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High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data. II. The Spring Equatorial Stripe*

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Xiaohui Fan1, Michael A. Strauss1, Donald P. Schneider2, James E. Gunn1, Robert H. Lupton1, Scott F. Anderson3, Wolfgang Voges4, Bruce Margon3, James Annis5, Neta A. Bahcall1, J. Brinkmann6, Robert J. Brunner7,8, Michael A. Carr1, István Csabai7,9, Mamoru Doi10, Joshua A. Frieman5,11, Masataka Fukugita12,13, G. S. Hennessy14, Robert B. Hindsley14, Željko Ivezić1, G. R. Knapp1, D. Q. Lamb11, Timothy A. McKay15, Jeffrey A. Munn16, Heidi Jo Newberg5, A. George Pauls1, Jeffrey R. Pier16, Ron Rechenmacher5, Gordon T. Richards11, Constance M. Rockosi11, Chris Stoughton5, Alexander S. Szalay7, Aniruddha R. Thakar7, Douglas L. Tucker5, Patrick Waddell3 and Donald G. York11

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This is the second paper in a series aimed at finding high-redshift quasars from five-color (u'g'r'i'z') imaging data taken along the Celestial Equator by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) during its commissioning phase. In this paper, we present 22 high-redshift quasars (z > 3.6) discovered from ~250 deg2 of data in the spring Equatorial Stripe, plus photometry for two previously known high-redshift quasars in the same region of the sky. Our success rate in identifying high-redshift quasars is 68%. Five of the newly discovered quasars have redshifts higher than 4.6 (z = 4.62, 4.69, 4.70, 4.92, and 5.03). All the quasars have i* < 20.2 with absolute magnitude -28.8 < MB < -26.1 (h = 0.5, q0 = 0.5). Several of the quasars show unusual emission and absorption features in their spectra, including an object at z = 4.62 without detectable emission lines, and a broad absorption line (BAL) quasar at z = 4.92.


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*  Based on observations obtained with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and with the Apache Point Observatory 3.5 m telescope, which is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium.
Keywords

quasars: general; surveys


Dates

Issue 1 (2000 January)

Received 1999 September 3, accepted for publication 1999 October 11



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