Bibcode
Pâris, I.; Petitjean, Patrick; Aubourg, Éric; Myers, Adam D.; Streblyanska, A.; Lyke, Brad W.; Anderson, Scott F.; Armengaud, Éric; Bautista, Julian; Blanton, Michael R.; Blomqvist, Michael; Brinkmann, Jonathan; Brownstein, Joel R.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Burtin, Étienne; Dawson, Kyle; de la Torre, Sylvain; Georgakakis, Antonis; Gil-Marín, Héctor; Green, Paul J.; Hall, Patrick B.; Kneib, Jean-Paul; LaMassa, Stephanie M.; Le Goff, Jean-Marc; MacLeod, Chelsea; Mariappan, Vivek; McGreer, Ian D.; Merloni, Andrea; Noterdaeme, Pasquier; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Percival, Will J.; Ross, Ashley J.; Rossi, Graziano; Schneider, Donald P.; Seo, Hee-Jong; Tojeiro, Rita; Weaver, Benjamin A.; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Yèche, Christophe; Zarrouk, Pauline; Zhao, Gong-Bo
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 613, id.A51, 17 pp.
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2018
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Description
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 Λ CDM cosmology with H0 = 70 km
s-1 Mpc-1, Ω M =0.3, and Ω
Λ = 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.
http://www.sdss.org/dr14/algorithms/qso_catalog
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