The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Fourteenth data release

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作者
Paris, Isabelle [1 ]
Petitjean, Patrick [2 ]
Aubourg, Eric [3 ]
Myers, Adam D. [4 ]
Streblyanska, Alina [5 ,6 ]
Lyke, Brad W. [4 ]
Anderson, Scott F. [7 ]
Armengaud, Eric [8 ]
Bautista, Julian [9 ]
Blanton, Michael R. [10 ]
Blomqvist, Michael [1 ]
Brinkmann, Jonathan [11 ]
Brownstein, Joel R.
Brandt, William Nielsen [12 ,13 ,14 ]
Burtin, Etienne [8 ]
Dawson, Kyle [9 ]
de la Torre, Sylvain [1 ]
Georgakakis, Antonis [15 ]
Gil-Marin, Hector [16 ,17 ]
Green, Paul J. [18 ]
Hall, Patrick B. [19 ]
Kneib, Jean-Paul [20 ]
LaMassa, Stephanie M. [21 ]
Le Goff, Jean-Marc [8 ]
MacLeod, Chelsea [18 ]
Mariappan, Vivek [9 ]
McGreer, Ian D. [22 ]
Merloni, Andrea [15 ]
Noterdaeme, Pasquier [2 ]
Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie [8 ]
Percival, Will J. [23 ]
Ross, Ashley J. [24 ]
Rossi, Graziano [25 ]
Schneider, Donald P. [12 ,13 ]
Seo, Hee-Jong [26 ]
Tojeiro, Rita [27 ]
Weaver, Benjamin A. [28 ]
Weijmans, Anne-Marie [27 ]
Yeche, Christophe [8 ]
Zarrouk, Pauline [8 ]
Zhao, Gong-Bo [23 ,29 ]
机构
[1] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LAM, F-13013 Marseille, France
[2] CNRS, UPMC, Inst Astrophys Paris, UMR 7095, 98 Bis Blvd Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
[3] Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS IN2P3, Sorbonne Paris Cite, APC,CEA IRFU,Observ Paris, Paris, France
[4] Univ Wyoming, Dept Phys & Astron, Laramie, WY 82071 USA
[5] Inst Astrofis Canarias, Tenerife 38205, Spain
[6] Univ La Laguna, Dept Astrofis, E-38206 Tenerife, Spain
[7] Univ Washington, Dept Astron, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[8] CEA, IRFU, Ctr Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[9] Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, 115 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[10] NYU, Dept Phys, Ctr Cosmol & Particle Phys, 726 Broadway,Room 1005, New York, NY 10003 USA
[11] Apache Point Observ, POB 59, Sunspot, NM 88349 USA
[12] Penn State Univ, Eberly Coll Sci, Dept Astron & Astrophys, 525 Davey Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[13] Penn State Univ, Inst Gravitat & Cosmos, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[14] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[15] Max Planck Inst Extraterr Phys, Giessenbachstr 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[16] Sorbonne Univ, Inst Lagrange Paris, 98 Bis Blvd Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
[17] Univ Paris 06, Lab Phys Nucl & Hautes Energies, 4 Pl Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France
[18] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[19] York Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
[20] EPFL, Inst Phys, Astrophys Lab, Observ Sauverny, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
[21] Space Telescope Sci Inst, 3700 San Martin Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[22] Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, 933 North Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[23] Univ Portsmouth, Inst Cosmol & Gravitat, Dennis Sciama Bldg, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, Hants, England
[24] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & AstroParticle Phys, 191 W Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[25] Sejong Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Seoul 143747, South Korea
[26] Ohio Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Clippinger Labs, Athens, OH 45701 USA
[27] Univ St Andrews, Sch Phys & Astron, St Andrews KY16 9SS, Fife, Scotland
[28] Natl Opt Astron Observ, 950 North Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719 USA
[29] Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Astron Observ, 20A Datun Rd, Beijing 100012, Peoples R China
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; EXTREMELY RED QUASARS; SDSS; EVOLUTION; TELESCOPE; SELECTION; IV; CALIBRATION; DISCOVERY; GALAXIES;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361/201732445
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present the data release 14 Quasar catalog (DR14Q) from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). This catalog includes all SDSS-IV/eBOSS objects that were spectroscopically targeted as quasar candidates and that are confirmed as quasars via a new automated procedure combined with a partial visual inspection of spectra, have luminosities M-i [z = 2] < -20.5 (in a ACDM cosmology with H-0 = 70 km s(-1) Mpc(-1), Omega(M) = 0.3, and Omega(A) = 0.7), and either display at least one emission line with a full width at half maximum larger than 500 km s(-1) or, if not, have interesting/complex absorption features. The catalog also includes previously spectroscopically-confirmed quasars from SDSS-I, II, and III. The catalog contains 526 356 quasars (144 046 are new discoveries since the beginning of SDSS-IV) detected over 9376 deg(2) (2044 deg(2) having new spectroscopic data available) with robust identification and redshift measured by a combination of principal component eigenspectra. The catalog is estimated to have about 0.5% contamination. Redshifts are provided for the Mg 11 emission line. The catalog identifies 21 877 broad absorption line quasars and lists 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. 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, covering the wavelength region 3610-10 140 A at a spectral resolution in the range 1300 < R < 2500, can be retrieved from the SDSS Science Archiver Server.
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