The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Twelfth data release
dc.contributor.author | Pâris, Isabelle | |
dc.contributor.author | Petitjean, Patrick | |
dc.contributor.author | Ross, Nicholas P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Myers, Adam D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Aubourg, Éric | |
dc.contributor.author | Streblyanska, Alina | |
dc.contributor.author | Bailey, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | Armengaud, Éric | |
dc.contributor.author | Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie | |
dc.contributor.author | Yèche, Christophe | |
dc.contributor.author | Hamann, Fred | |
dc.contributor.author | Strauss, Michael A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Albareti, Franco D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bovy, Jo | |
dc.contributor.author | Bizyaev, Dmitry | |
dc.contributor.author | Niel Brandt, W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Brusa, Marcella | |
dc.contributor.author | Buchner, Johannes | |
dc.contributor.author | Comparat, Johan | |
dc.contributor.author | Croft, Rupert A. C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dwelly, Tom | |
dc.contributor.author | Fan, Xiaohui | |
dc.contributor.author | Font-Ribera, Andreu | |
dc.contributor.author | Ge, Jian | |
dc.contributor.author | Georgakakis, Antonis | |
dc.contributor.author | Hall, Patrick B. | |
dc.contributor.author | Jiang, Linhua | |
dc.contributor.author | Kinemuchi, Karen | |
dc.contributor.author | Malanushenko, Elena | |
dc.contributor.author | Malanushenko, Viktor | |
dc.contributor.author | McMahon, Richard G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Menzel, Marie-Luise | |
dc.contributor.author | Merloni, Andrea | |
dc.contributor.author | Nandra, Kirpal | |
dc.contributor.author | Noterdaeme, Pasquier | |
dc.contributor.author | Oravetz, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Pan, Kaike | |
dc.contributor.author | Pieri, Matthew M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Prada, Francisco | |
dc.contributor.author | Salvato, Mara | |
dc.contributor.author | Schlegel, David J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Schneider, Donald P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Simmons, Audrey | |
dc.contributor.author | Viel, Matteo | |
dc.contributor.author | Weinberg, David H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhu, Liu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-27T22:35:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-27T22:35:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-01-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Twelfth data release 2017, 597:A79 Astronomy & Astrophysics | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-6361 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1432-0746 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1051/0004-6361/201527999 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622879 | |
dc.description.abstract | We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. This catalog includes all SDSS-III /BOSS objects that were spectroscopically targeted as quasar candidates during the full survey and that are confirmed as quasars via visual inspection of the spectra, have luminosities Mi[z = 2] < -20.5 (in a Lambda CDM 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 (FWHM) larger than 500 km s (1) or, if not, have interesting /complex absorption features. The catalog also includes previously known quasars (mostly from SDSS-I and II) that were reobserved by BOSS. The catalog contains 297 301 quasars (272 026 are new discoveries since the beginning of SDSSIII) detected over 9376 deg(2) with robust identification and redshift measured by a combination of principal component eigenspectra. The number of quasars with z > 2.15 (184 101, of which 167 742 are new discoveries) is about an order of magnitude greater than the number of z > 2 : 15 quasars known prior to BOSS. Redshifts and FWHMs are provided for the strongest emission lines (C iv, C III], Mg II). The catalog identifies 29 580 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 together with some information on the optical morphology and the selection criteria. When available, the catalog also provides information on the optical variability of quasars using SDSS and Palomar Transient Factory multi-epoch photometry. 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 3600-10 500 a at a spectral resolution in the range 1300 < R < 2500, can be retrieved from the SDSS Catalog Archive Server. We also provide a supplemental list of an additional 4841 quasars that have been identified serendipitously outside of the superset defined to derive the main quasar catalog. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | PRIN INAF; "Investissements d'Avenir" French Government [ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02]; Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-08-BLAN-0222, ANR-12-BS05-0015]; NASA ADAP [NNX12AE38G]; NSF [1211112, 1515404, AST-1516784]; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; National Science Foundation; US Department of Energy Office of Science; University of Arizona; Brazilian Participation Group; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Florida; French Participation Group; German Participation Group; Harvard University; Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias; Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group; Johns Hopkins University; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics; Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics; New Mexico State University; New York University; Ohio State University; Pennsylvania State University; University of Portsmouth; Princeton University; Spanish Participation Group; University of Tokyo; University of Utah; Vanderbilt University; University of Virginia; University of Washington; Yale University; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Office of Science of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231] | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | EDP SCIENCES S A | en |
dc.relation.url | http://www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527999 | en |
dc.rights | © ESO, 2017. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | catalogs | en |
dc.subject | surveys | en |
dc.subject | quasars: general | en |
dc.title | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Twelfth data release | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.contributor.department | Univ Arizona, Steward Observ | en |
dc.identifier.journal | Astronomy & Astrophysics | en |
dc.description.collectioninformation | This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. | en |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-06-13T05:54:28Z | |
html.description.abstract | We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. This catalog includes all SDSS-III /BOSS objects that were spectroscopically targeted as quasar candidates during the full survey and that are confirmed as quasars via visual inspection of the spectra, have luminosities Mi[z = 2] < -20.5 (in a Lambda CDM 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 (FWHM) larger than 500 km s (1) or, if not, have interesting /complex absorption features. The catalog also includes previously known quasars (mostly from SDSS-I and II) that were reobserved by BOSS. The catalog contains 297 301 quasars (272 026 are new discoveries since the beginning of SDSSIII) detected over 9376 deg(2) with robust identification and redshift measured by a combination of principal component eigenspectra. The number of quasars with z > 2.15 (184 101, of which 167 742 are new discoveries) is about an order of magnitude greater than the number of z > 2 : 15 quasars known prior to BOSS. Redshifts and FWHMs are provided for the strongest emission lines (C iv, C III], Mg II). The catalog identifies 29 580 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 together with some information on the optical morphology and the selection criteria. When available, the catalog also provides information on the optical variability of quasars using SDSS and Palomar Transient Factory multi-epoch photometry. 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 3600-10 500 a at a spectral resolution in the range 1300 < R < 2500, can be retrieved from the SDSS Catalog Archive Server. We also provide a supplemental list of an additional 4841 quasars that have been identified serendipitously outside of the superset defined to derive the main quasar catalog. |