- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/lcrscat
- Title:
- Las Campanas Redshift Survey Catalog
- Short Name:
- LCRSCAT
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS) consists of 26,418 redshifts of galaxies selected from a CCD-based catalog obtained in the R band. The survey covers over 700 deg<sup>2</sup> in six strips, each 1.5 x 80 degrees, three each in the north and south Galactic caps. The median redshift in the survey is about 30,000 km s<sup>-1</sup>. Essential features of the galaxy selection and redshift measurement methods are described and tabulated in the reference paper. These details are important for subsequent analysis of the LCRS data. Two-dimensional representations of the redshift distributions reveal many repetitions of voids, on the scale of about 5000 km s<sup>-1</sup>, sharply bounded by large walls of galaxies as seen in nearby surveys. Statistical investigations of the mean galaxy properties and of clustering on the large scale are reported elsewhere. These include studies of the luminosity function, power spectrum in two and three dimensions, correlation function, pairwise velocity distribution, identification of large-scale structures, and a group catalog. This table contains entries for 94959 objects from the LCRS for which photometric data were obtained and which were initially classified as galaxies on the basis of this photometric information, although subsequent spectroscopy indicated that a small fracton of them are actually stars. There are 27021 objects out of this total which have spectroscopic redshift information (either of themselves or of a nearby object). See also the LCRS home pages at: <a href="http://qold.astro.utoronto.ca/~lin/lcrs.html">http://qold.astro.utoronto.ca/~lin/lcrs.html</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2010 based on the electronic version of Table 3 from the above reference which was obtained from the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/203">CDS Catalog VII/203</a> file catalog.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/twomassrsc
- Title:
- 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) Catalog
- Short Name:
- TWOMASSRSC
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table is based on the results of the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS), a ten-year project to map the full three-dimensional distribution of galaxies in the nearby universe. The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) was completed in 2003 and its final data products, including an extended source catalog (XSC), are available online. The 2MASS XSC contains nearly a million galaxies with K<sub>s</sub> <= 13.5 mag and is essentially complete and mostly unaffected by interstellar extinction and stellar confusion down to a galactic latitude of |b| = 5 degrees for bright galaxies. Near-infrared wavelengths are sensitive to the old stellar populations that dominate galaxy masses, making 2MASS an excellent starting point to study the distribution of matter in the nearby universe. The authors selected a sample of 44,599 2MASS galaxies with K<sub>s</sub> <= 11.75 mag and |b| >= 5 degrees (>= 8 degrees toward the Galactic bulge) as the input catalog for their survey. They obtained spectroscopic observations for 11,000 galaxies and used previously obtained velocities for the remainder of the sample to generate a redshift catalog that is 97.6% complete to well-defined limits and covers 91% of the sky. This provides an unprecedented census of galaxy (baryonic mass) concentrations within 300 Mpc. Earlier versions of their survey have been used in a number of publications that have studied the bulk motion of the Local Group, mapped the density and peculiar velocity fields out to 50 h<sup>-1</sup> Mpc, detected galaxy groups, and estimated the values of several cosmological parameters. Additionally, the authors present morphological types for a nearly complete sub-sample of 20,860 galaxies with K<sub>s</sub> <= 11.25 mag and |b| >= 10 degrees. The authors initially selected 45,086 sources which met the following criteria: <pre> K<sub>s</sub> <= 11.75 mag and detected at H, E(B - V) <= 1 mag, |b| >= 5 degrees for 30 degrees < l < 330 degrees, |b| >= 8 degrees otherwise. </pre> They rejected 324 sources of galactic origin (multiple stars, planetary nebulae, and H II regions) or pieces of galaxies detected as separate sources by the 2MASS pipeline. Additionally, they flagged 314 bona fide galaxies with compromised photometry for reprocessing at a future date. Some of these galaxies have bright stars very close to their nuclei which were not detected by the pipeline. Others are in regions of high stellar density and their center positions and/or isophotal radii have been incorrectly measured by the pipeline. Lastly, some are close pairs or multiples but the pipeline only identified a single object. A detailed explanation of the steps taken to reject and reprocess the flagged galaxies is given in the Appendix of the reference paper. In summary, the final input catalog contained here has 44,599 entries (plotted using black symbols in Figure 1 of the reference paper). In this table, redshifts for 43,533 of the selected galaxies, or 97.6% of the sample, are presented. This table was created by the HEASARC in April 2012 based on an electronic version of Table 3 of the reference paper which was obtained from the ApJS website. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mcxc
- Title:
- MCXC Meta-Catalog of X-Ray Detected Clusters of Galaxies
- Short Name:
- MCXC
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The MCXC is the Meta-Catalog of the compiled properties of X-ray detected Clusters of galaxies. This very large catalog is based on publicly available ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS)-based (NORAS, REFLEX, BCS, SGP, NEP, MACS, and CIZA) and ROSAT serendipitous (160SD, 400SD, SHARC, WARPS, and EMSS) cluster catalogs. Data have been systematically homogenised to an overdensity of 500, and duplicate entries from overlaps between the survey areas of the individual input catalogs have been carefully handled. The MCXC comprises 1743 clusters with virtually no duplicate entries. For each cluster, the MCXC provides three identifiers, a redshift, coordinates, membership in the original catalog, and standardised 0.1 - 2.4 keV band luminosity Lx<sub>500</sub>, total mass M<sub>500</sub>, and radius R<sub>500</sub>, where the 500 suffix means that the quantity has been calculated up to a standard characteristic radius R<sub>500</sub>, the radius within which the mean overdensity of the cluster is 500 times the critical density at the cluster redshift . The meta-catalog additionally furnishes information on overlaps between the input catalogs and the luminosity ratios when measurements from different surveys are available, and gives notes on individual objects. The MCXC is made available so as to provide maximum usefulness for X-ray, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) and other multiwavelength studies. The catalogs and sub-catalogs included in this meta-catalog are listed in Table 1 of the reference paper, and come from the following references: <pre> Catalog Sub- Reference Title Catalog or CDS Cat. (Author) RASS IX/10 ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalog (1RXS) (Voges+, 1999) BCS BCS J/MNRAS/301/881 ROSAT brightest cluster sample - I. (Ebeling+, 1998) eBCS J/MNRAS/318/333 Extended ROSAT Bright Cluster Sample (Ebeling+ 2000) CIZA X-ray clusters behind the Milky Way CIZAI ApJ, 580, 774 (Ebeling+, 2002) CIZAII J/APJ/662/224 (Kocevski+, 2007) EMSS ApJS, 72, 567 Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (Gioia+, 1990) EMSS_1994 ApJS, 94, 583 (Gioia & Luppino, 1994) EMSS_2004 ApJ, 608, 603 (Henry 2004) MACS ApJ, 553, 668 Massive Cluster Survey (Ebeling+, 2001) MACS_MJFV ApJS, 174, 117 (Maughan+, 2008) MACS_BRIGHT MNRAS, 407, 83 (Ebeling+, 2010) MACS_DIST ApJ, 661, L33 (Ebeling+, 2007) NEP NEP J/ApJS/162/304 ROSAT NEP X-ray source catalog (Henry+, 2006) NORAS/ REFLEX NORAS J/ApJS/129/435 NORAS galaxy cluster survey. I. (Boehringer+, 2000) REFLEX J/A+A/425/367 REFLEX Galaxy Cluster Survey Cat (Boehringer+, 2004) SGP SGP J/ApJS/140/239 Clusters of galaxies around SGP (Cruddace+, 2002) SHARC SHARC_BRIGHT J/ApJS/126/209 Bright SHARC survey cluster catalog (Romer+, 2000) SHARC_SOUTH J/MNRAS/341/1093 The Southern SHARC catalog (Burke+, 2003) WARPS WARPSI J/ApJS/140/265 WARPS survey. VI. (Perlman+, 2002) WARPSII J/ApJS/176/374 WARPS-II Cluster catalog. VII. (Horner+, 2008) 160SD 160SD J/ApJ/594/154 160 square degree ROSAT Survey (Mullis+, 2003) 400SD J/ApJS/172/561 400 square degree ROSAT Cluster Survey (Burenin+, 2007) 400SD_SER Serendipitous clusters 400SD_NONSER Not entirely serendipitous clusters </pre> This table was originally ingested by the HEASARC in October 2011 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/534/A109">CDS catalog J/A+A/534/A109</a> file mcxc.dat. It was last updated in September 2023 to match the 12-Nov-2011 CDS version of the catalog. This update corrected the missing minus signs in the declinations of 6 clusters and homogenized the Abell object names. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/milliquas
- Title:
- Million Quasars Catalog (MILLIQUAS), Version 8 (2 August 2023)
- Short Name:
- MILLIQUAS
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the Million Quasars (MILLIQUAS) Catalog, Version 8 (2 August 2023). It is a compendium of 907,144 type-I QSOs and AGN, largely complete from the literature to 30 June 2023. 66,026 QSO candidates are also included, calculated via radio/X-ray association (including double radio lobes) as being 99% likely to be quasars. Blazars and type-II objects are also included, bringing the total count to 1,021,800. 60.7% of all objects show Gaia-EDR3 astrometry. Low-confidence/quality or questionable objects (so deemed by their researchers) are not included in Milliquas. Additional quality cuts can be applied as detailed in the HMQ paper (Flesch 2015,PASA,32,10). Full QSO/AGN classification is accomplished via spectral lines, yielding a reliable spectroscopic redshift. Two spectral lines are required, or one spectral line refining a compatible photometric redshift. Obscured AGN with redshifts from the hosts only are taken to be type-II objects. Some legacy quasars with neither good spectra nor radio/X-ray association were flagged by Gaia-EDR3 as 5-sigma moving (i.e., stars), and so were removed from Milliquas. All objects are de-duplicated across source catalogs. The author's aim here is to present one unique reliable object per each data row. Two NIQs offset < 2 arcsec can be reported as a single object if within the same host. Lenses are reported as single objects onto the brightest quasar imaged. (Milliquas is not a catalog of lenses.) The contents are relatively simple; each object is shown as one entry with the sky coordinates (of whatever epoch), its original name, object class, red and blue optical magnitudes, PSF class, redshift, the citations for the name and redshift, and up to four radio/X-ray identifiers where applicable. Questions/comments/praise/complaints may be directed to Eric Flesch at eric@flesch.org. If you use this catalog in published research, the author requests that you please cite it. The confirmed quasars of this catalog (to Jan 2015) were published as the Half Million Quasars (HMQ) catalog: Flesch E., 2015,PASA,32,10. Note however that Milliquas uses optical sky data from ASP (2017,PASA,34,25) whereas the HMQ used optical sky data from QORG (2004,A&A,427,387) Appendix A. This table was updated by the HEASARC in July 2023 based on a machine-readable catalog obtained from the author's MILLIQUAS website at <a href="https://quasars.org/milliquas.htm">https://quasars.org/milliquas.htm</a>. <p> This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. <p> This research has made use of the SIMBAD database and CDS cross-match service (to obtain Gaia-EDR3 and Pan-STARRS photometry) provided by CDS, Strasbourg, France. <a href="https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad">https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad</a> This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/osrilqxray
- Title:
- Optically Selected Radio-Intermediate and Loud Quasars X-ray Emission Catalog
- Short Name:
- OSRILQXRAY
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog contains some of the results of an investigation into the X-ray properties of radio-intermediate and radio-loud quasars (RIQs and RLQs, respectively). The authors have combined large, modern optical (e.g., SDSS) and radio (e.g., FIRST) surveys with archival X-ray data from Chandra, XMM-Newton, and ROSAT to generate an optically selected sample that includes 188 RIQs and 603 RLQs. This sample is constructed independently of X-ray properties but has a high X-ray detection rate (85%); it provides broad and dense coverage of the luminosity-redshift (l-z) plane, including at high redshifts (22% of the objects have z = 2-5), and it extends to high radio-loudness R<sub>L</sub> values (33% of objects have R<sub>L</sub> = log(L<sub>r</sub>/L<sub>o</sub>) = 3 - 5), where L<sub>r</sub> and L<sub>o</sub> are the rest-frame monochromatic luminosities at 5 GHz and 2500 Angstroms, respectively). The authors measure the "excess" X-ray luminosity of RIQs and RLQs relative to radio-quiet quasars (RQQs) as a function of radio loudness and luminosity, and parametrize the X-ray luminosity of RIQs and RLQs both as a function of optical/UV luminosity and also as a joint function of optical/UV and radio luminosity. RIQs are only modestly X-ray bright relative to RQQs; it is only at high values of radio loudness (R<sub>L</sub> >~ 3.5) and radio luminosity that RLQs become strongly X-ray bright. This HEASARC table contains the primary sample from the reference paper. The authors consider three categories of quasars in this work: RQQs, RIQs, and RLQs (rather than just RQQs and RLQs), where the define RIQs to consist of objects with 1 <= R<sub>L</sub> < 2; consequently, the objects they classify as RLQs satisfy R<sub>L</sub> >= 2. The primary sample contained herein consists of 654 optically selected RIQs and RLQs with SDSS/FIRST observations and high-quality X-ray coverage from Chandra (171), XMM-Newton (202), or ROSAT (281). The primary sample is split nearly evenly between spectroscopic (312) and high-confidence photometric (342) quasars. Most (562) of the primary sample objects possess serendipitous off-axis X-ray coverage, while the remainder (92) were targeted in the observations used in this sample. The X-ray detection fraction for the primary sample is 84%; the detection fraction for those objects with Chandra/XMM-Newton/ROSAT coverage is 95%/92%/70% (typical ROSAT observations are comparatively less sensitive and have higher background). The authors adopt a standard cosmology with H<sub>0</sub> = 70 km s<sup>-1</sup> Mpc<sup>-1</sup>, Omega<sub>M</sub> = 0.3, and Omega<sub>Lambda</sub> = 0.7 throughout their study. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2012 based on CDS Catalog J/ApJ/726/20 file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/romabzcat
- Title:
- Roma-BZCAT Multi-Frequency Catalog of Blazars
- Short Name:
- ROMABZCAT
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the 5th edition of the Roma-BZCAT catalog of blazars which contains coordinates and multi-frequency data of 3561 sources. It presents several relevant changes with respect to the past editions which are briefly described in the reference paper. The Roma-BZCAT catalog contains data on 3561 sources, about 30% more than in the 1st edition, which either confirmed blazars or exhibiting characteristics close to this type of sources. With respect to the previous editions, this new edition has relevant changes in the sources' classification. The authors emphasize that all the sources in the Roma-BZCAT have a detection in the radio band. Moreover, complete spectroscopic information is published and could be accessed by the authors for all of them, with the exception of BL Lac candidates. Consequently, peculiar sources such as the so called "radio quiet BL Lacs", which are reported in some other catalogs, are not included here because of possible contamination by hot stars and other extragalactic objects. In the 5th edition, the authors use a similar denomination for the blazars to that adopted in the previous editions. Each blazar is identified by a code, with 5BZ for all blazars, a fourth letter that specifies the type (B, G, Q or U), followed by the truncated equatorial coordinates (J2000). The authors introduced the edition number before the letters BZ to avoid possible confusion due to the fact that several sources changed their old names because of a newly adopted classification. The 5th edition contains 1151 BZB sources (92 of which are reported as candidates because their optical spectra could not be found in the literature), 1909 BZQ sources, 274 BZG sources, and 227 BZU objects. This database table was originally ingested by the HEASARC in September 2013, based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/495/691">CDS Catalog J/A+A/495/691</a> file bzcat4.dat. It was updated in March 2016, and it is now based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/274">CDS Catalog VII/274</a> file bzcat5.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rassbscpgc
- Title:
- ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog/Catalog of Principal Galaxies Matches
- Short Name:
- RASSBSCPGC
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- In a correlation study of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (RASS-BSC, <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/XI/10">CDS Cat. <XI/10></a>, the HEASARC table RASSBSC) with the Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC, <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/119">CDS Cat. <VII/119></a>, the HEASARC table PGC2003), 904 X-ray sources were found that possess possible extragalactic counterparts within a search radius of 100 arcseconds. A visual screening process was applied to classify the reliability of the correlations. 547 correlations have been quoted as reliable identifications. From these, 349 sources are known to be active galaxies. Although for the other sources no hints for activity were found in the literature, 69% of those for which we have distances show X-ray luminosities exceeding those of normal galaxies, a clear sign that these galaxies also own hitherto unreported X-ray active components. Some objects are located inside or in the direction of a known group or cluster of galaxies. Their X-ray flux may therefore be in part affected by hot gas emission. In the paper, luminosity and log N-log S distributions are used to characterize different subsamples. Nuclei that are both optically and X-ray active are found predominantly in spirals. Two special source samples are defined, one with candidates for X-ray emission from hitherto unknown groups or clusters of galaxies, and one with high X-ray luminosity sources, that are likely candidates to possess hitherto unreported active galactic nuclei. Besides a compilation of X-ray and optical parameters, X-ray overlays on optical images for all the objects are also supplied as part of this work. This table contains 1124 optical galaxy entries for the 904 relevant X-ray candidates/counterparts from the RASS. Besides a compilation of X-ray and optical parameters for each source, the results of an identification screening are also given. The 904 optical images with X-ray overlay contours (xID_nnn.ps.gz) used in the screening process are added for each user's own judgement of the reliability of the associations. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/378/30">CDS catalog J/A+A/378/30</a> file table1.dat, the list of PGC galaxies identified as possible counterparts to RASS Bright Source Catalog X-ray sources. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rass6dfgs
- Title:
- ROSAT All-Sky Survey/6dF Galaxy Survey Catalog of X-Ray Selected AGN
- Short Name:
- RASS6DFGS
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains a catalog of 3405 X-ray sources from the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) Bright Source Catalog which fall within the area covered by the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS). The catalog is count-rate limited at 0.05 ct s<sup>-1</sup> in the X-ray and covers the area of sky with Declination < 0 degrees and |b| > 10 degrees. The RASS-6dFGS sample was one of the additional target catalogs of the 6dFGS and as a result the authors obtained optical spectra for 2224 (65 per cent) RASS sources. Of these, 1715 (77%) have reliable redshifts with a median redshift of z = 0.16 (excluding the Galactic sources). For the optically bright sources (b_J <= 17.5) in the observed sample, over 90% have reliable redshifts. The catalog mainly comprises quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) and active galaxies but also includes 238 Galactic sources. Of the sources with reliable redshifts, the majority are type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN, 69%), while 12% are type 2 AGN, 6% absorption-line galaxies and 13% are stars. The authors also identify a small number of optically faint, very low redshift, compact objects which fall outside the general trend in the b_J - z plane. The RASS-6dFGS catalog complements a number of Northern hemisphere samples, particularly the ROSAT Bright Source Catalogue-NRAO VLA Sky Survey (RBSC-NVSS) sample (Bauer et al. 2000, ApJS, 129, 547), and furthermore, in the same region of sky (-40 degrees < Declination < 0 degrees) reveals an additional 561 sources that were not identified as part of that sample. The authors detect 918 sources (27%) of the RASS-6dFGS sample in the radio using either the 1.4 GHz NVSS or the 843 MHz Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS) catalogues and find that the detection rate changes with redshift. At redshifts larger than 1 virtually all of these sources have radio counterparts and with a median flux density of 1.15 Jy, they are much stronger than the median flux density of 28.6 mJy for the full sample. The authors attribute this to the fact that the X-ray flux of these objects is being boosted by a jet component, possibly Doppler boosted, that is only present in radio-loud AGN. The RASS-6dFGS sample provides a large set of homogeneous optical spectra ideal for future studies of X-ray emitting AGN. This table was created by the HEASARC in April 2010 based on an electronic version of Table 3 from the reference paper obtained from the MNRAS web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/roxa
- Title:
- ROXA (Radio-Optical-X-ray at ASDC) Blazars Catalog
- Short Name:
- ROXA
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Although blazars are a small fraction of the overall AGN population, they are expected to be the dominant population of extragalactic sources in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray bands and have been shown to be the largest contaminant of CMB fluctuation maps. So far the number of known blazars is of the order of several hundreds, but the forthcoming AGILE, GLAST and Planck space observatories will detect several thousand of objects of this type. In preparation for these missions it is necessary to identify new samples of blazars to study their multi-frequency characteristics and statistical properties. The authors have compiled a sample of objects with blazar-like properties via a cross-correlation between large radio (NVSS, ATCAPMN) and X-ray surveys (RASS) using the SDSS-DR4 and 2dF survey data to spectroscopically identify their candidates and test the validity of the selection method. They present the Radio-Optical-X-ray catalog built at ASDC (ROXA), a list of 816 objects among which 510 are confirmed blazars. Only 19% of the candidates turned out to be certainly non-blazars, demonstrating the high efficiency of our selection method. This catalog includes 173 new blazar identifications, or about 10% of all presently known blazars. The relatively high flux threshold in the X-ray energy band (given by the RASS survey) preferentially selects objects with high F_X/F_r ratio, leading to the discovery of new High Energy Peaked BL Lac (HBLs). This catalog therefore includes many new potential targets for GeV-TeV observations. The selection method consisted of three steps: 1) a first cross-correlation between radio and X-ray surveys (the NRAO VLA Sky Survey, ATCAPMN (ATCA catalogue of compact PMN sources) and ROSAT All Sky Survey; 2) for each radio/X-ray match, optical magnitudes were retrieved from the Guide Star Catalog; 3) for all radio/optical/X-ray matches the authors calculated the X-ray to optical (alpha_ox) and radio to optical (alpha_ro) spectral slopes and took only sources with alpha_ox and alpha_ro values within the blazar area. For each object, redshift, B and G magnitudes, radio fluxes at 1.4 GHz and at 5 GHz, X-ray flux, F_X/F_r ratio, X-ray luminosity, radio luminosity, Ca H&K break and classification are given. This table was created by the HEASARC in November 2007 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/472/699">CDS catalog J/A+A/472/699</a> file catalog.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/sdssnbckde
- Title:
- SDSS NBCKDE Catalog of Photometrically Selected Quasar Candidates
- Short Name:
- SDSSNBCKDE
- Date:
- 10 May 2024
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains a catalog of 1,015,082 quasar candidates selected from the photometric imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using a non-parametric Bayesian classification kernel density estimator (NBC-KDE). It excludes 157,075 initial candidates that were culled as known or likely contaminants. The objects are all point sources to a limiting magnitude of i = 21.3 from 8417 deg<sup>2</sup> of imaging from SDSS Data Release 6 (DR6). This sample extends the previous catalog (Paper I: Richards et al. 2004, ApJS, 155, 257) by using the latest SDSS public release data and probing both ultraviolet (UV)-excess and high-redshift quasars. While the addition of high-redshift candidates reduces the overall efficiency (quasars:quasar candidates) of the catalog to ~80%, it is expected to contain no fewer than 850,000 bona fide quasars, which is ~8 times the number of the previous sample and ~10 times the size of the largest spectroscopic quasar catalog. Cross-matching between this photometric catalog and spectroscopic quasar catalogs from both the SDSS and 2dF survey yields 88,879 spectroscopically confirmed quasars. For judicious selection of the most robust UV-excess sources (~500,000 objects in all), the efficiency is nearly 97 - more than sufficient for detailed statistical analyses. The catalog's completeness to type 1 (broad-line) quasars is expected to be no worse than 70%, with most missing objects occurring at z < 0.7 and 2.5 < z < 3.0. In addition to classification information, the authors provide photometric redshift estimates (typically good to Delta(z) +/- 0.3 [2-sigma]) and cross-matching with radio, X-ray, and proper-motion catalogs. Finally, the authors have considered the catalog's utility for determining the optical luminosity function of quasars and are able to confirm the flattening of the bright-end slope of the quasar luminosity function at z ~ 4 as compared to z ~ 2. Much more information on the SDSS is available at the project's web site at <a href="http://www.sdss.org/">http://www.sdss.org/</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC based on an electronic version of Table 1 in the reference paper which was obtained from the ApJ web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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