The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release

被引：231

作者：

Paris, I. ^{[1
,2
]}

Petitjean, P. ^{[1
]}

Aubourg, E. ^{[3
]}

Bailey, S. ^{[4
]}

Ross, N. P. ^{[4
]}

Myers, A. D. ^{[5
,6
]}

Strauss, M. A. ^{[7
]}

Anderson, S. F. ^{[8
]}

Arnau, E. ^{[9
]}

Bautista, J. ^{[3
]}

Bizyaev, D. ^{[10
]}

Bolton, A. S. ^{[11
]}

Bovy, J. ^{[12
]}

Brandt, W. N. ^{[13
,14
]}

Brewington, H. ^{[10
]}

Browstein, J. R. ^{[11
]}

Busca, N. ^{[3
]}

Capellupo, D. ^{[15
,16
]}

Carithers, W. ^{[4
]}

Croft, R. A. C. ^{[17
]}

Dawson, K. ^{[11
]}

Delubac, T. ^{[18
]}

Ebelke, G. ^{[10
]}

Eisenstein, D. J. ^{[19
]}

Engelke, P. ^{[20
]}

Fan, X. ^{[21
]}

Ak, N. Filiz ^{[13
,14
,22
]}

Finley, H. ^{[1
]}

Font-Ribera, A. ^{[4
,23
]}

Ge, J. ^{[15
]}

Gibson, R. R. ^{[8
]}

Hall, P. B. ^{[24
]}

Hamann, F. ^{[15
]}

Hennawi, J. F. ^{[6
]}

Ho, S. ^{[17
]}

Hogg, D. W. ^{[25
]}

Ivezic, Z. ^{[8
]}

Jiang, L. ^{[21
]}

Kimball, A. E. ^{[8
,26
]}

Kirkby, D. ^{[27
]}

Kirkpatrick, J. A. ^{[4
]}

Lee, K. -G. ^{[6
,28
]}

Le Goff, J. -M. ^{[18
]}

Lundgren, B. ^{[20
]}

MacLeod, C. L. ^{[9
]}

Malanushenko, E. ^{[10
]}

Malanushenko, V. ^{[10
]}

Maraston, C. ^{[29
]}

McGreer, I. D. ^{[21
]}

McMahon, R. G. ^{[30
]}

机构：

[1] UPMC CNRS, Inst Astrophys Paris, UMR 7095, F-75014 Paris, France

[2] Univ Chile, Dept Astron, Santiago, Chile

[3] Univ Paris Diderot, APC, CNRS IN2P3, CEA Irfu,Observ Paris,Sorbonne Paris Cite, F-75205 Paris 13, France

[4] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[5] Univ Wyoming, Dept Phys & Astron, Laramie, WY 82071 USA

[6] Max Planck Inst Astron, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

[7] Princeton Univ Observ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[8] Univ Washington, Dept Astron, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[9] Inst Ciencies Cosmos IEEC UB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

[10] Apache Point Observ, Sunspot, NM 88349 USA

[11] Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA

[12] Inst Adv Study, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA

[13] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[14] Penn State Univ, Inst Gravitat & Cosmos, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[15] Univ Florida, Dept Astron, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

[16] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

[17] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Dept Phys, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

[18] CEA, Ctr Saclay, Irfu SPP, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France

[19] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[20] Yale Univ, Dept Astron, New Haven, CT 06511 USA

[21] Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[22] Erciyes Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Astron & Space Sci, TR-38039 Kayseri, Turkey

[23] Univ Zurich, Inst Theoret Phys, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

[24] York Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada

[25] New York Univ, Dept Phys, Ctr Cosmol & Particle Phys, New York, NY 10003 USA

[26] Natl Radio Astron Observ, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA

[27] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[28] Princeton Univ, Dept Astrophys Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[29] Univ Portsmouth, Inst Cosmol & Gravitat, Portsmouth P01 3FX, Hants, England

[30] Univ Cambridge, Inst Astron, Cambridge CB3 0HA, England

[31] Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats, Catalonia, Spain

[32] IAC, San Cristobal la Laguna 38200, Tenerife, Spain

[33] ULL, Dept Astrofis, San Cristobal la Laguna 38205, Tenerife, Spain

[34] Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

[35] 5 Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11375 USA

[36] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[37] INAF Osservatorio Astron Trieste, Trieste, Italy

[38] INFN Natl Inst Nucl Phys, I-34127 Trieste, Italy

[39] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[40] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & AstroParticle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[41] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Phys & Astron, PITT PACC, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA

来源：

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | 2012年 / 548卷

基金：

美国安德鲁·梅隆基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

catalogs; surveys; quasars: general; BROAD ABSORPTION-LINE; QSO REDSHIFT SURVEY; EFFICIENT PHOTOMETRIC SELECTION; TARGET SELECTION; SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION; LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; EMISSION-LINE; MILKY-WAY; LY-ALPHA; 1ST DATA;

D O I：

10.1051/0004-6361/201220142

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

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 spectrocopically confirmed as quasars via visual inspection, have luminosities M-i[z = 2] < -20.5 (in a Lambda CDM cosmology with H-0 = 70 km s(-1) Mpc(-1), Omega(M) = 0.3, and Omega(Lambda) = 0.7) and either display at least one emission line with full width at half maximum (FWHM) larger than 500 km s(-1) or, if not, have interesting/complex absorption features. It includes as well, known quasars (mostly from SDSS-I and II) that were reobserved by BOSS. This catalog contains 87 822 quasars (78 086 are new discoveries) detected over 3275 deg(2) with robust identification and redshift measured by a combination of principal component eigenspectra newly derived from a training set of 8632 spectra from SDSS-DR7. The number of quasars with z > 2.15 (61 931) is similar to 2.8 times larger than the number of z > 2.15 quasars previously known. Redshifts and FWHMs are provided for the strongest emission lines (C IV, C III], Mg II). The catalog identifies 7533 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 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 angstrom 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 949 quasars that have been identified, among galaxy targets of the BOSS or among quasar targets after DR9 was frozen.

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