- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/618/A144
- Title:
- QSO candidates catalog with APOP & ALLWISE (QCC)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/618/A144
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Quasars are spatially stationary, and they are essential objects in astrometry when defining reference frames. However, the census of quasars is far from complete. Mid-infared colors can be used to find quasar candidates because AGNs show a peculiar appearance in mid-infrared color, but these methods are incapable of separating quasars from AGNs.The aim of our study is to use astrometric and mid-infrared methods to select quasars and get a reliable quasar candidates catalog. We used a near-zero proper motion criterion in conjuction with WISE (all-sky Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) [W1-W2] color to select quasar candidates. The [W1-W2] color criterion is defined by the linear boundary of two samples: LAMOST DR5 quasars, which serve as the quasar sample, and LAMOST DR5 stars/galaxies, which serve as the non-quasar sample. The contamination and completeness are evaluated. We present a catalog of 662753 quasar candidates, with a completeness of about 75% and a reliability of 77.2%.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/396/223
- Title:
- QSO candidates selection in VO era
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/396/223
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a method for the photometric selection of candidate quasars in multiband surveys. The method makes use of a priori knowledge derived from a subsample of spectroscopic confirmed quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) to map the parameter space. The disentanglement of QSOs candidates and stars is performed in the colour space through the combined use of two algorithms, the probabilistic principal surfaces and the negative entropy clustering, which are for the first time used in an astronomical context. Both methods have been implemented in the voneural package on the Astrogrid Virtual Observatory platform. Even though they belong to the class of the unsupervised clustering tools, the performances of the method are optimized by using the available sample of confirmed quasars and it is therefore possible to learn from any improvement in the available 'base of knowledge'. The method has been applied and tested on both optical and optical plus near-infrared data extracted from the visible Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and infrared United Kingdom Infrared Deep Sky Survey-Large Area Survey public data bases. In all cases, the experiments lead to high values of both efficiency and completeness, comparable if not better than the methods already known in the literature. A catalogue of optical candidate QSOs extracted from the SDSS Data Release 7 Legacy photometric data set has been produced.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/447/3856
- Title:
- QSO-galaxy pairs from SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/447/3856
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present photometric and spectroscopic measurements of 53 QSO-galaxy pairs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), where nebular emission lines from a 0<z<0.84 foreground galaxy are detected in the fibre spectra of a background QSO, bringing the overall sample to 103 QSO-galaxy pairs detected in the SDSS. We here study the nature of these systems. Detected foreground galaxies appear at impact parameters between 0.37 and 12.68 kpc. The presence of oxygen and Balmer emission lines allows us to determine the emission line metallicities for our sample, which are on average supersolar in value. Star formation rates for our sample are in the range 0.01-12M_{sun}_/yr. We utilize photometric redshift fitting techniques to estimate the M* values of our galaxies (logM*=7.34-11.54), and extrapolate this relationship to those galaxies with no imaging detections. Where available, we measure the absorption features present in the QSO spectrum due to the foreground galaxy and the relationships between their rest equivalent widths. We report an anticorrelation between impact parameter and E(B-V)(g-i), as well as a correlation between galaxy colour (u- r) and E(B-V)(g-i). We find that our sample is one of late-type, star-forming galaxies comparable to field galaxies in a similar redshift range, providing important clues to better understand absorption systems. These galaxies represent a sample of typical galaxies in the local Universe for which abundances, extinction, morphology, and absorption properties may be measured using background QSOs with great potential for follow-up observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/635/A157
- Title:
- QSO J1538+0855 MUSE datacube
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/635/A157
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In recent years, Ly{alpha} nebulae have been routinely detected around high redshift, radio-quiet quasars thanks to the advent of the highly sensitive integral field spectrographs. Constraining the physical properties of the Ly{alpha} nebulae is crucial for a full understanding of the circum-galactic medium (CGM). The CGM acts both as a repository for intergalactic and galactic baryons as well as a venue of feeding and feedback processes. The most luminous quasars are privileged test-beds to study these processes, given their large ionising fluxes and dense CGM environments in which they are expected to be embedded.We aim to characterise the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) emission lines in the CGM around a hyper-luminous, broad emission line, radio-quiet quasar at z~3.6, which exhibits powerful outflows at both nuclear and host galaxy scales.We analyse VLT/MUSE observations of the quasar J1538+08 (Lbol=6*10^47^erg/s), and we performed a search for extended UV emission lines to characterise its morphology, emissivity, kinematics, and metal content.We report the discovery of a very luminous (2*10^44^erg/s), giant (150kpc) Ly{alpha} nebula and a likely associated extended (75kpc) CIV nebula. The Ly{alpha} nebula emission exhibits moderate blueshift (440km/s) compared to the quasar systemic redshift and a large average velocity dispersion (700km/s) across the nebula, while the CIV nebula shows average velocity dispersion of 350km/s. The Ly{alpha} line profile exhibits a significant asymmetry towards negative velocity values at 20-30kpc south of the quasar and is well parametrised by the following two Gaussian components: a narrow (470km/s) systemic one plus a broad (1200km/s), blueshifted (1500km/s) one. Our analysis of the MUSE observation of J1538+08 reveals metal-enriched CGM around this hyper-luminous quasar. Furthermore, our detection of blueshifted emission in the emission profile of the Ly{alpha} nebula suggests that powerful nuclear outflows can propagate through the CGM over tens of kiloparsecs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/194/45
- Title:
- QSO properties from SDSS-DR7
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/194/45
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a compilation of properties of the 105783 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (DR7) quasar catalog (Cat. VII/260). In this product, we compile continuum and emission line measurements around the H{alpha}, H{beta}, MgII, and CIV regions, as well as other quantities such as radio properties, and flags indicating broad absorption line quasars, disk emitters, etc. We also compile virial black hole mass estimates based on various calibrations. For the fiducial virial mass estimates we use the Vestergaard & Peterson (VP06; 2006ApJ...641..689V) calibrations for H{beta} and CIV, and our own calibration for MgII which matches the VP06 H{beta} masses on average. We describe the construction of this catalog and discuss its limitations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/728/26
- Title:
- QSO selection based on photometric variability
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/728/26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We develop a method for separating quasars from other variable point sources using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 light-curve data for ~10000 variable objects. To statistically describe quasar variability, we use a damped random walk (DRW) model parametrized by a damping timescale, {tau}, and an asymptotic amplitude (structure function), SF_{infinite}_. With the aid of an SDSS spectroscopically confirmed quasar sample, we demonstrate that variability selection in typical extragalactic fields with low stellar density can deliver complete samples with reasonable purity (or efficiency, E). Compared to a selection method based solely on the slope of the structure function, the inclusion of the {tau} information boosts E from 60% to 75% while maintaining a highly complete sample (98%) even in the absence of color information. For a completeness of C=90%, E is boosted from 80% to 85%. Conversely, C improves from 90% to 97% while maintaining E=80% when imposing a lower limit on {tau}. With the aid of color selection, the purity can be further boosted to 96%, with C=93%. Hence, selection methods based on variability will play an important role in the selection of quasars with data provided by upcoming large sky surveys, such as Pan-STARRS and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). In summary, given an adequate survey cadence, photometric variability provides an even better method than color selection for separating quasars from stars.
2957. QSOs in the M3 field
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/392/851
- Title:
- QSOs in the M3 field
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/392/851
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a variability and proper motion (VPM) search for QSOs in the field around M3. The VPM search is demonstrated to be powerful technique for efficiently finding QSOs without major selection effects with regard to the spectral energy distribution. Remarkably, the properties of the VPM QSOs do not significantly differ from those of samples from more conventional optical search techniques. The lightcurves of the QSOs from the resulting sample provide an interesting data set for the statistical investigation of QSO long-term variability.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/219/39
- Title:
- QSOs selection from SDSS and WISE
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/219/39
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We identify 885503 type 1 quasar candidates to i<~22 using the combination of optical and mid-IR photometry. Optical photometry is taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-III/BOSS), while mid-IR photometry comes from a combination of data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) "AllWISE" data release and several large-area Spitzer Space Telescope fields. Selection is based on a Bayesian kernel density algorithm with a training sample of 157701 spectroscopically confirmed type 1 quasars with both optical and mid-IR data. Of the quasar candidates, 733713 lack spectroscopic confirmation (and 305623 are objects that we have not previously classified as photometric quasar candidates). These candidates include 7874 objects targeted as high-probability potential quasars with 3.5<z<5 (of which 6779 are new photometric candidates). Our algorithm is more complete to z>3.5 than the traditional mid-IR selection "wedges" and to 2.2<z<3.5 quasars than the SDSS-III/BOSS project. Number counts and luminosity function analysis suggest that the resulting catalog is relatively complete to known quasars and is identifying new high-z quasars at z>3. This catalog paves the way for luminosity-dependent clustering investigations of large numbers of faint, high-redshift quasars and for further machine-learning quasar selection using Spitzer and WISE data combined with other large-area optical imaging surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/406/1583
- Title:
- Quasar from SDSS and UKIDSS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/406/1583
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 8498 quasars with both Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) ugriz optical and United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) YJHK near-infrared (near-IR) photometric data. With this sample, we obtain the median colour-z relations based on 7400 quasars with magnitude uncertainties less than 0.1mag in all bands. By analysing the quasar colours, we propose an empirical criterion in the Y-K versus g-z colour-colour diagram to separate stars and quasars with redshift z<4, and two other criteria for selecting high-redshift quasars. Using the SDSS-UKIDSS colour-z relations, we estimate the photometric redshifts of 8498 SDSS-UKIDSS quasars, and find that 85.0 per cent of them are consistent with the spectroscopic redshifts within |{Delta}z|<0.2, which leads to a significant increase of the photometric redshift accuracy from that based on the SDSS colour-z relations only. As two tests, we compare our colour-selection criterion with a small UKIDSS/EDR quasar/star sample and a sample of 4671 variable sources in the SDSS Stripe 82 region with both SDSS and UKIDSS data. We find that they can be clearly divided into two classes (quasars and stars) by our criterion in the Y-K versus g-z plot.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/2766
- Title:
- Quasar luminosity function from SDSS-DR3
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/2766
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define the most uniform statistical sample possible, consisting of 15343 quasars within an effective area of 1622{deg}^2^ that was derived from a parent sample of 46420 spectroscopically confirmed broad-line quasars in the 5282{deg}^2^ of imaging data from SDSS Data Release 3. The sample extends from i=15 to 19.1 at z<~3 and to i=20.2 for z>~3.
