q) catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. The catalog includes all BOSS objects that were targeted as quasar candidates during the survey, are spectroscopically confirmed as quasars via visual inspection. This catalog contains 87,822 quasars (78,086 are new discoveries) detected over 3,275{deg}^2^ with robust identification and redshift measured by a combination of principal component eigenspectra newly derived from a training set of 8,632 spectra from SDSS-DR7. The number of quasars with z>2.15 (61,931) is 2.8 times larger than the number of z>2.15 quasars previously known. Redshifts and FWHMs are provided for the strongest emission lines (CIV, CIII], MgII). The catalog identifies 7,533 broad absorption line quasars and gives their characteristics. For each object the catalog presents five-band (u,g,r,i,z) CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.03mag, and information on the morphology and selection method. The catalog also contains X-ray, ultraviolet, near-infrared, and radio emission properties of the quasars, when available, from other large-area surveys. We also provide a supplemental list of an additional 949 quasars that have been identified, among galaxy targets of the BOSS or among quasar targets after DR9 was frozen.

Keywords
  1. Surveys
  2. Quasars
  3. Active galactic nuclei
  4. Spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2012A&A...548A..66P
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/VII/269
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/269

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History

2013-03-31T09:54:58Z
Resource record created
2013-03-31T09:54:58Z
Created
2019-08-06T12:15:30Z
Updated

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