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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. I. Early Data Release*

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Donald P. Schneider1, Gordon T. Richards1, Xiaohui Fan2, Patrick B. Hall3,4, Michael A. Strauss3, Daniel E. Vanden Berk5, James E. Gunn3, Heidi Jo Newberg6, Timothy A. Reichard1, C. Stoughton5, Wolfgang Voges7, Brian Yanny5, Scott F. Anderson8, James Annis5, Neta A. Bahcall3, Amanda Bauer9, Mariangela Bernardi10, Michael R. Blanton5, William N. Boroski5, J. Brinkmann11, John W. Briggs10, Robert Brunner12, Scott Burles10, Larry Carey8, Francisco J. Castander13, A. J. Connolly14, István Csabai15,16, Mamoru Doi17, Scott Friedman15, Joshua A. Frieman10, Masataka Fukugita2,18, Timothy M. Heckman15, G. S. Hennessy19, Robert B. Hindsley20, David W. Hogg2, Željko Ivezić3, Stephen Kent5, Gillian R. Knapp3, Peter Z. Kunzst15, Donald Q. Lamb10,21, R. French Leger8, Daniel C. Long11, Jon Loveday22, Robert H. Lupton3, Bruce Margon23, Avery Meiksin24, Aronne Merelli12, Jeffrey A. Munn25, Matthew Newcomb26, R. C. Nichol26, Russell Owen8, Jeffrey R. Pier25, Adrian Pope26, Constance M. Rockosi10, David H. Saxe2, David Schlegel3, Walter A. Siegmund8, Stephen Smee15, Yehuda Snir26, Mark SubbaRao10, Alexander S. Szalay15, Aniruddha R. Thakar15, Alan Uomoto15, Patrick Waddell8 and Donald G. York10,21

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We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release that have at least one emission line with a full width at half-maximum larger than 1000 km s-1, luminosities brighter than Mi* = -23, and highly reliable redshifts. The area covered by the catalog is 494 deg2; the majority of the objects were found in SDSS commissioning data using a multicolor selection technique. The quasar redshifts range from 0.15 to 5.03. For each object the catalog presents positions accurate to better than 0farcs2 rms per coordinate, five-band (ugriz) CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.05 mag, radio and X-ray emission properties, and information on the morphology and selection method. Calibrated spectra of all objects in the catalog, covering the wavelength region 3800–9200 Å at a spectral resolution of 1800–2100, are also available. Since the quasars were selected during the commissioning period, a time when the quasar selection algorithm was undergoing frequent revisions, the sample is not homogeneous and is not intended for statistical analysis.


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*  Based on observations obtained with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium.
Keywords

catalogs; quasars: general; surveys


Dates

Issue 2 (2002 February)

Received 2001 August 20, accepted for publication 2001 October 26



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