A medium-bright quasar sample - New quasar surface densities in the magnitude range from 16.4 to 17.65 for B

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Dec 1984

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters to the Editor (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 287, Dec. 1, 1984, p. L3-L7.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

69

Quasars, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Density Distribution, Hubble Diagram, Surface Properties, Ultraviolet Astronomy

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A new medium-bright quasar sample (MBQS) is constructed from spectroscopic observations of 140 bright objects selected for varying degrees of blue and ultraviolet excess (B-UVX) in five Palomar 1.2 m Schmidt fields. The MBQS contains 32 quasars with B less than 17.65 mag. The new integral surface densities in the B range from 16.45 to 17.65 mag are approximately 40 percent (or more) higher than expected. The MBQS and its redshift distribution increase the area of the Hubble diagram covered by complete samples of quasars. The general spectroscopic results indicate that the three-color classification process used to catalog the spectroscopic candidates (1) has efficiently separated the intrinsically B-UVX stellar objects from the Population II subdwarfs and (2) has produced samples of B-UVX objects which are more complete than samples selected by (U - B) color alone.

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