TY - JOUR
T1 - The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog
T2 - Tenth data release â&dagger
AU - Pâris, Isabelle
AU - Petitjean, Patrick
AU - Aubourg, Éric
AU - Ross, Nicholas P.
AU - Myers, Adam D.
AU - Streblyanska, Alina
AU - Bailey, Stephen
AU - Hall, Patrick B.
AU - Strauss, Michael A.
AU - Anderson, Scott F.
AU - Bizyaev, Dmitry
AU - Borde, Arnaud
AU - Brinkmann, J.
AU - Bovy, Jo
AU - Brandt, William N.
AU - Brewington, Howard
AU - Brownstein, Joel R.
AU - Cook, Benjamin A.
AU - Ebelke, Garrett
AU - Fan, Xiaohui
AU - Ak, Nurten Filiz
AU - Finley, Hayley
AU - Font-Ribera, Andreu
AU - Ge, Jian
AU - Hamann, Fred
AU - Ho, Shirley
AU - Jiang, Linhua
AU - Kinemuchi, Karen
AU - Malanushenko, Elena
AU - Malanushenko, Viktor
AU - Marchante, Moses
AU - McGreer, Ian D.
AU - McMahon, Richard G.
AU - Miralda-Escudé, Jordi
AU - Muna, Demitri
AU - Noterdaeme, Pasquier
AU - Oravetz, Daniel
AU - Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
AU - Pan, Kaike
AU - Perez-Fournon, Ismaël
AU - Pieri, Matthew
AU - Riffel, Rogério
AU - Schlegel, David J.
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Simmons, Audrey
AU - Viel, Matteo
AU - Weaver, Benjamin A.
AU - Wood-Vasey, W. Michael
AU - Yèche, Christophe
AU - York, Donald G.
N1 - Funding Information:
I.P. received partial support from Center of Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies (PFB 06). The French Participation Group to SDSS-III was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under contracts ANR-08-BLAN-0222 and ANR-12-BS05-0015. A.D.M. is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany and was partially supported through NSF Grant 1211112 and NASA ADAP award NNX12AE38G. Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Office of Science. The SDSS-III web site is http://www.sdss3.org/ . SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and Yale University.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - We present the Data Release 10 Quasar (DR10Q) 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 first 2.5 years of the survey and that are confirmed as quasars via visual inspection of the spectra, have luminosities Mi[z = 2] <-20.5 (in a ΛCDM cosmology with H0 = 70 km s-1 Mpc-1, ΩM = 0.3, and ΩΛ = 0.7), and either display at least one emission line with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) larger than 500 km s-1 or, if not, have interesting/complex absorption features. The catalog also includes known quasars (mostly from SDSS-I and II) that were reobserved by BOSS. The catalog contains 166 583 quasars (74 454 are new discoveries since SDSS-DR9) detected over 6373 deg2 with robust identification and redshift measured by a combination of principal component eigenspectra. The number of quasars with z > 2.15 (117 668) is ~5 times greater than the number of z > 2.15 quasars known prior to BOSS. Redshifts and FWHMs are provided for the strongest emission lines (C iv, C iii, Mg ii). The catalog identifies 16 461 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 0.03 mag and information on the optical 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. The calibrated digital spectra cover the wavelength region 3600-10 500 Å at a spectral resolution in the range 1300 < R < 2500; the spectra can be retrieved from the SDSS Catalog Archive Server. We also provide a supplemental list of an additional 2376 quasars that have been identified among the galaxy targets of the SDSS-III/BOSS.
AB - We present the Data Release 10 Quasar (DR10Q) 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 first 2.5 years of the survey and that are confirmed as quasars via visual inspection of the spectra, have luminosities Mi[z = 2] <-20.5 (in a ΛCDM cosmology with H0 = 70 km s-1 Mpc-1, ΩM = 0.3, and ΩΛ = 0.7), and either display at least one emission line with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) larger than 500 km s-1 or, if not, have interesting/complex absorption features. The catalog also includes known quasars (mostly from SDSS-I and II) that were reobserved by BOSS. The catalog contains 166 583 quasars (74 454 are new discoveries since SDSS-DR9) detected over 6373 deg2 with robust identification and redshift measured by a combination of principal component eigenspectra. The number of quasars with z > 2.15 (117 668) is ~5 times greater than the number of z > 2.15 quasars known prior to BOSS. Redshifts and FWHMs are provided for the strongest emission lines (C iv, C iii, Mg ii). The catalog identifies 16 461 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 0.03 mag and information on the optical 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. The calibrated digital spectra cover the wavelength region 3600-10 500 Å at a spectral resolution in the range 1300 < R < 2500; the spectra can be retrieved from the SDSS Catalog Archive Server. We also provide a supplemental list of an additional 2376 quasars that have been identified among the galaxy targets of the SDSS-III/BOSS.
KW - Catalogs
KW - Quasars: general
KW - Surveys
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U2 - 10.1051/0004-6361/201322691
DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/201322691
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84896758323
SN - 0004-6361
VL - 563
JO - Astronomy and Astrophysics
JF - Astronomy and Astrophysics
M1 - A54
ER -