The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Sample Characterization
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Shen, Yue
Hall, Patrick B.
Horne, Keith

Zhu, Guangtun

McGreer, Ian
Simm, Torben
Trump, Jonathan R.

Kinemuchi, Karen

Brandt, W. N.

Green, Paul J.
Grier, C. J.
Guo, Hengxiao
Ho, Luis C.

Homayouni, Yasaman
Jiang, Linhua

Li, Jennifer I-Hsiu
Morganson, Eric
Petitjean, Patrick
Richards, Gordon T.

Schneider, Donald P.
Starkey, D. A.
Wang, Shu
Chambers, Ken
Kaiser, Nick
Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter
Magnier, Eugene
Waters, Christopher
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Univ Arizona, Steward ObservIssue Date
2019-04-15
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We present a detailed characterization of the 849 broad-line quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project. Our quasar sample covers a redshift range of 0.1 < z < 4.5 and is flux-limited to i(PSF) < 21.7 without any other cuts on quasar properties. The main sample characterization includes: (1) spectral measurements of the continuum and broad emission lines for individual objects from the coadded first-season spectroscopy in 2014, (2) identification of broad and narrow absorption lines in the spectra, and (3) optical variability properties for continuum and broad lines from multi-epoch spectroscopy. We provide improved systemic redshift estimates for all quasars and demonstrate the effects of the signal-to-noise ratio on the spectral measurements. We compile measured properties for all 849 quasars along with supplemental multi-wavelength data for subsets of our sample from other surveys. The SDSS-RM sample probes a diverse range in quasar properties and shows well-detected continuum and broad-line variability for many objects from first-season monitoring data. The compiled properties serve as the benchmark for follow-up work based on SDSS-RM data. The spectral fitting tools are made public along with this work.ISSN
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Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; NSF [AST-1715579, AST-1517113, AST-1516784]; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [2017-05983]; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; National Science Foundation; U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science; University of Arizona; Brazilian Participation Group; Brookhaven National Laboratory; University of Cambridge; 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 Universityae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3847/1538-4365/ab074f