The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog II. First Data Release

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2003-08-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308443v1

Astron.J.126:2579,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

41 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables; accepted by AJ. FITS and ASCII versions of the catalog can be obtained from http://www.sdss.o

Scientific paper

10.1086/379174

We present the second edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of 16713 objects in the SDSS First Data Release (DR1) that have luminosities larger than M_i=-22 (H_0=70 km/s, Omega_M=0.3, Omega_Lambda=0.7), have at least one emission line with FWHM larger than 1000 km/s, and have highly reliable redshifts. The area covered is ~1360 deg^2 and the redshifts range from 0.08 to 5.41, with a median value of 1.43. Each object has positions accurate to better than 0.2" rms per coordinate, five-band (ugriz) CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.03 mag, and information on the morphology and selection method, in addition to radio, near-infrared, and X-ray emission properties of the quasars, when available, from other large area surveys. Calibrated digital spectra covering 3800-9200 Angstroms at a spectral resolution 1800-2100, are available. This publication supersedes the first SDSS Quasar Catalog, which was based on material from the SDSS Early Data Release. A summary of corrections to current quasar databases is provided. The majority of the objects were found in SDSS commissioning data using a multicolor selection technique. Since the quasar selection algorithm was undergoing testing during the entire DR1 observational period, care must be taken when assembling samples for use in statistical studies. A total of 15786 objects (94%) in the catalog were discovered by the SDSS; 12,173 of which are reported here for the first time, including five quasars brighter than i=16.0 and 17 quasars with redshifts larger than 4.5.

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