TY - JOUR
T1 - The sloan digital sky survey quasar catalog
T2 - Fourteenth data release
AU - Pâris, Isabelle
AU - Petitjean, Patrick
AU - Aubourg, Éric
AU - Myers, Adam D.
AU - Streblyanska, Alina
AU - Lyke, Brad W.
AU - Anderson, Scott F.
AU - Armengaud, Éric
AU - Bautista, Julian
AU - Blanton, Michael R.
AU - Blomqvist, Michael
AU - Brinkmann, Jonathan
AU - Brownstein, Joel R.
AU - Brandt, William Nielsen
AU - Burtin, Étienne
AU - Dawson, Kyle
AU - De La Torre, Sylvain
AU - Georgakakis, Antonis
AU - Gil-Marín, Héctor
AU - Green, Paul J.
AU - Hall, Patrick B.
AU - Kneib, Jean Paul
AU - LaMassa, Stephanie M.
AU - Le Goff, Jean Marc
AU - MacLeod, Chelsea
AU - Mariappan, Vivek
AU - McGreer, Ian D.
AU - Merloni, Andrea
AU - Noterdaeme, Pasquier
AU - Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
AU - Percival, Will J.
AU - Ross, Ashley J.
AU - Rossi, Graziano
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Seo, Hee Jong
AU - Tojeiro, Rita
AU - Weaver, Benjamin A.
AU - Weijmans, Anne Marie
AU - Yèche, Christophe
AU - Zarrouk, Pauline
AU - Zhao, Gong Bo
N1 - Funding Information:
IP acknowledges the support of the OCEVU Labex (ANR-11-LABX-0060) and the A∗MIDEX project (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02) funded by the "Investissements d'Avenir" French government program managed by the ANR. The French Participation Group to SDSS-IV was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under contracts ANR-16-CE31-0021. A. W. acknowledges support from a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. A. D. M. and B. W. L. acknowledge support from National Science Foundation grants 1515404 and 1616168. I. P. thanks warmly the Great and Extremely COol team, especially Samuel Boissier, Jean-Claude Bouret, Sylvain de la Torre, Audrey Delsanti, Olivier Groussin, Olivier Perfect Ilbert, Éric Jullo, Vincent Le Brun, and Sébastien Vives, for encouraging creativity and for dealing with its unexpected consequences. This research has made use of data obtained from the 3XMM XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalog compiled by the 10 institutes of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre selected by ESA. Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss.org. SDSS-IV is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration including the Brazilian Participation Group, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Mellon University, the Chilean Participation Group, the French Participation Group, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, The Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA Garching), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), National Astronomical Observatory of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Observatário Nacional/MCTI, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Oxford, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. IP acknowledges the support of the OCEVU Labex (ANR-11-LABX-0060) and the A*MIDEX project (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02) funded by the “Investissements d’Avenir” French government program managed by the ANR. The French Participation Group to SDSS-IV was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under contracts ANR-16-CE31-0021. A. W. acknowledges support from a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. A. D. M. and B. W. L. acknowledge support from National Science Foundation grants 1515404 and 1616168. I. P. thanks warmly the Great and Extremely COol team, especially Samuel Boissier, Jean-Claude Bouret, Sylvain de la Torre, Audrey Delsanti, Olivier Groussin, Olivier Perfect Ilbert, Éric Jullo, Vincent Le Brun, and Sébastien Vives, for encouraging creativity and for dealing with its unexpected consequences. This research has made use of data obtained from the 3XMM XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalog compiled by the 10 institutes of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre selected by ESA. Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss.org. SDSS-IV is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration including the Brazilian Participation Group, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Mellon University, the Chilean Participation Group, the French Participation Group, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, The Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Leibniz Institut für Astro-physik Potsdam (AIP), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA Garching), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), National Astronomical Observatory of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Observatário Nacional/MCTI, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Oxford, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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 Mi [z = 2] < -20.5 (in a ACDM cosmology with H0 = 70 km s-1 Mpc-1, ΩM = 0.3, and Ω∧ = 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 deg2 (2044 deg2 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 II 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 Å at a spectral resolution in the range 1300 < R < 2500, can be retrieved from the SDSS Science Archiver Server.
AB - 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 Mi [z = 2] < -20.5 (in a ACDM cosmology with H0 = 70 km s-1 Mpc-1, ΩM = 0.3, and Ω∧ = 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 deg2 (2044 deg2 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 II 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 Å at a spectral resolution in the range 1300 < R < 2500, can be retrieved from the SDSS Science Archiver Server.
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U2 - 10.1051/0004-6361/201732445
DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/201732445
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058960405
SN - 0004-6361
VL - 613
JO - Astronomy and Astrophysics
JF - Astronomy and Astrophysics
M1 - A51
ER -