Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-07-24
Chin.J.Astron.Astrophys. 4 (2004) 17-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Chinese Journal of Atronomy & Astrophysics
Scientific paper
With a recently constructed composite quasar spectrum and the \chi^2 minimization technique, we demonstrated a general method to estimate the photometric redshifts of a large sample of quasars by deriving the theoretical color-redshift relations and comparing the theoretical colors with the observed ones. We estimated the photometric redshifts from the 5-band SDSS photometric data of 18678 quasars in the first major data release of SDSS and compare them with the spectroscopic redshifts. The redshift difference is smaller than 0.1 for 47% of quasars and 0.2 for 68 % of them. Based on the calculation of the theoretical color-color diagrams of stars, galaxies and quasars in both the SDSS and BATC photometric systems, we expected that with the BATC system of 15 intermediate filters we would be able to select candidates of high redshift quasars more efficiently than in the SDSS, provided the BATC survey could detect objects with magnitude fainter than 21.
Wu Xue-Bing
Zhang Wanchuan
Zhou Xu
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